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July 2026

July 31, 2026

An Inside Look at the Democratic Socialists of America

Jake Altman used to be a member of the Democratic Socialists of America from the...

July 30, 2026

Yes, the Democratic Socialists Really Are Communists

The Democratic Socialists of America have released a new platform. And the organization is quite...

August 2025

August 05, 2025

The Persistence of Communism

A historian argues that the essence of communism is not economics but "a totalitarian imperative...

April 2025

April 29, 2025

Learning from a Communist

The Italian communist Antonio Gramsci said that "politics is downstream of culture," so that the...

October 2024

October 15, 2024

Garbage Time

The metaphor of "garbage time"--when the game is basically over, but you have to play...

July 2024

July 10, 2024

Solzhenitsyn’s Conversion

The Russian novelist Alexander Solzhenitsyn's "The Gulag Archipelago" exposed the evils of Soviet Communism by...

June 2024

June 12, 2024

Degrowth Communism

According to Kohei Saito, capitalism creates economic growth, which puts ever-more carbon into the atmosphere. ...

May 2023

May 22, 2023

Monday Miscellany 5/22/23

A congressional staffer embracing Communism (including the brutal bits); advocating gun control while being soft...

April 2023

April 26, 2023

Lutherans Under Communism

My review of "The Gates of Hell" by Matthew Heise, about the persecution of Lutherans...

December 2022

December 12, 2022

An Alliance between the New Right and Marxism?

Some Marxists are seeing the working class populism of Donald Trump's supporters as today's expression...

October 2021

October 01, 2021

China’s Revival of Communism

The Chinese government, having achieved prosperity by emulating Capitalism, has started cracking down on its...

August 2021

August 13, 2021

A Religion That Tried Too Hard to Blend into the Culture

A historian writes about the attempt of some Buddhists in the Soviet Union to change...

June 2021

June 23, 2021

“Even North Korea Isn’t This Nuts”

Yeonmi Park escaped from the crushing oppression of North Korea, only to find the same...

February 2021

February 23, 2021

The African Bonhoeffer

John Ehrett, seeing the problems with the dominant political theologies, sees a way forward in...

October 2019

October 03, 2019

Whatever Happened to Anti-Communism?

During the Cold War, Americans were united in opposing communism. Chinese communism is more successful...

August 2019

August 02, 2019

A Catholic Defense of Communism

The Jesuit magazine America has published an article entitled The Catholic Case for Communism. Its...

July 2019

July 25, 2019

A Modern Lutheran Martyr

Ernst Lohmeyer (1890-1946) was a Lutheran pastor and scholar in Hitler's Germany. He opposed the Nazis--particularly...

August 2018

August 09, 2018

What China Is Doing to Religion

It's one thing for a government to ban religion and to persecute religion. That's what...

July 2018

July 02, 2018

Communism Is Back in Fashion

As progressives are moving further and further to the left, some are not stopping at...

June 2018

June 13, 2018

Watch and Discuss the Video Trump Showed to Kim Jong-Un

At President Trump's summit meeting with North Korean dictator Kim Jong-Un, our president showed him...

May 2018

May 07, 2018

And Now, American Red Guards

How far is the Left going in the United States? We now have American Maoists...

May 04, 2018

The 200th Birthday of Karl Marx

May 5 is the 200th birthday of Karl Marx. Seldom have the ideas of one...

November 2017

November 08, 2017

The 100th Anniversary of Communism

Having recognized the 500th anniversary of the Reformation, we now need to turn to another...

October 2017

October 30, 2017

China’s Communists Plan to Replace the U.S. as the World’s Superpower

We have our national elections every two years, with our presidential election every four years. ...

May 2017

May 12, 2017

The religious comeback after Communist atheism

A study by Pew Research shows the massive failure of Soviet atheism. In the 18...

December 2016

December 31, 2016

Anniversaries in 2017

The new year will mark some important anniversaries. The biggest will be the 500th anniversary...

November 2016

November 28, 2016

Fidel Castro is dead

Fidel Castro died at the age of 90, outlasting most of his Cold War adversaries....

October 2016

October 27, 2016

Don’t know much about history

A study has found that quite a few young Americans are open to Communism. And one...

May 2015

May 07, 2015

How the KGB created Liberation Theology

Liberation Theology, which teaches that Christianity demands radical social and economic change, is a major...

March 2015

March 16, 2015

The Twelve Principles of Conservatism (from 1960)

I blogged about the death of M. Stanton Evans, one of whose accomplishments was to...