There's a growing movement to build a memorial to Communism's dead on the National Mall, so that the current generation of Americans are made aware of the true nature of a philosophy that has justified the murder of at least 100 million people in the last 100 years. A Victims of Communism Memorial is desperately needed as milennials have no connection with America's bi-partisan, anti-Communist past. James Kirchuk writing in the Daily Beast: “Communism wasn’t responsible for any deaths,” my interlocutor said. “Crappy leaders were.”  How many times have you heard some formulation of this viewpoint? “Communism is an excellent idea in theory, it just hasn’t worked in practice.” I wish that was the sort of sentiment I only remembered from college dorm room bull sessions. (“Ok. How many more millions of people have to die before we get it right?” I always asked, incredulously).  Unfortunately,...(Read Full Post)