In an era when dissent and unpopular opinions are as likely to be suppressed by moralizing “liberals” (sic) as they are by censorious “conservatives,” it’s instructive to recall a period in American history when things were quite different. It was the winter of 1916. Emma Goldman, the Red Queen of the Anarchist movement, had been invited to speak to the Civitas Club of Brooklyn, one of the best-known women’s clubs in the nation, whose blue-blooded, affluent members were not known for radicalism.
