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Second-year Ohio State student Abby Silone showed a group of reporters how to use the automated carriers at the Aug. 19 demonstration.

The demonstration was temporarily halted over a slight snag — requiring Silone to change the settings on her app — but after the quick adjustment, one of the robots wheeled itself to nearby Drackett Tower to deliver the orange juice Silone ordered.

Max Eastman, Arthur Koestler, Whittaker Chambers, Sidney Hook, James Burnham, and Ignazio Silone—all these individuals, and others, too, had once been members or fellow-travellers of the Communist Party.

Silone built a movement; Koestler got an assignment.

Comparing the testimony of Silone, who helped create Italy’s Communist Party in the aftermath of 1917, to that of Koestler, who joined Germany’s Stalinized Communist Party in the nineteen-thirties, Deutscher observed that Silone had the opportunity to be “a revolutionary before he became, or was expected to become, a puppet.”