The New York Times ran an obituary on Saturday for Joan Hinton*.  Hinton was the daughter of prominent American progressives. She grew up to become a physics student who worked on the Manhattan Project, but subsequently moved to Mao’s China, where she ran a dairy farm with her husband, who was likewise an American academic inspired by Mao’s “workers’ paradise.” After detailing the life story of this child of the left, the obituary closes with this chilling quote from Hinton: