History

Mao: Worse Than Stalin and Hitler 3
- History, Featured
- November 11, 2024
American schoolchildren learn about Hitler and, possibly, Stalin, but few know much about Mao. And yet, while Hitler and Stalin were deplorable, Mao murdered far more people than either of his European counterparts—and his tactics have made their way to the United States. Mao Zedong was born in a rural village in 1893, but he
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Solzhenitsyn, Lysenkoism, and the Lies of the Revolution 2
- History, Featured
- November 5, 2024
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn was the most important Soviet dissident, but his message was accessible to all. On the day before he was sent into exile in 1974, he published a short essay entitled “Live Not By Lies.” It only takes him a few pages to lay out the most effective strategy for resisting totalitarianism. As Solzhenitsyn
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Why Do Traditionalists Idolize the 1950s?28
- Culture, Featured, History, MomThink
- October 29, 2024
I don’t think it would be a shock to anyone to point out that traditionalists often romanticize, even idolize, 1950s American culture. Why? I think the allure lies in nostalgia, even nostalgia for a time we’ve never experienced. It’s easy to romanticize an era which we think embodies our values and lifestyle dreams. In reality,
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The Euro-American Roots of Pumpkin Spice 10
- Culture, Featured, History, MomThink
- October 28, 2024
Pumpkin spice and everything nice, that’s what basic white girls are made of! She’s wearing plaid, cute boots, and walking through autumn leaves to a pumpkin patch or apple orchard. And most importantly, come mid-October, she’s unabashedly carrying the unmistakable takeout coffee cup filled with pumpkin spice latte. She is also hailed as laughable, ditzy,
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Keeping Courage, Resisting Groupthink: The Great Escape of Mary Queen of Scots 2
- History, Culture, Featured
- October 24, 2024
For a teenage boy like Willy Douglas, there was bound to be something appealing about the tall, beautiful, spirited, and forsaken 24-year-old queen imprisoned in Lochleven Castle, which lay on an island in the middle of a gray lake in lowland Scotland. Is it any wonder that 16-year-old Willy and his 18-year-old cousin George set
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Why Dengism Matters for America 2
- History, Featured, Politics
- October 21, 2024
Former Chinese dictator Deng Xiaoping is little known in the West, but his ideas should be common knowledge. He developed a new political-economic model for China, one often called “authoritarian developmentalism,” that helped hundreds of millions of people escape grinding poverty. However, “Dengism” maintained the Communist Party’s firm grip on society—and Western countries are starting
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