Gulag

On Solzhenitsyn's struggle to publish Gulag Archipelago in the waning days of the USSRAn edition of The Gulag Archipelago published in formerly Communist Poland (By tomeqs/Shutterstock)Editor’s Note: These pages, written in 1994 but published here for the first time in English, recount the dramatic tale of how The Gulag Archipelago…

Whatever passes for industrial policy in the United States seems to revolve around the petulant whims of President Donald Trump. Whether a company will be rewarded with government contracts, castigated on Twitter, or banned from doing business largely depends on the president’s brittle feelings. So it goes with TikTok, the…

Sony has announced the free PS4 games that it will be giving away in August. PlayStation Plus subscribers can download Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 Campaign Remastered for free starting on Tuesday, July 28th, and Fall Guys: Ultimate Knockout on Tuesday, August 4th. Here are the standard prices for…

/ Europe Issued on: 22/07/2020 - 15:17 Russian historian Yury Dmitriyev, who heads rights group Memorial's branch in Karelia, gestures outside a court building following the verdict in his child pornography trial in the city of Petrozavodsk in northwestern Russia on April 5, 2018. AFP - OLGA MALTSEVA A Russian…

By Marina KORENEVA (AFP)     Jul 22, 2020 in World A Russian court on Wednesday convicted a respected Gulag historian in a controversial sexual abuse case, but handed down a sentence that should see him freed in the autumn.Yury Dmitriyev, the local head of prominent rights group Memorial in…

One cannot ignore the legacy of communism: millions dead, imprisoned, and ultimately, not free.Dear Philip,I’m writing like this because I didn’t know how better to respond to emails in which you related, in passing, that despite reservations about aspects of progressivism, you were “kind of socialist.” You wrote this well…

Increasingly, we see people holding unpopular views being attacked and refused a forum in which to speak.  Through the threat of force and censorship to control people's speech, free speech is under full assault.   History is replete with others using similar tactics.  As in the times before the Nazi rise…

Select Square Enix games have now made their way back to Nvidia's cloud gaming service GeForce Now, including entries in the Tomb Raider and Deus Ex series. However, some games that were previously available for the platform have not yet returned, including Final Fantasy XV, Nier: Automata, and the Arkham…

https://www.lewrockwell.com/lrc-blog/humiliation-for-fun-and-profit/ After twenty very long years, the TSA’s business model—humiliate and harass your “customers”—has finally gained traction. It even has imitators, incredibly enough; how else to explain this headline? Stormtroopers Used to Enforce Social Distancing at Disney World Disney Springs opened up last week and it has been crowded, so…

Image: ActivisionGame-changing events are shaking things up in Call of Duty: Warzone, including one that resurrects all defeated players. The highly anticipated Season 4 of content finally arrived for Modern Warfare and Warzone on June 11, launching across PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC after a brief delay during the…