The American Spectator has posted up a tribute to the late Tom Bethell, one of the great conservative journalists in Washington in the 1970s and 1980s, and in this excerpt recalls how Bethell popularized Joe Sobran's analysis of the left's hive mentality—more useful than ever today: Left-wing individuals and organizations have disguised their agenda by adopting a new system of communication, one in which the crude old formulas such as