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    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.

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  • Myths About Cuba Persist on the Left and Right

    Myths About Cuba Persist on the Left and Right0

    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 the Cuban past, and both may need to be corrected. Some of the most childish

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  • Biden at Tulsa Is a Study in Historical Confusion

    Biden at Tulsa Is a Study in Historical Confusion0

    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, sometimes to the point of total incomprehensibility. In fairness it should be noted that he is hardly

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  • The Decline of the Art of Lying

    The Decline of the Art of Lying0

    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 his noisiest enemies and his successor. But they are bad liars—clumsy, unconvincing, and incredibly short-sighted,

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  • The Moral and Intellectual Collapse of America’s Political Parties

    The Moral and Intellectual Collapse of America’s Political Parties0

    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 magnetic figure who can also be nasty and lacking in verbal self-control. The other party

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