American Encounter

His first name, like Marzani’s, is Carl — Carl Braden (“... after Karl Marx,” he said, “but as a concession to public opinion my old man spelled it with a ‘C’ and left out the Marx....”). He is fifty years old, the father of three children and, for all his rugged appearance, a journalist by profession — a man who (“How else with a namesake like that?”) was twice sentenced to terms in prison, the f...