I may be the last person in the global left to interview Molly Crabapple about her book, Here Where We Live Is Our Country, which debuted on the New York Times bestseller list. Not clean, in terms of inculcating feelings, of like Here Where We Live is Our Country. Sometimes, it’s said joyously and defiantly, and sometimes, it’s said with bitter irony, and sometimes, it’s said as a lament, like: Dear god, here in this hell—this is where we live as our country? In the hands of Stalin, it turns the country into a massive killing field that probably murdered more socialists than any other country in Europe. And he looks at this, and he starts crying, and he’s like: This country that was so racist, it’s overcome racism.