China

Hong Kong: A new Iron Curtain

2020-05-23
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China’s recently announced “security law” in Hong Kong further subjugates the city to mainland rule. The mainland leftists understand that the dissent in Hong Kong is not going to die down by itself. If left unchecked, these kinds of “pro-democracy” protests (which are…
socialism

Solzhenitsyn trashes socialism at Harvard, 1978

2020-05-21
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The Russian dissident Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, author of “The Gulag Archipelago,” and 1970 Nobel laureate, in a 1978 speech at Harvard. https://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/alexandersolzhenitsynharvard.htm The speech is wide-ranging and some of it I agree with and some I don’t.…