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
Ed’s strong anti-communism because of his religious faith and his political beliefs merits special mention. The story begins during the height of the Cold War. In 1961, Ed Feulner (EJF) was on a two-month summer college trip with 16 other… Read More
Writing in the Washington Examiner, VOC’s Dr. Eric Patterson exposes one of the key lies of democratic socialist talking points in America. As he argues: Americans are being told that so-called “democratic socialism” is simply the humane politics of Scandinavia… Read More
Today, South Korea is well known around the world for its vibrant and free democracy, which was gained through a long battle against the threat of communist incursions from the North. But recently, that pride is quietly slipping away. For decades, Korean… Read More
New York Mayor Mamdani continues to wage a war against American independence. The latest salvo? Bodegas. New York City has 13,000 or more of these mom-and-pop grocery stores. Unlike chain grocery stores with large parking lots in the suburbs, bodegas are… Read More
