As only he could, famed Soviet war correspondent Vasily Grossman, himself a son of Ukraine, evoked the brutal and bloody reality of war in his tireless work while following the fortunes of the Red Army on the Eastern Front during WWII. Grossman: The head of the driver of a heavy…

The one thing upon which the world’s major religions and most schools of philosophy are agreed are the perils and evil of human greed. Unfortunately, there are some people who didn’t get this particular memo. Take the Waltons, for example, the family behind the Walmart retail empire. According to the…

Few writers understood America’s racist soul as keenly as Richard Wright (pictured above), and few used their pen as mercilessly as he did as a weapon to excoriate and expose it. In black heavyweight champion and ring legend, Joe Louis, Wright found the perfect symbol of black resistance to the…

In his epic and comprehensive work, The Second World War, Anthony Beevor writes with customary economy: On 27 January in the middle of the afternoon, a reconnaissance patrol from the 107th Rifle Division (attached to the Red Army’s 60th Army of the 1st Belorussian Front) emerged from a snowbound forest…

Auschwitz-Birkenau In his epic and comprehensive work, The Second World War, Anthony Beevor writes with customary economy: On 27 January in the middle of the afternoon, a reconnaissance patrol from the 107th Rifle Division (attached to the Red Army’s 60th Army of the 1st Belorussian Front) emerged from a snowbound…

The fundamental root cause of the ongoing brutal and tragic conflict in Ukraine is not Russian aggression, it is NATO aggression, reminding us that the latter’s disbandment is a non-negotiable condition of a world in which the triumph of peace and stability over chaos and conflict is at long last…

“The truth is rarely pure and never simple.” So said Oscar Wilde and so describes the life and legacy of Britain’s most famous and revered leader, Winston Churchill, a political giant who wore his racism and imperialism proudly. On, this, the anniversary of his death, let us take a short…

The clamour to escalate rather than de-escalate the conflict in Ukraine rather has reached the status of a fine madness in staterooms and the corridors of power in the West. The result is that never has the world come this close to nuclear armageddon since the Cuban Missile Crisis of…

The destruction and disintegration of Yugoslavia in the 1990s, culminating in the 78-day air waged by NATO against Serbia and its people in 1999, during which thousands were killed and wounded, was a crime breathtaking in its open violation of international law and the UN Charter. It was the very…