Communism

The Bloodlands

I should not be surprised to see the Ukrainian people fighting so bravely and standing up to Vladimir Putin as they are. But when the conflict began unfolding most people, myself included, figured this would be over in 48 hours just as it was when the Taliban took over Afghanistan. I should have remembered the …

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Howard Zinn and “A People’s History of the United States”

The New York Times declared that the book should be “required reading” for students and professors at the University of Colorado-Boulder, UMass-Amherst, Penn State, and Indiana University have followed this advice. The book is so popular that it can be found on the class syllabus in such fields as economics, political science, literature, and women’s …

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