Lest it be thought that The American Historical Review has a monopoly on left-wing fantasy, we note that New York University’s Tamiment Library has just launched a website to commemorate the Alger Hiss Story. (No wonder that the Tamiment Library is colloquially referred to as the “Commie Archive” by members of the NYU community.) According to an article in NYU Today, a university publication, the website was launched on the occasion of the publication of the paperback edition of The View from Alger’s Window, a memoir by Hiss’s son Tony that, we read, reflects on “his father’s trial and imprisonment during the Cold War witch-hunts.” The story goes on to note that Hiss “would spend 44 months in prison—and the rest of his life fighting to clear his name. With conflicting evidence on both sides, his guilt or innocence continues to inspire debate.” In fact, the stor ...

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