The magazine he drew for really doesn't see the whole picture. Andrew Sullivan found a subtle revision of history in the latest issue:

Classic little throw-away in a New Yorker essay this week:

The other day at the Pierre Hotel, Mikhail Gorbachev, the man who ended the Cold War, was in an elevator...

Yes, and the United States had nothing to do with it.

If the New Yorker did sports, last week's headline story would begin with, "The Chicago Cubs, who ended this year's National League Championship series..."