Shades of red

Interview | Historian Ronald Radosh traces moviedom's left from the Popular Front to pop stars today | Marvin Olasky

The significance of Red Star over Hollywood (Encounter, 2005) lies in its subtitle: The Film Colony's Long Romance with the Left. Authors Ronald and Allis Radosh concentrate on the 1930s and the 1940s, but their work is relevant to the present because the tryst has been so protracted, with moviedom's leftists (such as Jane Fonda a generation ago and Tim Robbins or Sean Penn today) repeating the mistakes of their forebears: hating America, cheering for militants from other countries who would destroy us, and forgetting that talent in role-playing does not equal political discernment.

Ronald Radosh is the author of numerous books about American Communists, and in The Rosenberg Files he was the first writer to establish the guilt of nuclear bomb spy Julius Rosenberg. Mr. Radosh has looked extensively at records of the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC), a group much reviled by the left and in today's standard history texts.

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September 03, 2005, Vol. 20, No. 34

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