[Liz]

Nice deconstruction.

BTW, Ann Coulter is a social critic, and a good one.

[Liz]

In 1992, Russia's first post-Communist leader, Boris Yeltsin, made a historic decision to open the nation's archives to Western scholars and historians. Yeltsin was anxious to expose the misdeeds of past Soviet leaders, and his decision opened the floodgates on evidence that proved profoundly discomfiting to apologists for the Communist system. Together with the Venona documents - 3,000 intercepted and decoded cables between Moscow and the Soviet officials in the Unied States regarding espionage - which were declassified in 1997, the new material caused a veritable upheaval in historic research.

For your reading delectation.

[CatoRenasci]

Thanks.

I think your characterization of Ann as a social critic is fair and helpful. And, I agree she is good at it. As much as I enjoy her as an appetizer, my preference is for more scholarly main courses, but de gustibus non disputandam.