Marxists are often chided for prizing theory over reality, but Kevin Schmiesing’s assessment in Law & Liberty of Andrew Hartman’s 550-page Karl Marx in America finds this author largely does the opposite. Hartman’s descriptions of communism’s rancorous currents flowing through America are interesting and largely accurate, writes Schmiesing, but his evaluation of Marxism as philosophy is weak. This in turn blinds Hartman to the key question: why did Communism never really catch on in America?
When They Come Here Just to Kill You…
Following an “Allahu-Akbar”-yelling Afghan’s shooting of two National Guard troops in Washington, D.C. – one of whom subsequently died – Ammon Blair in UnHerd lauds President Donald Trump’s planned “permanent pause” on immigration from “Third World” countries. Blair notes the move ties into the Administration’s recent declaration that “mass migration poses an existential threat to Western civilization” and that governments “have the right – and obligation – to protect their people.”
