Category: Not Through Me

April 20, 1964. Nelson Mandela stood in a Pretoria courtroom, facing charges that could get him hanged. He’d already been in prison for nearly two years. Now the apartheid government had him where they wanted him — on trial for sabotage and conspiracy to overthrow the state, alongside seven co-accused. A death sentence was not…

A Small Act, A Loud Statement Being #notthroughme doesn’t always mean showing up to a protest or making headlines. It can be as simple as a decision to stand on the right side of something when the opportunity presents itself. Anastasia Kucherova had one of those opportunities at the Milan Cortina 2026 Winter Olympics, and…

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…