Why did the Bolsheviks triumph over the anti-communists? Why did the Communist regimes collapse in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, but not in China? Why did the Soviet Union join the Allies? Why did the Catholics dislike Communism, and did this help John F. Kennedy get elected? W...
When the Korean War began in 1950, President Harry Truman and General Douglas MacArthur on what they should try to achieve. While MacArthur largely wanted to take over northern Korea, Truman favored a limited war, one with the limited objective of containing communism....
Because during the 16th and the 17thcentury, Chinese people got in touch with Europeans. They had some wars. Chinese lost some battles, but they did not care much because they regarded Europeans, too, as “Yidi”, not very different from the previous foreigners they fought with around central...
The alluring appeal of communism where everybody works for the public good instead of for the selfish reasons encouraged by capitalism resulted in Stalin murdering over 20 million people (New York Times), Mao murdering over 45 million people (Washington Post), and countless other people living i...
The negative cult thought they were resisting the man, but everything they did reeked of complicity. Obsessing over his every movement, freaking out under every one of his tweets. They ate up his turds one by one, greedily, smacking their lips, and then proclaimed: this shit is awful, it...
one of the most mysterious and complicated end-of-romance tales of the 20th century, as well as the most dispiriting. The Beatles hadn’t just made music – they had made their times, as surely as any political force, and more beneficently than most. Why, then, did the Beatles walk ...
s political system and from these candidates we vote for the ones we prefer, or at least dislike the least. Once elected, far from being forced to represent the interests of the majority, politicians can, and frequently do, serve their own interests. Or as Frank Karsten and Karel Beckman ...
“By 1941 [the Japanese] were ready to take on the white world in war, and they truly did not care anymore what the white man thought of them,” wrote American author Gavan Dawes in his 1994 bookPrisoners of the Japanese. “They had torn the Geneva Convention to pieces. White men coul...
If Republicanism isn’t about opposing the Federal Income Tax and the Federal Reserve System, just what did the party ever stand for to begin with? When it comes to foreign policy, the last century is one of “Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace”. Taft speaks directly to this point: ...
wouldn’t dream of moving there. It felt like going into a time machine and not in a good way. Luckily I haven’t dealt with as many scams from locals nor as much xenophobia as I did in Thailand but maybe I’m lucky. For me, honestly the worst thing here has been the other ...