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Joshua Muravchik is a Distinguished Fellow at the World Affairs Institute, Former Resident Scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, and Former Aide to Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan.
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Heaven on Earth

Heaven on Earth: The Rise, Fall, and Afterlife of Socialism

Socialism was man’s most ambitious attempt to supplant religion with a doctrine claiming to ground itself in “science.” Each failure to create societies of abundance or give birth to “the New Man” inspired more searching for the path to the promised land: revolution, communes, social democracy, communism, fascism, Arab socialism, African socialism. None worked, and…

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A Tree Grows in Lublin

Remembering Jan Karski, the Pole who told FDR to his face about the Holocaust, and still wondered if he’d done enough. On a mild, breezy day in Lublin this summer, the chief rabbi of Poland and the former chairman of the Polish conference of bishops presided at a tree-planting ceremony on the grounds of a primary…

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