“Ideology—that is what gives evildoing its long-sought justification and gives the evildoer the necessary steadfastness and determination …” An apropos quote from The Gulag Archipelago by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, a longtime prisoner of the gulag and dissident from Soviet Russia. The insights that we have today from the Cold War, whether Soviet gulag prisoners or those struck down in the hysteria of McCarthyism, have become crucially important in the United States of late, as T

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Today, the 15th March, marks the anniversary of the death of Julius Caesar in 44 BCE. Caesars death was followed by civil war and the...

The last decade has been a transformative one globally; whether it is the rise of a new multipolar order transforming our geopolitical...

Godzina W  (Hour W) was the codename for 5pm, on the 1st of August 1944. 80 years ago, on that day, and on that hour, the Polish...