Boris Berezovsky on the state of denial in Russia today: It is a well-known historical fact that the Soviet Union’s victory over Nazi Germany constituted a replacement of Nazi oppression with Communist enslavement for Eastern European countries – an enslavement that lasted for 45 years, far longer than Nazism. Therefore, the defeat that Putin’s Russia… Continue reading
Michael Barone: Today’s 21-year-old was 3 when the Berlin Wall came down; his or her parents were born well after World War II. Unlike people who lived through the experience of 1914-1918 or 1939-1945, they have no reason to draw the conclusion that everything can-and sometimes does-go terribly wrong. It is tempting to turn your… Continue reading
You know…six years is not a long time to someone in their 30s or 40s. You remember holding the little girl, giving her a bottle, changing her pampers. Next thing you know, she’s doing stuff like this:
It’s only round two, but I sense already that Christopher Hitchens (to my surprise and disappointment) doesn’t have the belly for it.
Rod Dreher: Lucas, my three-year-old, at prayer the other night: “Dear God, please help the peoples in Iraq … and California … and, and … at Home Depot.” I can go one better: my three-year-old daughter during her bedtime prayers: “God Bless mommy, God bless daddy…(followed by a long list of cousins) and God bless… Continue reading