Consider Jacob Riis and the tenements of the Lower East Side or Upton Sinclair and Midwest meatpacking plants. On Wednesday night, Anthony Haden-Guest — gadfly, socialite, New York man of letters — began a similar campaign against a rampant, if not...

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Church, it would be nothing new from the radical left. Consider some examples: In my book, Dupes, I shared the case of Anna Louise Strong. Strong was an editor to the flagship publication of the communist front Friends of the Soviet Union, which...

Sir David Watson, Professor and Principal at Oxford University, England, shares his views with C. M. Rubin about higher education and a life of learning. "The evidence is strong from the UK that those members of society who have had a positive...

And though they are most often hailed for staving off starvation instead of decried for delaying a real industrial revolution, the results are disastrous. I'm not sure I can bear to read a whole Upton Sinclair-style book on the subject, but as...