Cathy Young on the shadow of the French Revolution

Cathy Young is a writer who contributes to Reason, Newsday, and Arc Digital. Born in the Soviet Union, she immigrated to the United States as a teen in the 1980s. Young is the author of Growing Up in Moscow: Memories of a Soviet Girlhood and Ceasefire!: Why Women and Men Must Join Forces to Achieve True Equality.

She first came to my attention as a heter…