In every age "the good old days" were a myth. No one ever thought they were good at the time. For every age has consisted of crises that seemed intolerable to the people who lived through them.

After visiting Yenan he wrote that the CCP political system was best described as an "agrarian or peasant democracy or as a farm labor party. He worked for The New York Times from 1925 to 1960. " Atkinson had covered the police beat for the Evening Transcript.

Justin Brooks Atkinson (November 28 1894 – January 14 1984) was an American theatre critic. ". He worked for The New York Times from 1925 to 1960.