Lessons from History
The Pandemic and a Free Press

History shows that for the world’s autocrats, some control over the media is never enough—and COVID-19 offers dangerous new pretexts for consolidating their power.

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Lessons from History
Victor Klemperer and the Decay of Political Language

The wartime scholar and diarist lived an extraordinary life—and bore witness to the degradation of political rhetoric in ways that still resonate today.

Lessons from History
When Immigration and Affirmative Action Collide

Mass immigration and widespread affirmative action are deeply in tension, and ultimately set to destroy one another.

Lessons from History
Breaking at NYT: Communists Were Anti-American Soviet Tools

It will be interesting to read the pieces that come out 25 to 50 years too late as the august Gray Lady awakens to other important news.

Lessons from History
This Fourth of July, Remember the Seventh of March

Daniel Webster’s poignant brief for a Republic threatened with dismemberment just two generations after its founding.

Lessons from History
NYT Worries: Babies from Poor Mothers Are Expensive

The roots of the birth control movement in eugenics is one of the dirty secrets of modern progressivism.

Lessons from History
Donald Trump’s New World Order

What a Kissinger-inspired strategy might look like.

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