ShiningPath

Over the past few weeks, as the stock market has had bigger mood swings than Judy Garland popping pills on Christmas day while riding a roller coaster during an earthquake, the news has almost entirely focused either on the travails of average Americans or on the morally repugnant machinations of...

When I was an undergraduate, one of my friends was dating a girl from Latin America. Her brother, the one that nobody ever talked about, was a member of Shining Path, the guerilla Communist group in Peru. Every so often, he would send her a letter on the group's stationery, which prominently...