People everywhere enjoy believing things that they know are not true. It spares them the ordeal of thinking for themselves and taking responsibility for what they know.

After visiting Yenan he wrote that the CCP political system was best described as an "agrarian or peasant democracy or as a farm labor party. He worked for The New York Times from 1925 to 1960. " Atkinson had covered the police beat for the Evening Transcript.

Justin Brooks Atkinson (November 28 1894 – January 14 1984) was an American theatre critic. ". He worked for The New York Times from 1925 to 1960.