The Fonda-Hayden Show

The following comment, slightly abbreviated, is reprinted with the author’s permission from the New York Post.

In their new incarnation, Tom Hayden and Jane Fonda talk brightly of “a new political era” in which California Gov. Jerry Brown—subject to change without notice—is apparently their highest hope.

But the crusade on which they have embarked seems to reflect much of the muddled doublethink that has increasingly characterized Brown’s own bid for national eminence.

It is in part an attempt to revive the passions of their earlier antiwar movement by permanently halting all uses of nuclear power (as if it were forever beyond mortal imagination to harness such energy for the elev...