In 1989, Francis Fukuyama, a little-known Sovietologist and deputy director of the State Department’s Office of Policy Planning, published an article in a Washington journal, The National Interest, ...

This commentary was originally published in the Times Union on June 11, 1989, a week after the Chinese government’s violent crackdown on student protesters in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square. Louis C.

A spectre is haunting Washington — the spectre of communism. Earlier this month, in a robust 327-62 bipartisan vote, the US House of Representatives passed a McCarthyite bill requiring high school ...