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Byline: Ronald Radosh At the annual conference of the American Historical Association in New York City this month, anti-Israeli activist historians suffered a rare double defeat. Calling themselves Historians Against [...]

Byline: Ronald Radosh When Joshua Muravchik wrote this book, he could not have known how timely it would turn out to be. He would not have been surprised, however, by [...]

Byline: Ronald Radosh Pete Seeger's death at the age of 94 has brought forth scores of celebratory tributes. America had long ago showered him with honors, which all but made [...]

Byline: Ronald Radosh Reading this provocative and compelling analysis of John F. Kennedy's political vision, I could not help but think of the reaction Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. had when [...]

Byline: Ronald Radosh One of the most successful endeavors of the academic left in the field of American history and foreign policy has been convincing many colleagues, and thousands of [...]

Byline: Ronald Radosh For those who considered themselves men of the left, it was a staple of belief that the very concept of totalitarianism was deeply flawed. Marxism, it was [...]

Byline: Ronald Radosh The historian Allen Weinstein has had, by any standard, an illustrious career. For some years, he was a professor of history at Smith. Moving on, he created [...]

Byline: Ronald Radosh Two years ago, Oliver Stone announced that he was preparing to make a documentary about recent American history. It premieres on the CBS-owned cable network Showtime on [...]

Byline: Ronald Radosh The death late last month of Eugene D. Genovese was a loss not only to the world of professional historians, but to American intellectual life as a [...]

Byline: Ronald Radosh Since the publication in 1978 of Allen Weinstein's definitive Perjury: The Hiss-Chambers Case, only partisans of the far left have continued to insist that Alger Hiss was [...]

Byline: Allis Radosh and Ronald Radosh The presidential campaign was heating up, and the progressives in office were nervous about their chances of holding the White House. It was unclear [...]

Byline: Harvey Klehr and John Earl Haynes & Ronald Radosh For more than 30 years the broad outlines of one of the FBI's most successful counterintelligence operations have been widely [...]

Byline: Ronald Radosh Political Folk Music in America from Its Origins to Bob Dylan by Lawrence J. Epstein McFarland, 213 pp., $35 Reading Lawrence J. Epstein's wonderful, lively, and politically [...]

Byline: Ronald Radosh and Steven T. Usdin Three years ago, Morton Sobell gave an interview to Sam Roberts of the New York Times that surprised readers and stunned many who [...]

Byline: Ronald Radosh The Invisible Harry Gold The Man Who Gave the Soviets the Atom Bomb by Allen M. Hornblum Yale, 464 pp., $32.50 You would think that, at this [...]

Byline: Ronald Radosh Two weeks ago, the FBI released 423 pages from its files on the late radical historian Howard Zinn. The bureau kept tabs on him for over 25 [...]

Byline: Ronald Radosh Spies The Rise and Fall of the KGB in America by John Earl Haynes, Harvey Klehr, and Alexander Vassiliev Yale, 704 pp., $35 A Since the Cold [...]

A Freewheelin' Time A Memoir of Greenwich Village in the Sixties by Suze Rotolo Broadway Books, 384 pp., $22.95 Everyone recognizes the cover photo for Bob Dylan's 1963 Columbia album, [...]

The late director Billy Wilder, referring to the 'Unfriendly Ten'-later called the Hollywood Ten, who refused to answer questions from the House Un-American Activities Committee in its 1950 investigation of [...]

As the Democratic primaries near their end, supporters of both Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama have used a time-honored yet unexpected device to attack each other: old-fashioned redbaiting. At the [...]

A Conservative History of the American Left by Daniel J. Flynn Crown-Forum, 464 pp. $27.50 This title does Daniel J. Flynn's fine new history a disservice. Some readers seeking a [...]

John Spargo and American Socialism by Markku Ruotsila Palgrave/Macmillan, 344 pp., $75 A  few years ago, a well-known neoconservative asked a simple question: 'Why do so many of us persist [...]

The End of Commitment Intellectuals, Revolutionaries, and Political Morality in the Twentieth Century by Paul Hollander Ivan R. Dee, 416 pp., $28.95 Twenty-five years ago, Paul Hollander wrote the path-breaking [...]

Shepherdstown, West Virginia What is a quintessential third-generation New York Jewish intellectual--me--doing moving to a house located between Shepherdstown and Martinsburg, West Virginia? When I left 93rd Street and Broadway [...]

The acquittal on December 6 of Sami al--Arian, a former professor of computer engineering at the University of South Florida, on eight counts relating to terrorism was a setback not [...]

WHILE I APPRECIATE Ron Capshaw's fine review of our new book Red Star Over Hollywood ('Tales of the Left Coast,' May 23), Capshaw frequently implies it was my book alone, [...]