Elizabeth Spalding

Elizabeth Edwards Spalding: The 1956 Hungarian uprising serves as a timeless reminder of the cost of freedom and the moral necessity of resisting tyranny.

Historical or conventional antisemitism is still with us, at home and abroad. Every American should speak out against it.

The statesman who helped defeat Hitler was already warning the West about the next tyrant behind the Iron Curtain and the ideology that is still a threat.

Thatcher embraced the “Iron Lady” label because she recognized the necessity of moral clarity over equivocation in confronting the evils of communism and socialism

On December 23, 1981, President Ronald Reagan called for Americans to place a lighted candle in the window on Christmas Eve. He did so at the request of Romuald...

The end of WWII closed one chapter of conflict against tyranny and opened another which we are still fighting

He was the anti-communist in chief.

What The Gulag Archipelago still teaches, 50 years later.

Ronald Reagan’s “Remarks at the Annual Convention of the National Association of Evangelicals in Orlando, Florida” of March 8, 1983, were plain speaking and straight truth about the Soviet Union.

As Putin is the dregs of the USSR, so the war in Ukraine is the bitter legacy of Soviet communism.

In 1946 when the prospects for what would become the United Nations’ Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) appeared dim, President Harry Truman appointed Eleanor Roosevelt to a UN committee where she could promote universal human rights.

Will Powell’s impressive accomplishments and loyal service to presidents of both parties earn him a place in the pantheon of great statesmen?

Dr. Spalding reviews Andrew Preston's Sword of the Spirit, Shield of Faith: Religion in American War and Diplomacy.

Dr. Spalding reviews Melvyn Leffler's For the Soul of Mankind: The United States, the Soviet Union, and the Cold War.