Alan J. Levine

Alan J. Levine

Alan J. Levine is a retired teacher of history, who worked at Borough of Manhattan Community College. He is the author of a dozen books, mostly about World War II and the Cold War. He has also authored Race Relations within Western Expansion (Praeger 1996). His most recent books are After Sputnik and The Soviets' Greatest Gambit—the Cuban Missile Crisis.

Myths About Cuba Persist on the Left and Right 0
- History
- July 29, 2021
Recent debates over what to do about Cuba remain afflicted by myths, many going back to the origins of the Castros’ Communist regime. There have generally been two conflicting accounts of how this regime was established and its relation to
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Biden at Tulsa Is a Study in Historical Confusion 0
- History
- June 7, 2021
In a rambling performance taking three-quarters of an hour, President Joe Biden spoke at Tulsa on the anniversary of the murderous events of 1921. He subjected his audience to his usual mangled sentences, omitting key words or parts of speech,
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The Decline of the Art of Lying 0
- Culture
- February 10, 2021
We live in an era of unprecedently widespread lying. Yet lying itself, is an art—albeit an unadmirable one—in decline in a decadent age.

Our leaders have set a spectacularly bad example. Former President Trump lied continually and shamelessly, as do
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The Moral and Intellectual Collapse of America’s Political Parties 0
- Culture
- January 11, 2021
It is no longer news that 2020 saw a collapse of political discourse and public behavior in the United States. Trends that developed over many years intensified last year.

One major political party had as its candidate for president a
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