Does America Need a Sharansky?

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Does America Need a Sharansky?

Ever since Niall Ferguson, in the pages of The Free Press, propounded the thesis that the United States has increasingly come to resemble the USSR in its final years of decrepitude, a small cottage industry has arisen to take apart his contentions. The single most comprehensive critique is that of Cathy Young in the Bulwark, “Are We in ‘Soviet America’? Not Even Close.” Young found that the task of analyzing Ferguson’s contradictory mélange of c…