Anti-Climacus

LINK: Obit of the famous movie director Elia Kazan, who was best known for naming names to the House Un-American Activities Committee of Communist Party members in Hollywood. When this was a big deal a few years ago, I took the good old-fashioned liberal position of not liking him for selling out his friends. But I'll be brutally honest here: you had to be an idiot not to know what was going on in Russia at the time, and anyone who remained a Stalinist nevertheless (as CPUSA party members were) deserved everything that happened to them (the most damning indictment coming from Mary McCarthy, in her essay "My Confession," the first quote on the left coming therefrom).