The Radios

by | Mar 17, 2025 | Journalism, Journalists, Russia, Ukraine

Last year, Jay Nordlinger wrote at NRO: Many years ago, as the Soviet Union was expiring and Eastern Europe was shaking free, Lech Wałęsa was asked what the “radios” — Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty — had meant to Poland. He answered, “Would there be an earth...

Reagan and Ukraine

by | Mar 1, 2025 | Foreign Policy, Russia, Ukraine

Ronald Reagan, July 17, 1987: Our Nation offers the world a vision of inalienable political, religious, and economic rights. This vision has always been shared among peoples subjugated by Soviet imperialism; and so has resistance, ever the catalyst of liberty. Today,...

Reagan on the Men in the Kremlin

by | Feb 25, 2025 | Reagan, Russia

The President’s News Conference January 29, 1981 Now, as long as they do that and as long as they, at the same time, have openly and publicly declared that the only morality they recognize is what will further their cause, meaning they reserve unto themselves...

Reagan on Appeasement

by | Feb 19, 2025 | Foreign Policy, Reagan, Russia

Ronald Reagan, 1983: It was C. S. Lewis who, in his unforgettable “Screwtape Letters,” wrote: “The greatest evil is not done now in those sordid ‘dens of crime’ that Dickens loved to paint. It is not even done in concentration camps and...