Lincoln Steffens: The Muckraking Journalist Who Exposed Corruption In US Cities (But Was Seduced By Lenin’s Bloody Revolution) – OpEd

By Lawrence W. Reed*

A century ago, the American journalist Lincoln Steffens visited the land of Lenin (the Soviet Union) and famously pronounced upon his return, “I have been over into the future, and it works.”

Steffens was known in his day as a “muckraker.” In this instance, the muck he was peddling was...