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Lessons of the Cold War with Peter Robinson

The Genius of Thomas Sowell

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The Cold War for Dummies

Young people today might have a hard time wrapping their heads around the Cold War and what it was all about. In fact, it's deceptively simple to grasp. A bunch of college students and intellectuals read some books by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels and decided that those guys were really on to something. They started a revolution in Russia so they could try out all these great new ideas in a real country with real people.

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