A new book ambitiously yet modestly attempts to trace the international appeal and development of communist thought.

May Day provides a good chance tocatch up on the history of the communist movement.

The fact that Vladimir Putin and his colleagues have chosen to celebrate Stalinist imperialism tells us a good deal about their vision of their country's future.

That the London killers were native Brits surprised a lot of people, which is testimony to our capacity to forget our own history.

When Lane Kirkland died last month, the cause of freedom lost one of its most stalwart proponents.

The recent democratization of Central Europe helps show how Iraq can shed its autocratic Ba'ath party legacy.

After a century of Lenin, Stalin, Mao, and Pol Pot, surely we have learned that far from constituting a leap "from the kingdom of necessity to the kingdom of freedom," as Marx put it, revolution has more often been a leap into a bottomless abyss of human suffering.

The problems facing the French economy.