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I grew up on the far South Side of Chicago, where both my parents had grown up as well; in fact, I went to the same high school that both of them attended (Fenger, whose most famous alumnus was Eliot Ness). My two brothers were much older than I was, so I was practically an only child. I went to the library religiously. I graduated third in a high school class of 729.

When I started college, as the first of my family to attend college, I was an Electrical Engineering major. After 8 weeks I had switched into Psychology, which horrified my parents. I was never really a science nerd, though, and didn’t like the Chemistry and Physics courses. Nonetheless, after a year of Psych, I decided I wanted to have a job when I left school, and I switched ...more

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Who'll Be the Next Walter Duranty?

You know who Zohran Mamdani is, of course, and the polls rate him the likely next Mayor of New York City.

But who was Walter Duranty? As the New York Times’ Russian correspondent, he was a Pulitzer-winning Useful Idiot for Joseph Stalin in the 1930’s. We’d like to guess who will play that role when Mamdani becomes Mayor of New York. But first, let’s see what Duranty did during the Holodomor, and t

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