As a lifelong Yankees fan (my earliest baseball memory is Moose Skowron grounding out to end the 1957 World Series), I am, of course, overjoyed by the renewal of the Ruth-Gehrig-DiMaggio-Mantle dynasty. These Yankees -- whose fourteen consecutive wins in Series games (ended in game three of the…

Hollywood has a checkered record in its portrayal of communism. On the occasions when it has dealt with the subject, it has tended -- not surprisingly for a mass entertainment industry -- to reflect the public feeling of the times: solidarity with the Soviets during World War II, a general…