Kevin Williamson, National Review
The history of the postwar period is the history of the struggle against Communism. What’s sometimes forgotten — conveniently forgotten — is that our victory in that struggle was far from assured, and that a substantial swath of the Western intelligentsia and much of its celebrity culture was on the other side. It wasn’t just Jane Fonda and Noam Chomsky, Walter Duranty and Lincoln Steffens. (I have been to the future, Steffens wrote after a visit to the Soviet Union, and it works.) Eventually, 100 million people would die under Communism as part of the longest and widest campaign…
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