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I was struck by the mystery of why so many intelligent and admirable people remained so loyal for so long to a fundamentally flawed movement
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I was struck by the mystery of why so many intelligent and admirable people remained so loyal for so long to a fundamentally flawed movement
Tom Harrison, back row, center; Joanne Landy, second row, right This interview was originally published in Left History. This version is reposted from New Politics, where it was republished in 2018. Joanne Landy died in 2017. See here for a brief obituary. Introduction
Observations on the week's analysis and commentary.
We hate to see it, but the Democratic Socialists of America have run out of money.
THE FOUNDATION "To the haranguers of the populace among the ancients, succeed among the moderns your writers of political pamphlets and news-papers, and your coffee-house talkers." —Benjamin Franklin (1767) On this day in Patriot history in 1945, a young soldier named Audie Murphy was wounded in...