Motus Mentis

We note that the left-wing polemicist Howard Zinn has died, of a heart attack, at the age of 87.

Professor Zinn, in whose eyes the United States of America was clearly the focus of evil in the modern world, was a familiar sight in my adopted hometown of Wellfleet, Massachusetts, where he was lionized by the town’s sizable part-time population of aging red-diaper Progressives (as is his friend and fellow-traveler Noam Chomsky, another longtime resident). I imagine the black bunting is going up already along Main Street; I have a feeling I’ll be spending the summer trying to contain myself.