The Politics and the Pity

“We are all German Jews” chanted 50,000 Frenchmen at the gates of the Bastille in 1968; I was recently reminded of this episode, which has become revolutionary lore, when Holocaust was sho

Daniel Singer

The Sound and the Furet

History may not have come to a stop in 1989, but the public is still under the spell of the counterpoint in Francis Fukuyama’s famous exercise in propaganda: Capitalism is eternal because there i

Daniel Singer

Allen Weinstein’s Docudrama

Let’s start with the Random House press release, replete with “Praise for Perjury“–a reissue of Allen Weinstein’s book on the Hiss-Chambers case.

Victor Navasky

The Marching Saint

Staughton Lynd, although he would never admit it, is one of the visible saints of the modern American left.

Paul Buhle

Last Night in Havana

Richard Blanco

ADK

Alexander Cockburn

Full Metal Jacket

The Marine Corps training camp where the first, and more striking, half of Full Metal Jacket takes place looks more like a medical facility than a military one.

Terrence Rafferty

Earache

Christopher Hitchens

Let Justice Roll Down

“Those who expected a cheap victory in a climate of complacency were shocked into reality by Selma.”

Martin Luther King Jr.