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Since the collapse of the Berlin wall and the Soviet Union, many on the left seem to have swallowed the idea that there is no alternative to capitalism.

The scene with which The Good Citizen opens could have been lifted straight from a Norman Rockwell painting.

The recent arrest in Israel of eight apocalyptic cult members, who reportedly planned to take their own lives at the millennium or provoke authorities into killing them, revealed that yet an

What price is Poland paying for its Stalinist heritage?

History may not have come to a stop in 1989, but the public is still under the spell of the counterpoint in Francis Fukuyama's famous exercise in propaganda: Capitalism is eternal because there i

Let's start with the Random House press release, replete with
"Praise
for Perjury"--a reissue of Allen Weinstein's book
on
the Hiss-Chambers case.

Staughton Lynd, although he would never admit it, is one of the visible
saints of the modern American left.