So, is the nation's obsession with the JFK assassination really caused by liberalism's inability to come to terms with the ideology of the assassin? It's definitely a plausible, and as far as I know new, way to look at the problem. However, to me the author (of the article, if not the book) provincialises the cultural upheaval of the 60s, seeming to me to make it out to be a singularly American event. On the contrary, the whole world experienced cultural upheaval of various sorts as the cadre born just after WWII came of age.

Still, the position that Oswald's undeniably pure communist belief represented a challenge to 60s liberals that they simply could not overcome is damned intriguing. I guess I'll have to buy the book and see if he really does pull off this historical 180 degree turn.

Via Instapundit.