Category: show trial

Lenin’s Show Trials and the January 6 Committee

Commentary I have watched with horror the totalitarian pattern of the Jan. 6 Committee. As I wrote last month, this is a staged show trial worthy of Vladimir Lenin who developed the technique (later used to great effect by Joseph Stalin) while creating the Soviet dictatorship. As Laura Engelstein wrote in her brilliant study “Russia…


What the January 6 Committee Might Have Been

Commentary Congress should investigate fully the January 6 riot at the Capitol—and similar recent riots at iconic federal sites. But unfortunately, it never will. Why not? The current committee is not bipartisan. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) forbade Republican nominees traditionally selected by the House minority leader to serve on the committee. No speaker had…