By Rick Perlstein 8/14/00 12:00am

Cloak Without Dagger: The Traitor Is Mr. Nice Guy

Harry Gold , by Millicent Dillon. Overlook Press, 280 pages, $26.95.

Six years ago, when I came to New York from the Midwest to seek my fortune as a writer of the intellectual sort, I developed an obsession with an obsession. Colleagues in my adopted city could not stop arguing about the Communist Party of Read More

By Richard Brookhiser 11/03/97 12:00am

Sell Butter (Not Guns) To China

A few weeks before Chinese President Jiang Zemin visited Washington, I was talking with an old-style liberal anti-communist: a man who was a Democrat in domestic and social matters, but who had decried the Soviet Union all the years of the Cold War. I began to doubt it, though, when he warmed to his theme, Read More