The Riposte

Confessions? Apologies? Nothing could be further from my mind. It has never occurred to me to apologize to anyone for the content of my life, which I would have judged on its balance of good and evil. I share Christine Stansell’s respect for the healthy attitude displayed by people like Adam Michnik and only regret that I should have given any other impression.

Please understand: I am not as much concerned with crimes of yesterday as with the crimes of the present and with the future of the American left. Thus, I expected Eric Foner and Alice Kessler-Harris to do everything in their power to obfuscate the issues, for they rank among the leaders of the thinly disguised totalitarianism in which the American left wallows. Foner...