Covert Ops

Lovestone’s Thin Red Line Lovestone’s Thin Red Line

Jay Lovestone is not only one of the oddest characters in the history of the American left but easily its most slippery.

May 6, 1999 / Books & the Arts / Paul Buhle

The Spies Who Loved Us? The Spies Who Loved Us?

I still kick myself for not having saved the short story I wrote for composition class in seventh grade in which I described how the Russians took over my small suburban communit...

May 6, 1999 / Books & the Arts / Ellen Schrecker

Gore Vidal

Requiem for the American Empire Requiem for the American Empire

“Empires are restless organisms. They must constantly renew themselves; should an empire start leaking energy, it will die.”

Jan 11, 1986 / Gore Vidal

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