![](https://prospect.org/downloads/21585/download/AUG24%20Meyerson.jpg?cb=4fc503e976b36aabd4b2fd2fe10824d3&w=1200)
Red Weather Vanes
This article appears in the August 2024 issue of The American Prospect magazine. Subscribe here. Reds: The Tragedy of American Communism By Maurice Isserman Basic Books From the late 1970s through the 1990s, a good chunk of my ongoing political education …