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- WILLIAM F. BUCKLEY JR.--"Bill" to that half of the world he knew personally--was the star of many odd and significant stories. In two of the oddest and most significant stories involving him, however, Bill was not the central figure at all but one of history's "extras." The better known...
- Research articles 2008-03-24
- Doris Lessing wins: but not, of course, for the right reasons
- TELEVISION has its moments, and one of them was a few days ago when an unsuspecting Doris Lessing returned home from the shops to find the press assembled in front of her house, and hear that she had just won the Nobel Prize. "Oh Christ!" was her immediate reaction. She...
- Research articles 2007-11-05
- A goddess for victims: the Victims of Communism Memorial comes to fruition
- A DOZEN years ago, Lev Dobriansky and Lee Edwards met with National Park Service official John Parsons to learn what it takes to build a public memorial in Washington, D.C. Parsons gave them a document that outlined a 24-step program--a long march that included congressional permission, site selection, design approval,...
- Research articles 2007-05-28
- Myth of the Invincible Terrorist, The
- WE ARE IN A hard march in rough country. The "Global War on Terrorism" requires patience and perseverance, and yet notes of pessimism have become audible among our ranks as citizen-soldiers. This is not surprising. After five years we still have not caught up with fugitive Osama bin Laden. Hard-working...
- Research articles 2007-04-01
- House members arguing against PNTR
- Joe Moakley (D-Mass.): If we do not reconsider [China's trade] status every year, we are going to lose what little chance we have of effecting any change in China. China needs to change. If we grant the Chinese government permanent normal trade relations, we will be giving away what little...
- Research articles 2006-12-15
- The annals of Jonathan Brent: one man and a great publishing project
- FOR those who are wearily familiar with the Left's control of higher education, it will come as no surprise to learn that Bard College in New York is home to the Visiting Alger Hiss Professor of History and Literature--an endowed chair named after one of the most notorious traitors in...
- Research articles 2006-05-22
- President Bush has been reading the mammoth, powerful new biography of Mao—Mao: The Unknown Story, by Jung Chang and Jon Halliday—and Elisabeth Bumiller of the New York Times had something to say about that
- President Bush has been reading the mammoth, powerful new biography of Mao--Mao: The Unknown Story, by Jung Chang and Jon Halliday--and Elisabeth Bumiller of the New York Times had something to say about that. She said that it was no surprise that Bush had been reading this book "given that...
- Research articles 2006-02-13
- Proles and polls; Philosophy.(Britons seem about to vote Marx history's greatest philosopher)
- A spectre haunts the BBC "DEMOCRACY is the road to socialism", wrote Karl Marx: Britons seem to agree. Communism is in disarray these days, but BBC listeners have put its top brain at the front of a poll to find history's greatest philosopher....
- Research articles 2005-06-25
- When bureaucracy trumps excellence: in Eastern Europe, journalists struggle to find their footing.(Journalist's Trade)
- It's been two years since I returned from the republic of Slovenia. I still yearn for the scale and beauty of the land and the warmth and strength of its people. As for the remnants of its Soviet bureaucracy--that I can do ...
- Research articles 2005-06-22
- McCarthyism: political repression and the fear of communism
- THE 28-YEAR-OLD SEAMAN WAS PUZZLED. LAWRENCE PARKER HAD BEEN forced off his job as a waiter on the S.S. President Cleveland in February 1951 as a "poor security risk," but had not been told why. This was not the first time he had been barred from the waterfront under the...
- Research articles 2004-12-22
- Liberal hawk down.(Book Review)
- THE FIGHT IS FOR DEMOCRACY: Winning the War of Ideas in America and the World. Edited by George Packer. HarperCollins. 304 pp. Paper $13.95. PROGRESSIVE INTERNATIONALISM: A Democratic National Security Strategy. By Ronald D. Asmus et al. The Progressive Policy Institute. ...
- Research articles 2004-10-25
- Falsely accused: cold war liberalism reassessed.
- During the crucial years of the Great Fear the most influential ... faction of the American intelligentsia ... abandoned the critical function that all intellectuals in all countries ought to sustain toward government agencies and government actions.... ...
- Research articles 2004-06-22
- Fools for Communism: still apologists after all these years
- In Denial: Historians, Communism and Espionage, by John Earl Haynes and Harvey Klehr, San Francisco: Encounter Books, 300 pages, $25.95 IN 1983 THE INDIANA University historian Robert F. Byrnes collected essays from 35 experts on the Soviet Union--the cream of American academia--in a book titled After Brezhnev. Their conclusion:...
- Research articles 2004-04-01
- Gorbymania! Former Soviet dictator Mikhail Gorbachev enjoys global celebrity status unmatched by any other ex-political leader. But is he a prophet of world peace or a dangerous Pied Piper?
- There are many pretenders to fame who are, as Clint Eastwood's Dirty Harry would say, legends in their own minds. Then there is Mikhail Gorbachev, who is a legend of mythic proportions in the minds of countless millions. He is lionized as the man who ended the Cold War. Or,...
- Research articles 2003-11-03
- Decolonisation, modernisation and nation-building: political development theory and the appeal of Communism in Southeast Asia, 1945-1975.
- Introduction: ideologies of Western dominance and ideologies of modernisation Michael Adas, in his important study of 'ideologies of Western dominance', questions the idea that the influential theories of modernisation that emerged during the late colonial and early Cold War periods were 'primarily' new...
- Research articles 2003-10-01
- Geography matters: Kohonen classification of determinants of foreign direct investment in transition economies
- Abstract This exploratory study examines the extent to which non-spatial determinants of foreign direct investment FDI organize themselves in a manner that mimics the spatial proximity of twenty-five Eurasian transition economies. The Kohonen algorithm is used to create a self-organizing map SOMs of a data set that features vectors...
- Research articles 2003-03-22
- The left and 9/11: the war on terror has ignited a fiery debate that shows no signs of abating. (Articles).
- Since the September 11 attacks, it's become a cliche to say that the left is divided over American foreign policy. But "divided" doesn't begin to capture the diversity of opinion about the war in Afghanistan and the war on terror--or, for that matter, the inner conflicts...
- Research articles 2002-09-23
- Hollander's Clear Eye. - 'Discontents: Postmodern and Postcommunist' - book review
- Discontents: Postmodern & Postcommunist, by Paul Hollander (Transaction, 430 pp., $39.95) When you call the roll of the anti-Communists, you start with the great dissidents, leading off, almost surely, with Solzhenitsyn. Then, at some point, you turn to the scholars and writers in the West who told the truth...
- Research articles 2002-04-22
- An illusion of omnipotence: U.S. policy toward Guatemala, 1954-1960
- ABSTRACT Based primarily on declassified U.S. government documents, this study analyzes the U.S. effort to build a "showcase for democracy" in Guatemala following the U.S.-engineered regime change of 1954. The effort was doomed, for the U.S. government lacked both unity of purpose and the necessary continuous commitment at the top....
- Research articles 2002-04-01
- Truman, Harry S.
- Harry S. Truman Harry S. Truman THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS HARRY S. TRUMAN of Independence, Missouri, once remarked that three experiences prepared a man for high political office—farming, banking, and the army. By the time he...
- Research articles 2002-01-01
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