Reading Time: 3 minutes CSIS decision is an affront to historical study, denying us deeper understanding of both the former prime minister and the RCMP
Tag: Cold war
Why helping the downtrodden around the world helps us all
Reading Time: 3 minutes The idea that you can wall build walls and create quarantines is as ridiculous as it is dangerous
Power of the Catholic church can tear down walls – even along borders
Reading Time: 3 minutes History shows again and again that the church can mobilize an unstoppable force driven by a desire for love and peace
Ronald Reagan’s remarkable mission to Moscow
Reading Time: 4 minutes The American president’s loathing for nuclear weapons and his desire to see new freedoms in the Soviet Union framed his trip
Abstain to satisfy your hunger for peace and understanding
Reading Time: 3 minutes Fasting makes me feel purified in body, mind and spirit, and links me in solidarity with good people all around the world
Christmas books for the history buff
Reading Time: 3 minutes If your Christmas shopping list includes a history buff, here’s a handful of 2015 titles that will definitely solve your problem
The unlikely pair who defrosted the Cold War
Reading Time: 3 minutes Reagan and Gorbachev managed to do what had seemed impossible, essentially ending the Cold War 30 years ago this month
Could the Cold War have been avoided if Roosevelt had lived?
Reading Time: 3 minutes Stalin’s habit of doing precisely what he could get away with made the Cold War inevitable