For years, I would cringe each time I saw Anna Quindlen?s column on the last page of Newsweek. (This was a biweekly occurrence, since Quindlen traded back-page space with George Will.)
Now Quindlen is gone, Will has moved closer to the front of the magazine, and Newsweek?s new ?back story? usually offers some graphic-heavy feature.
I couldn?t find this week?s feature online, but the headline says it all: ?Was Russia Better Off Red?? Comparing pre- and post-1991 statistics for population, life expectancy, and nine other measures, the magazine suggests that communism might not have been such a bad thing after all.
That sound you hear is Alexander Solzhenitsyn spinning in his grave, along with the millions slaughtered in the name of communism.
Anna Quindlen’s cluelessness would be a welcome alternative to this piece.
