Left-wing historian Ellen Schrecker of Yeshiva University explains why
American Communist spies like Alger Hiss and the Rosenbergs weren't
traitors: They "did not subscribe to traditional forms of patriotism," she
says in yesterday's
New York Times Magazine.
NR has obtained an advance copy of
Vanity Fair writer Gail Sheehy's new
biography of Hillary Clinton, "Hillary's Choice." As one would expect from
such a scribe, public policy receives virtually no attention on these
pages. Instead, the book is mainly about personal lives, with the juiciest
material coming from unnamed sources: "A former senior White House
attorney confirms that Monica was not Clinton's first fling in the White
House." And there's plenty of therapeutic psychology, too. The president
is quite obviously a sex addict, writes Sheehy:
"The most convincing analysis of Clinton's sickness was offered to me by a
highly qualified mental health professional who works too close to the
White House to be identified. This source sees evidence that the President
may suffer from dissociative identities: 'It appears that there is more
than one person in him. His emotional reality is in Hot Springs. His
intellectual reality is in his wife, who fosters his best self.'
"The new official definition of this dissocative disorder (which used to
be called 'multiple personalities') describes a personality that is a sum
of various identities that have been split off at some time in the past."
And it takes an enabler: "Nobody surpassed Hillary in the role of enabler.
Every addict or alcoholic needs one. The enabler is usually an intimate of
the addicted person who allows him to persist in self-destructive behavior
by making excuses or helping him avoid the consequences of his actions.
Hillary seems to have no concept of herself as fulfilling this
indispensable role in her husband's sexual addiction. The more she
'understands' him and excuses his problems as the result of a 'vast
right-wing conspiracy' and rushes out to defend and protect him, the less
responsibility he takes for his own misbehavior. She believes she is doing
everything she possibly can to help the hero of their grand narrative. But
as a result of her self-delusion, she is doing just the opposite."
