He makes an interesting case on numbers of people who died in the gulags, but doesn't come, even remotely, to grips with the overall terror and murder by Stalin that effectively began in the Ukraine and against the kulaks. Nor does he see the overall terror and murder system that started under Lenin and was perfected by Stalin. I was a 14 year old getting Ramparts when David and Peter Collier ran that distant memory of a magazine. However, I have a great deal of respect for Thomas Sowell and the Heritage Foundation folks. The need to raise the level of the discussion is something that interests me far more than indulging in this nonsense over Jacoby, who will, the way America works, become even more well known because of this fiasco.
Nothing sells like controversy, after all.
Every article that I have seen on the situation acknowledges that Jacoby independently confirmed the veracity of the facts in his column. It is your factchecking that appears to be problematical, not Jacoby's.