Comintern propagandist Willi Münzenberg guessed that a suitable cause would lure 'innocents' -- earlier dubbed 'useful idiots' by Lenin -- to contribute their prestige and funds. It was this strategy, honed during the Spanish Civil war, that Amnesty's inspiration, the ardent communist Alec Digges, adopted as his own, as a young Claudio Véliz witnessed firsthand

The first shot of the Ukrainian War was fired in […]

The catastrophic failure of Peronist populism was sealed at last by November’s presidential elections and the victory of conservative free-marketeer Mauricio Macri. In the Vatican, however, one can only wonder if the brilliantined dictator's direct and indirect influence lives on

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The Duke of Wellington thought that “croaking” was the second-worst […]

It is not possible to write about Bill Buckley without […]