And that's the thing about post-Communist songs. There are some splendidly catchy ones which are so laden with political baggage that they are utterly unsingable. Hearing the Anthem of the Estonian Soviet Socialist Republic (available, if you're interested, on sovmusic.ru) makes my flesh creep in the same way that the Horst Wessel Lied does.

Joshua Muravchik responds to letters to the editor in the most recent issue of Foreign Policy.

Review of Trotsky: The Eternal Revolutionary, by Dmitri Volkogonov.

In his June 4 speech given in Cairo, President Obama exhibited the amazing spectacle of an American president taking an equidistant position between the country he leads and its detractors and enemies.

There exists an Iran that does not admire Ahmadinejad, an Iran that believes in open engagement with the West and an open discussion of history.

Birthday toasts to Irving Kristol by Christopher DeMuth, George Will, Walter Berns, Midge Decter, Charles Krauthammer, Daniel Patrick Moynihan, and William Kristol.

What does the future hold for Venezuela and its president, Hugo Chávez?

Neoconservatives have the president"s ear, but they also have lots of baggage. To stay relevant, they must admit mistakes, embrace public diplomacy, and start making the case for bombing Iran.