IN EARLY 1944 I was 17 years old, in my senior year at Eastern District High School in Brooklyn, New York, and, after several summers spent working as a comic at Catskills resorts, knew that I wanted to go into show business. But Hitler had started a war. One day a U.S.

Karl Marx famously dubbed religion "the opium of the people." The blood-drenched history of communism-that is, full-fledged socialism, as established in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and elsewhere-is thoroughly documented. But despite the horror of socialism's history, numerous U.S. college professors continue to uphold it as a moral ideal.

The spy agency is known for its sometimesquestionable tactics and violations of other nations' sovereignty in order to carry out its duties. And sometimes those actions, while alarming and despicable, may even be justified for national security. But now the CIA just got exposed for the most massive conspiracy of...