Robert Heinlein at One Hundred

The centennial of Robert Heinlein’s birth is coming up in July, and tempers are still worked up over this pulp fiction writer who turned into a consciousness-raising guru during the 1960s. Only a few weeks ago, a writer in The New York Times Book Review attacked Heinlein’s Starship Troopers as “an endorsement of fascism.” Heinlein's defenders rushed in …