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tion that valued loyalty or discipline ever would have trusted Ruby, any more than Oswald, with anything — not the CIA, and not even the Mafia.

It made sense that the anti-American Left gravitated to a conspiratorial view of the JFK assassination. But now some on the Right are so disaffected from contemporary America that they, too, think that our history is a tale of the nightmarish scheming of shadowy forces.

We thought we were citizens of a decent, open society, when the truth, or so they believe, is that we live in the plot of an Oliver Stone movie.

Rich Lowry is editor of the National Review.

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