Tag Archives: Francis Fukuyama
Communism, Control, and Our Future
There are of course entire libraries filled with books about socialism, Marxism, the Soviet Union, and so on. In my own personal library I have several hundred volumes on these topics. But this volume is one of the newest and best volumes available so far. It offers a sweeping yet detailed history of Communism covering the past 175 years or so.
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Tagged Berlin Wall, Chinese Communism, Chinese Communist Party, Communism, COVID–19, Eastern Bloc, Francis Fukuyama, Joseph Stalin, Karl Marx, Khmer Rouge, Mao Tse-Tung, Mao’s Red Guards, Nigel Farage, President Trump, Red Guards, Richard Pipes, Sean McMeekin, Soviet Union, The Rise and Fall and Rise of Communism, UN World Health Organization, USSR, Vladimir Lenin, Vladimir Putin, Zohran Mamdani
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No Church, No Freedom
Regular readers have read John Stonestreet and me refer to religious freedom as the “first freedom.” You probably think that’s another way of saying that it’s the most important freedom.
Well, it is. But it’s also the source of all of our freedoms.
In a fantastic address at Cedarville University in Ohio, John quoted the French philosopher Luc Ferry, an atheist, who acknowledged the West’s debt to Christianity.
Ferry wrote that “Christianity was to introduce the notion that humanity was fundamentally identical, that men were equal in dignity—an unprecedented idea at the time, and one to which our world …
Posted in Faith, Religious Liberty
Tagged Francis Fukuyama, Henry IV, John Stonestreet, Luc Ferry, Pope Gregory VII
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