I'm currently reading an outstanding new book, which I just purchased over the weekend: Useful Idiots by Mona Charen. I cannot recommend this book highly enough. It ought to be required reading for every American high schooler and college student (though fat chance that'll happen).

Charen documents in great detail the blood-soaked history of Communism in the 20th century and the American left's complicity in it. Though anti-communism in this country has often been seen by a sneering media as simple-minded reactionary McCarthyism (even the mere phrase "Cold War" was enough to send them into self-righteous titters until recently), the cold fact is that Communism was responsible for the torture and deaths of hundreds of millions of people in the 20th century. Which is something you rarely read about in the New York Times or saw on Walter Cronkite's evening newscast. The American left consistently turned a blind eye while hundreds of millions of Russians, Chinese, Vietnamese, Cambodians, etc. etc. etc. were starved to death, murdered, or tortured, all in the name of "brotherhood."

You should read this book, and if you have children in high school or college, you should make them read it.