"To silence criticism is to silence freedom."

"Anti-Semitism was rife in almost all varieties of socialism."

"Although there was much to criticize in American domestic and foreign policy, what struck me was the one-sidedness, u…"

"The United States was taxed with following a policy whose logic was "genocide" for helping South Vietnam deal with "a…"

"The grim consequences of … Hanoi's victory are now incontestable. The record of the last decade has brought a realiza…"

"I turned to Brecht and asked him why, if he felt the way he did about Jerome and the other American Communists, he ke…"

"It is better to be a live jackal than a dead lion--for jackals, not men. Men who have the moral courage to fight inte…"

"Herbert Marcuse made a lengthy, impassioned response. What good was the Voting Rights Act accomplishing, he said, sin…"

"Although Bertrand Russell suffered unpopularity in some quarters for his role as a political dissenter, he enjoyed th…"

"As Adolf Berle, a fellow cold warrior, once remarked, 'Being vindicated by history is cold comfort.' For one thing, t…"