Paul Kengor

Paul Kengor is professor of political science at Grove City College in Grove City, Pennsylvania. His books include A Pope and a President, The Divine Plan and The Politically Incorrect Guide to Communism, The Devil and Karl Marx: Communism's Long March of Death, Deception, and Infiltration.

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Declaration of Independence signed July 4, 1776.

1619, 1776 and the United States of America

COMMENTARY: There’s no arguing it: The United States of America, as our founders conceived it, started in 1776.

Paul Kengor Nation July 1, 2022

Pope St. John Paul II consecrating Russia to the Immaculate Heart of Mary on the Solemnity of the Annunciation, March 25, 1984.

John Paul II’s Consecration of Russia

COMMENTARY: The Polish Pope made an act of entrustment to the Immaculate Heart of Mary 38 years ago.

Paul Kengor Commentaries March 23, 2022

At right, a Russian armored vehicle sits at a railway station in Rostov Oblast, Russia Feb. 25, awaiting deployment to Ukraine. At left, a Soviet tank sits on St. Joseph Boulevard in Budapest, on Nov. 6, 1956, two days after helping to crush the uprising in Hungary.

Putin Goes Soviet: Shades of Hungary 1956

COMMENTARY: Right now, Ukraine is being martyred once again. And yet again, the persecutors march from Moscow.

Paul Kengor World February 28, 2022

Pope St. John Paul II blesses Ukrainian children after offering Mass at Chaika Airfield outside Kyiv, June 25, 2001.

‘Shedding Their Blood’ — The Popes, Ukraine and Russia

COMMENTARY: Once again, the people of Ukraine turn to the faith for their salvation against the enemy at the gate — and once again, a pope is not standing by in silence.

Paul Kengor Commentaries January 26, 2022

Members of the Taliban patrol in the back of a pickup truck with a Taliban flag along a street in Kabul on Sept. 30.

Remember 2021 — and Remember the Lessons of 9/11

COMMENTARY: The somber 20-year anniversary was met this year with another somber development — the American withdrawal from Afghanistan and its return to the Taliban. And it need not have been.

Paul Kengor Nation December 31, 2021

Clockwise L-R: T-55A on the streets during Martial law in Poland. President Ronald Reagan with Pope John Paul II. ZOMO squads with police batons preparing to disperse and beat protesters.

Christmas 1981 Heralded the Collapse of Communism in Poland

COMMENTARY: Forty years ago, Soviet communists tried to turn out the lights. But like a candle in the White House window, Ronald Reagan and John Paul II and the people of Poland kept a flicker of hope alive.

Paul Kengor Commentaries December 13, 2021