Weekend Beacon 6/29/25

When America Was Really Red

REVIEW: ‘Red Scare: Blacklists, McCarthyism, and the Making of Modern America’ by Clay Risen

How the Left Views Langley

REVIEW: 'The CIA: An Imperial History’ by Hugh Wilford

Lee Edwards, 1932-2024

Column: Remembering the conservative movement's preeminent chronicler

Where the Cold War Got Hot

REVIEW: ‘Covert City: The Cold War and the Making of Miami’ by Vince Houghton and Eric Driggs

Good Riddance, John Kerry

The Decline of American Foreign Policy

Let Them Vote

Column: The pro-Israel, pro-Ukraine majority deserves to be heard

Midwest Mystic or Manchurian Candidate?

REVIEW: 'The World That Wasn't: Henry Wallace and the Fate of the American Century' by Benn Steil

Rooms With No View

REVIEW: 'The Red Hotel: Moscow 1941, the Metropol Hotel, and the Untold Story of Stalin's Propaganda War'

When European Progress Gets Too Progressive

REVIEW: 'Homelands: A Personal History of Europe' by Timothy Garton Ash