Arch Puddington

As goes Trump, so goes the conservative movement.

The Cartoons That Shook the World

Democracy Without Borders

AUGUST MARKS THE TWENTY-fifth anniversary of Solidarity, the Polish trade union that played so central a role in the defeat of communism. Celebrations will take place in Warsaw and Gdansk, the spiritual home of the Polish revolution. Lech Walesa and other heroes of the struggle against communism…

ON NOVEMBER 28, the Broadcasting Board of Governors announced a decision that effectively closes down Radio Free Europe. The board eliminated practically all of the historic RFE broadcast services, leaving only a South Slavic service that was added after the end of the Cold War, during the later…

Operation Rollback

EACH YEAR organizations that monitor press freedom record hundreds of cases in which journalists are beaten, terrorized, or murdered in the line of duty. The motives are sometimes economic, more often political. But the incidents are usually forgotten -- regrettably, few know the names of the 40 or…

IF THERE IS ANYTHING to complain about in the selection of Doctors Without Borders for this year's Nobel Peace Prize, it is the timing. The group should have received the honor 15 years ago, when its volunteers were repairing the shattered limbs of Afghan victims of Soviet land mines and treating…

This past July, Human Rights Watch issued a report claiming that police brutality is "one of the most serious, enduring, and divisive human rights violations in the United States." The report is startling in at least two respects. First, Human Rights Watch usually trains its sights on the world's…

Thirty years ago, the New Left launched its long march through the institutions of American society. The record of subsequent years is not unimpressive. The generation of student radicals that once heaped scorn on the work ethic has advanced steadily to positions of influence in the universities,…

Bernard Lefkowitz

In 1968, I attended a Black Power rally in Austin, Texas, at which the most popular slogans were "Arm Yourself or Harm Yourself" and the simple but effective "Get Guns." Today the words sound absurd. But remember: That same year, riots broke out in scores of American cities in the wake of the…