Tag: Cold War

War Secretary Pete Hegseth speaks to reporters at a press conference at the White House on April 6.

Beltway Confidential

Why the US-Indonesia defense pact is a big deal

Sean Durns · April 15, 2026 1:58 pm

Leon Trotsky, a Russian revolutionary and rival of Joseph Stalin, assassinated in 1940.

Trotsky’s fatal conceit

Carson Becker · March 27, 2026 4:44 am

Mao Zedong in 1966. (Apic/Getty Images)

How China turned red

Sean Durns · March 13, 2026 6:07 am

The Hollywood Sign is seen in Los Angeles

Opinion (Restoring America)

Winning the culture with the anti-communist film festival

Mark Judge · March 6, 2026 6:00 am

The U.S. hockey team pounces on goalie Jim Craig after a 4-3 victory against the Soviet Union in a medal round match at the the 1980 Winter Olympics.

We could use another Miracle on Ice

David Harsanyi · February 20, 2026 2:00 pm

Peter White Public Library in Marquette, Michigan is hosting âBanned Book Weekâ Sept. 18-24.

New novel uses multiple voices to talk ‘banned books,’ blasting liberals

Mark Judge · February 10, 2026 2:00 pm

Chinese President Xi Jinping raises his glass to toasts after speaking at the National Day Reception at the Great Hall of the People on the eve of the 76th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China in Beijing, Tuesday, Sept. 30, 2025. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)

A ‘new world order’ is here, and it’s here to stay

Sean Durns · February 4, 2026 2:00 pm

Atomic bomb explosion over Nagasaki, 1945. (trumanlibrary.gov)

A Nuke Hope: Review of ‘The Nuclear Age’ by Serhii Plokhy

Andrew Fagal · January 9, 2026 3:57 am

Conservative author Norman Podhoretz (James Keyser/Getty Images)

Norman Podhoretz, 1930-2025

Daniel Ross Goodman · January 2, 2026 12:05 am

Tech billionaires Michael Dell (L) and Susan Dell join U.S. President Donald Trump to make an announcement about "Trump accounts" in the Roosevelt Room at the White House on December 02, 2025 in Washington, DC. The Dells are contributing $6.25 billion of their own money to the program, which aims to have the government provide $1,000 in seed money for investment accounts that will be granted to children born in the next four years. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Dell teaches an anti-socialist lesson

Hugo Gurdon · December 5, 2025 6:10 am

Nuclear reactors

Trump’s resurrection of the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant

David Harsanyi · November 28, 2025 2:00 pm

A Russian soldier fires a 152 mm howitzer 2A65 Msta-B toward a Ukrainian position in an undisclosed location in Ukraine.

Beltway Confidential

Cold War history shows how the Ukraine war may end

John Roberts · September 4, 2025 6:00 am