Author: Victor Wiebe

Lepa Radić was a seventeen-year-old member of the Yugoslav resistance during the Second World War. In 1943, after being captured by German forces, she was interrogated and offered her freedom in exchange for the names of other resistance members. She refused. Born in 1925 in a rural village in what is now Bosnia and Herzegovina,…

“Let your credo be this: Let the lie come into the world, let it even triumph. But not through me.”— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, The Noble Truths of the Heart (1974) The world has never lacked for lies — political, cultural, and personal. They travel fast, dressed in confidence and convenience, and they rarely ask permission to…