TOM HAYDEN, AMERICAN TURNCOAT: City Journal’s Sol Stern, who knew Hayden personally in the 1960s, looks back at his life (the very definition of  radical chic) and concludes

Hayden’s life in politics after the 1960s proved that he and his intellectual hero Mills were wrong when they claimed that the democratic system was rigged. Hayden collaborated with America’s enemy during wartime and was never punished. He conspired to start a riot in Chicago to disrupt the Democratic Party, yet he beat the federal rap. He entered electoral politics and helped push the Democratic Party so far to the left that it would be unrecognizable to the 1968 Chicago protesters. When Hayden died, the mainstream media’s obituaries celebrated his achievements in human rights but erased from history his advocacy for violent revolution.

Only in America—where nothing is written in stone, where anything is possible as long as we have elections and free speech—is a life like Tom Hayden’s possible.

Read the whole thing.

Earlier: Ron Radosh on The Truth About the Late Tom Hayden—Whitewashed by the MSM.