From the Editor

■ “How much the greatest event it is that ever happened in the world! And how much the best!” said Charles James Fox of the French Revolution. Fox was wrong about 1789, but his words exactly capture our feelings here about the anti-Communist revolution in the Soviet Union.

That is why we are devoting the great bulk of this issue to reflections on it. Several regular features are absent—though not, addicts please note, “Trans-O-Gram”—and our coverage of domestic politics is slim.