https://pjmedia.com/ronradosh/2012/04/21/three-american-professors-useful-idiots-of-the-regime-in-tehran/feed/PJ Media is a leading news site covering culture, politics, faith, homeland security, and more. Our reporters and columnists provide original, in-depth analysis from a variety of perspectives.en-usWed, 10 Jun 2026 06:19:19 -0400<![CDATA[In 2001, Michael Walzer, the Princeton professor and editor of the social-democratic magazine Dissent, wrote a much discussed essay called “Can There Be a Decent Left?” He was ambiguous, but hopeful, and very critical of those on the Left who after 9/11 still saw the United States as the only real enemy of the world’s people. There have been since then scores of events that have proven that the only answer to Walzer is that there cannot be, since the raison d’etre of the Left is the opposition to democratic capitalism and to any exertion of American power in the world.]]>Sat, 21 Apr 2012 17:12:17 -0400<![CDATA[Ron Radosh]]>https://pjmedia.com/ron-radosh/2012/04/21/three-american-professors-useful-idiots-of-the-regime-in-tehran-n184103