Forceful Frauds

N AT I O N A L R E V I E W/S E P T E M B E R 26, 2005 executive summary of the cultural frauds of the Left over the past century.

Cashill reports ably on the intellectual crimes of the purveyors of Marxism, multiculturalism, materialist naturalism, and sexual liberation. Some highlights: Reporter Walter Duranty praised a non- existent Soviet economic boom from the vortex of the Stalinist holocaust. In the famous Piltdown hoax, British scientists proved man’s descent from the apes with a human skull, an orangutan jaw, and a pint of furniture stain. To cover her middle-class Marxist rear end, Rigoberta Menchú wove a peasant history out of whole cloth. Aided by a fertile imagina- tion, anthropologist Margaret Mead sal- vaged a Samoan sexual Shangri-La from the ruins of a botched field trip.

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Richard Nadler

Richard Nadler is president of the Americas Majority Foundation, a public-policy think tank in Overland Park, Kan.

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N AT I O N A L R E V I E W/S E P T E M B E R 26, 2005 executive summary of the cultural frauds of the Left over the past century.

Cashill reports ably on the intellectual crimes of the purveyors of Marxism, multiculturalism, materialist naturalism, and sexual liberation. Some highlights: Reporter Walter Duranty praised a non- existent Soviet economic boom from the vortex of the Stalinist holocaust. In the famous Piltdown hoax, British scientists proved man’s descent from the apes with a human skull, an orangutan jaw, and a pint of furniture stain. To cover her middle-class Marxist rear end, Rigoberta Menchú wove a peasant history out of whole cloth. Aided by a fertile imagina- tion, anthropologist Margaret Mead sal- vaged a Samoan sexual Shangri-La from the ruins of a botched field trip.