Writing in Foreign Policy, VOC Senior Fellow in China studies, Dr. Adrian Zenz, and researcher Muetter Tohti explore how Beijing is pioneering new tools of transnational repression. Transnational repression has moved from the margins of human rights reporting to the… Read More
So-called democratic socialists such as Mamdani ally Darializa Avila Chevalier have called for the “total eradication of Western civilization.” This should not surprise us. For decades, America’s education system—from K-12 through universities—has drifted from teaching about the American Dream to an outright assault on America’s free… Read More
The following is an op-ed written by Dr. Edwin J. Feulner and Ana Quintana. It originally ran in Real Clear World on February 21, 2017. Over the last two decades, the now-deceased Hugo Chavez and his handpicked successor, President Nicolas Maduro, have… Read More
The following is an op-ed written by Dr. Edwin J. Feulner. It originally ran in The Washington Times on November 06, 2017. President Franklin D. Roosevelt called Dec. 7, 1941 “a day that will live in infamy,” and with good reason. The… Read More
The following is an op-ed written by Dr. Edwin J. Feulner. It originally ran in The Washington Times on June 09, 2019. Even if you know nothing about the Tiananmen Square massacre, you’ve almost surely seen the famous photo of a… Read More
The following is an op-ed written by Dr. Edwin J. Feulner. It originally ran in The Daily Signal on June 12, 2019. “Tonight, we renew our resolve that America will never be a socialist country.” That’s from President Donald Trump’s last… Read More
As an 11-year-old boy, along with my 7-year-old brother, I was playing on the beach near Havana, Cuba, where we spent most of the summer every year. Little did we know how quickly life could change under communism. A year earlier in 1959, we heard and experienced some minor… Read More
The following is an op-ed written by Dr. Edwin J. Feulner. It originally ran in The National Review on June 12, 2022. June 12 marks the 35th anniversary of President Reagan’s Brandenburg Gate speech — memorable for the six words still… Read More
On July 21, 2026, the Honorable Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, who fled communism in Cuba as a child and became the first Hispanic woman elected to Congress in America, provided the keynote address at VOC’s Captive Nations Summit. Read her full remarks… Read More
