About a week before Jeff Sharlet’s new book, The Undertow: Scenes from a Slow Civil War, was published in March, a new video was uploaded on YouTube. It was a short documentary from 1983 of when Harry Belafonte, an iconic American singer and actor, visited East Germany to perform in a concert promoting communism. The “World Peace Concert” was run by East Germany’s communist youth organization. Belafonte gave his blessings to the Soviet-sponsored campaign promoting unilateral Western disarmament.
In Nine Black Robes, the new book by CNN Supreme Court reporter Joan Biskupic, I am never mentioned by name. I am referred to only as “another boy.” Biskupic suggests, as many others on the Left have over the past few years, that I was “the boy” in the room when a teenage Brett Kavanaugh allegedly sexually assaulted a girl named Christine Blasey Ford in the summer of 1982.
Leonard Leo of the Federalist Society has revealed that he plans to “crush liberal dominance” across American life. Leo is launching the Teneo Network, a group he called “a tremendously important resource for the future of our country.”
A new surprise documentary recently played at the Sundance Film Festival. Justice looks into the sexual misconduct allegations against Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh in 2018. The film is being sold by filmmaker Doug Liman, who kept its existence a secret for years before premiering it to a sold-out theater surrounded by armed guards.