February 23, 2021

The Oligarchs, the Courtiers, and the Others

The elites, broken down into their respective niches.

May 3, 2020

Nationalism, America style

Nationalism tends to sport its particular flavor depending on who champions and shapes it.  In our case, it is democratic nationalism that makes us exceptional

February 22, 2020

Life Under ISIS

An American journalist has gifted us with gruelingly realistic war vignettes of the Islamic State from Iraq’s second most populous city. 

February 9, 2020

Putin’s Auschwitz Disinformation

The Russian strongman has been bringing up some old canards about Poland.

December 1, 2019

RIP: Vladimir Bukovsky, the Defiant

He started asking questions. He challenged the system. And he bothered the hell out of the Soviets.

November 15, 2018

Poland Celebrated Nationalism as Macron Derided it

While we wait for European self-loathing to burn itself out, we should not neglect our true best-friends-forever on the continent, the Poles, who experienced history intensely in the 20th century and do not want a repeat of that in the current one.

March 12, 2018

The Holy Cross Brigade Got a Bad Rap

The Polish fighting group has been maligned as sympathetic to the Nazis.  The truth is quite different.

February 9, 2018

The Holocaust, the Poles, and World War II Memory

An unexpected international uproar has blown up concerning a Polish attempt to battle an old slander.

December 7, 2015

Washington Post writer bungles Poland

An anti-communist, post-communist political party triumphs in Polish elections, and the Washington Post wheels out the smear machine.

December 23, 2014

Cuba Libre

Nonrecognition gave free Cubans hope that, first, the world’s leading power identified with their plight, and, second, that freedom was a universal norm that the United States would never compromise on. That policy is no more.