Four hundred years after the battles of Lepanto on October 7, 1571, and Vienna on September 11-12, 1683, these dates still rankle in the jihadist mind. For it was through these battles that the navies and armies of the West threw back almost fatal attacks on their civilization. In 1571,...

To commemorate, after all, is to remember. And Americans need to remember, not just that the Wall fell, but why it fell.

The tea party is not a party of bigotry, but instead a party that does not want to be fooled again.

It is always wise to question one"s first principles, especially when a Daily Mail columnist pronounces that 'the Cold War as a struggle to the death between Good (Britain and America) and Evil (the Soviet Union) was seriously mistaken", one sits up.

The Second World War, which so many on the Left worked to avoid in the 1930s, was ironically the very instrument by which Britain was transformed in directions they had long wished: the dismantling of empire, the embrace of economic planning, and a vast expansion of the welfare state.

There are echoes of history in the Beijing Olympics and the Russian invasion of Georgia.

Former Soviet bloc countries today bear no resemblance to the liberated nations dreamt of by the underground intellectual resistance movements.

As America now debates methods that will allegedly help defeat radical Islam, it's worth remembering that the West won the Cold War by being, and remaining, a more open society.