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Joseph Stalin
June 22, 2022
Timothy Noah
I Don’t Give a Rat’s Ass About Trump’s “State of Mind”
He may well be incapable of feeling guilt. So was Mao. And that’s a defense?
June 12, 2018
Jeet Heer
A brief history of American presidents praising dictators.
August 15, 2016
Jeet Heer
Even in the age of Trump, Joe Biden remains the master of the gaffe.
January 28, 2016
Jeet Heer
Stalin might have been a scatologist who studied the stool of a fellow dictator.
June 22, 2014
Michael Kimmage
How the CIA Stole 'Dr. Zhivago'
The novel stood in subtle opposition to much that Soviet life tried to destroy
January 11, 2012
Stephen Holmes, Ivan Krastev
The Weakest Strongman
August 12, 2010
James Kirchick
Statue of Limitations
May 21, 2010
Leon Wieseltier
Family Business
April 23, 2007
The Editors
The Waxman Cometh
January 5, 1998
Michael J. Ybarra
Blacklist Whitewash
July 9, 1977
Richard Strout
TRB from Washington: Matters for Mencken
April 24, 1935
Malcolm Cowley
H.G. Wells' Interview With Stalin Helped Change the Fundamental Principles of Liberalism

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