Paul Hollander (1932–2019) was a sociologist, Communist-studies scholar, and the author of  From Benito Mussolini to Hugo Chavez: Intellectuals and a Century of Political Hero Worship, Political Pilgrims: Western Intellectuals in Search of the Good Society, Understanding Anti-Americanism: Critiques at Home and Abroad, The End of Commitment: Intellectuals, Revolutionaries, and Political Morality in the Twentieth Century, and more.