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A man is born neither a Christian nor a gentleman. Through baptism one attains the former status. Through his own efforts one arrives at the latter. A gentleman is a rare species indeed. The world is awash with regular folks, but a few of them remarkably noble. Conversely, it is also full of titled heads,…

A scholar or a journalist endeavors to sway the reader through a variety of approaches. Politically, the most sophisticated tackle is to castigate through praising. Under the guise of applauding his subject, the writer, in fact, censures it. Arguably the most prevalent style is fake impartiality, where the writer feigns objectivity. While suavely manipulating the…

The capitalist West, and in particular Western corporations, are generally blamed for environmental degradation. Yet, as Dr. Chodakiewicz shows in this article, it was the communists who presided over the greatest pollution of the environment in history. Moreover, Dr. Chodakiewicz demonstrates, it was only the collapse of communism that allowed the Poles to clean up…

In PDF format:  Cultural Diplomacy: A Multi-Faceted Strategic Asset of Soviet Power One of the most potent yet grossly underestimated capabilities of Soviet political power is the Kremlin’s large array of instruments of cultural diplomacy. The use of culture has a long tradition in Soviet foreign policy, which stems from Leninist principles on the importance…

Mikhail Gorbechev’s policy of glasnost’ has been one of the most astonishing political innovations of recent Soviet history.  Because it has the hallmarks of free speech, and therefore the opening of a closed society, this policy has convinced the West that fundamental changes are taking place in the USSR – changes which also have dramatic foreign policy…

This work exists as Chapter 3 in Soviet Strategic Deception (Hoover Press, 1987), edited by Brian D. Dailey and Patrick J. Parker.  John Lenczowski discusses the themes of Soviet strategic deception and disinformation, historically and in the years that would soon spell the end of the USSR. Available here in PDF format: Themes of Soviet Strategic…

More than twenty years ago, IWP Walter Kohler Professor John Tierney wrote the following account of the initial U.S. intervention of Haiti in 1915, which he entitled America's "Black Vietnam." The article appeared in the Fall 1981 edition of the Lincoln Review, a scholarly journal on African-American affairs. The article is republished here to provide…