Putin’s Stalinist playbook
The Russian leader has eschewed Lenin in favor of a more familiar figure
Soviet union
Thursday
America’s long history of sitting out Russian invasions
From Hungary in 1956 to Czechoslovakia in 1968, we’ve often chided but rarely intervened
Tuesday
Russia is the lost great power
Had the West embraced Moscow after the Cold War, Putin might not be menacing Ukraine today
Monday
How working from home threatens authoritarian regimes
Can the Chinese monitor their own citizens when they aren’t out and about all day?
Wednesday
China is the new evil empire
Just as the Soviet Union once tried to replace freedom with authoritarianism, so too does Beijing today
Friday
Biden builds back in the USSR
CNN lobs him softballs and he still can’t remember Kyrsten Sinema’s name
Wednesday
Joe Biden and the grand battle of ideas
At his press conference in reaction to the fall of Kabul, Biden sounded Trumpian
Thursday
Georgians on my mind
Amphora euphoria
Thursday
Biden’s Brezhnev vibes
Is the presumptive President-elect the candidate of American stagnation?
Tuesday
Olivia de Havilland’s Red Scare
She was not an anti-communist in spite of being a liberal, she was an anti-communist because she was a liberal
Friday
From letter to worse
Platform-envy drives the Harper’s counter-letter
Sunday
Gorbachev’s war and peace
Meeting Gorbachev reviewed
