Some 80 years ago, Roosevelt and Churchill were at their meeting with Stalin. Thirty years later, the Helsinki Accords helped doom the Iron Curtain. Here’s what we can learn on their anniversaries.
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Don’t Let Putin’s War Break the UN
Russia’s Security Council veto helps protect its savage war in Ukraine. But a look at the founding of the world body shows why giving Moscow that power is worth it.
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No, Russia’s Ukraine Invasion Isn’t “Our Fault”
Russia’s aggression stems from its history and political culture, not NATO expansion or the post–Cold War settlement.
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Memo to Democrats: Tie Putin to Trump
The carnage in Ukraine must be laid at the former president’s doorstep.
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Donald Trump Isn’t the First Leader With a Personality Cult
White House staffers create an over-the-top image of Trump that is plainly at odds with reality. It’s eerily similar to the cult of Joseph Stalin.
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Putting the Mind Over What Matters
In Saul Bellow’s Humboldt’s Gift there is a scene where the crazy poet-hero, Von Humboldt Fleisher, now widely known as Delmore Schwartz a clef tells his protege Charlie Citrine about his hopes and dreams for the presidency of Adlai Stevenson. “If you could believe Humboldt (and I couldn’t),” says Charlie, “Stevenson was Aristotle’s great-souled man. In his […]
