He appears to be one of those, um, journopolemicists who has a lot to say about e.g. "McCarthyism", but as someone pointed out in a blog, gets all mushmouthed and reticent about the atrocities of the Left.
He writes quite often about Communist parties and regimes, East and West.
I had never heard of him and didn't know anything about him. I just recognize the lingo.
Cordially,