Commentary magazine published one very important essay of the 20th century in November 1979: “Dictatorships and Double Standards” by Jeane J. Kirkpatrick [snip]... Right-wing authoritarian regimes, she explained, controlled only the levers of power and thus didn’t tamper with the “habitual rhythms” of traditional societies; nor were they bent on revolution. [snip]... Communist systems and ideology sought to remake societies, claiming “jurisdiction over the whole life” of their peoples, and therefore destroyed them [snip]... for decades to come. [snip... no better example of this can be found than Russia, a superficially Europeanized society that sustained more than 70 years of...