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In reading Corey Robin’s new book, The Reactionary Mind I came across a review he wrote for the London Review of Books in 2004 of Greg Granlin’s Colonial Massacre: Latin America in the Cold War. How could any serious examination of the reactionary mind— particularly the American reactionary mind— not deal with the enormity of what was visited (by reactionary minds) on the Mayan native people of Guatemala, the ones whose ancestors had managed to escape being slaughtered in previous centuries by Spanish imperialists? And whose reactionary mind— albeit an extraordinarily weak one— would be better to start with than Ronald Reagan’s?

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