Fellow-Traveling Lives

NEW YORK, DEC. 12

The Washington Times, the indispensable daily in Washington that keeps its eyes open round the clock for mischievous activity, published a few days before Mr. Gorbachev’s arrival an account by the New York Post’s Eric Breindel of what one might call avant-garde anti-anti-Commu- nism. In a way, what happened at Harvard might be thought of as an aperitif offered to Gorbachev on his visit here. The three- day forum, called “Anti-Communism and the United States: History and Consequences,” was an examination of the pathology of U.S. anti-Communism. Granted, its principal celebrants could be called pro- Communists. Some of them are explicit Communists; and others are of a chilly disposition on the matter of Communism. They simply don’t much care how many people live in Gulag.

About the Author

William F. Buckley Jr.

William F. Buckley Jr. founded National Review magazine in 1955.

NEW YORK, DEC. 12

The Washington Times, the indispensable daily in Washington that keeps its eyes open round the clock for mischievous activity, published a few days before Mr. Gorbachev’s arrival an account by the New York Post’s Eric Breindel of what one might call avant-garde anti-anti-Commu- nism. In a way, what happened at Harvard might be thought of as an aperitif offered to Gorbachev on his visit here. The three- day forum, called “Anti-Communism and the United States: History and Consequences,” was an examination of the pathology of U.S. anti-Communism. Granted, its principal celebrants could be called pro- Communists. Some of them are explicit Communists; and others are of a chilly disposition on the matter of Communism. They simply don’t much care how many people live in Gulag.