“The same policy that led us, in countries like Poland, to champion the rights of the ordinary Poles, led us, in countries like Vietnam, to outdo the communists themselves at exterminating the peasantry. It became a monstrosity, that policy.”
The ever-astute culture critic James Wolcott covered the fans, the stars, the ephemera, the merch, and the meaning of it all, live from the Statler Hilton in Midtown.