The Crushing of Eastern Europe

Anne Applebaum’s Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe 1944-56 challenges the revisionist notion that the Sovietisation of Eastern Europe was a response to American belligerency. Roosevelt and then Truman, according Applebaum, were essentially bystanders during the process. Iron Curtain convincingly demonstrates that Soviet-style communism, operating in the vacuum created by the collapse of the Nazi Empire, obeyed a totalitarian logic all of its own.

Left-Fascism Tries to Silence Ayaan Hirsi Ali

This is an abridged version of the speech Ayaan Hirsi Ali would have delivered to the students of Brandeis University if the "progressives" (also known as Left-Fascists) had not revoked her invitation.

Freedom Fighter: A Review of Ayaan Hirsi Ali's Memoir

Few have experienced a more precipitous learning curve than Ayaan Hirsi Ali. Somalia’s most famous (or notorious depending on your perspective) emigrant has completed a second autobiography, Nomad: A Personal Journey Through the Clash Of Civilizations (2010) at the relatively young age of forty. If her life continues to be as eventful as it has been until now – and her round-the-clock security regime does its job properly – we may see many more memoirs penned by the brave and articulate Hirsi Ali.

A Photographic Essay: China 1979

This is dedicated to Wei Jingshen and "The Fifth Modernisation"

To see the photographic essay, click this link:

http://www.quadrant.org.au/blogs/qed/2012/04/china-1979-a-photographic-essay

First Person - Democracy Wall 1979

Photograph: Daryl McCann 1979

In October 1979 I found myself, through no feat of my own, living the high life in a provincial city in the People's Republic of China. I was twenty-two years old and had just completed an honours degree in Politics at the University of Adelaide, the title of my thesis being “Micro-Computer Technology and Contemporary Capitalism”. It almost goes without saying that the conclusion to my dissertation anticipated the imminent demise of Late Capitalism. It absolutely goes without saying that I was a Marxist.

The article can be read in full at the following link:

http://www.quadrant.org.au/magazine/issue/2012/4/democracy-wall-beijing-1979

Britain's Muzzled Press

In the midst of the current debate about the future of free speech in Australia, an article by Myles Harris, Editor of the Salisbury Review, makes an interesting read. First published in the July-August edition of the American Spectator.

To read "Britain's Muzzled Press" by Myles Harris, click the following link:

http://www.salisburyreview.com/Americanspec.pdf

When Did The Left Renounce Liberty?

 

The outrage vented this past week by progressives against freedom of speech has left me wondering, “Where have all the flowers gone, long time passing?/Where have all the flowers gone, long time ago?” I thought the whole point of the Sixties Revolution was to set the people free so they could express themselves without fear of being busted by “The Man”.

To keep reading the article, click this link:

http://quadrant.org.au/opinion/qed/2014/03/exactly-left-renounce-liberty/