At the Wall Street Journal, Michael Moynihan reviews A Difficult Woman, a biography of Lillian Hellman, written by Alice Kessler-Harris.  Moynihan puts it all in perspective with:

Despite voluminous evidence to the contrary, Ms. Kessler-Harris insists that Hellman’s “concern for accuracy persisted throughout her life.” Not when it came to her memoirs and certainly not when it came to communism’s crimes.

Hear, hear.  It’s about time these things stopped being soft-lighted and people full of supposed social concern stopped being given a pass for supporting unspeakably evil regimes.  Read the review here.  And if you haven’t, just for the sake of perspective, consider buying and reading  The Black Book Of Communism.