Shortly after Hungary set off the fall of Soviet-style socialism in 1989, when that country's rulers allowed visitors from what then was East Germany to leave for West Germany without any hindrance, my mother, who had lived in Hungary all her life before being allowed to leave in 1975, made some interesting predictions...

The neoconservative influence on American foreign policy has not had an enthusiastic response outside the United States...

The general mindset of the political left is similar from country to country and even from century to century...

Hereditary matters...