In considering Obama’s embrace of Castro’s Cuban gang, it is useful to recall that the greatest danger free minds face today is the calculated rewriting of history.  Tsarist Russia, whose economy was growing much faster than any major nation’s through 1914 and whose cultural achievements amounted to a Golden Age, is invariably presented as horrible.  Republican China, the most vital and overlooked ally in the Second World War, which also had a thriving economy and remarkable scientific and artistic achievements, is likewise presented as corrupt and weak. Marxists made it their business to paint their predecessors as presiding over despicable regimes whose deliverance by communists was glorious and noble.  It is no surprise, then, that we know almost nothing at all about Cuba before Castro, and what we “know” (or think we know) is little more than the sort of crude and ugly caricature we have come to expect from radical leftists defining...(Read Full Article)