Viktor Orban will spend three days in the US capital, where he will receive the freedom prize awarded to him by the New Atlantic Initiative. He will meet President George Bush tomorrow.

In one of his last acts as prime minister, Barham Salih symbolically launched the Aras Publishing House’s book fair in Erbil. The event featured important Kurdish classics, translations of Western works, as well as children’s books. Book fairs are important.

It is the first time a former Soviet-bloc elected government has voted to erect a monument in honor of thePresidentfor his role in ending the Cold War and freeingEastern Europefrom Communist oppression.

From his days as a young political leader to his current service as his nation’s prime minister, Viktor Orbán has been a strong advocate of freedom and democracy. A voice of reason and vision, Viktor Orbán continues to play a central role in the historic process of Euro-Atlantic integration....

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban has said he is glad to see "an administration which is known to be a radically anti-Communist, pro-freedom and pro-free-trade administration", such as today's US Bush administration, in power.

This book is astartlingly original argument about the religious meaning of America and why it is loved--and hated--with so much passion at home and abroad.

Well worth reading, John Lewis Gaddis' biography of George Kennan nonetheless raises the basic question of whether Kennan’s concrete contributions justify the many accolades he has received.

Twenty-five years ago, on August 31, 1980, as waves of strikes spread outward from the Lenin shipyard, Polish Communist authorities signed an agreement with the underground opposition movement, giving workers the right to be represented by a democratically elected trade union. Drawing inspiration from Christianity and democratic socialism, Solidarity’s bloodless...