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Critic's Picks: The tragic twilight of Leon Trotsky Critic's Picks: The tragic twilight of Leon Trotsky

A gripping new account captures the October Revolution's great intellectual facing doom (and feeding bunnies)
  • Those ignorant atheists

    In this witty book, Terry Eagleton argues that Richard Dawkins, Christopher Hitchens and their ilk are shockingly ill-informed about the Christian faith.
  • It's a seafood-couscous Christmas!

    Vivid Arab-French immigrant yarn "Secret of the Grain" is a near-masterpiece; fascinating Brecht documentary "Theater of War" describes one.
  • Revolution in shades of gray

    Steven Soderbergh talks about his maddening, messy near-masterpiece "Che," an aloof and ambiguous portrait of the much-loved, much-hated Marxist icon.
  • Talkin' Paul Broun Paranoid Blues

    It takes a truly brave dissenter to grasp the extent of Barack Obama's hatred of freedom, motherhood and pie.
  • He conquered the World Trade Center

    "Man on Wire" and its daredevil star thrill Tribeca, but Mamet's "Redbelt" is a jiu-jitsu pratfall. Plus: Is Brecht still relevant?
  • From each according to his IPO

    Stalin would have loved Silicon Valley's dot-communists. Too bad they got purged.
  • Furniture buyers of the world, unite!

    Seeking the triumph of socialism? Look no further than your local Ikea megastore.
  • No light in his attic

    For the tragic impact a "progressive," PC education has on minority students of great promise, look at the sad case of Harvard's Cornel West.
  • Circus roboticus

    A troupe of robots forces audiences to confront the terrors of late 20th century life.
  • The myth weavers

    Three leading leftist figures have been exposed this year as having lied about their backgrounds. Has the failure of their ideology forced them to fictionalize?
  • Letters to the Editor

    Why should Internet millionaires date gold-diggers? Plus: The Irish still suffer; Horowitz is no conservative!
  • A Trotskyist libertarian cyberpunk?

    Ken MacLeod, science fiction's freshest new writer, achieves the highly improbable with wit and style.
  • "An engine of anarchy"

    Ken MacLeod talks about his rebellious youth, his political paradoxes and the visionary power of cyberpunk.
  • The Marxist Wall Street couldn't ignore

    How did an English doctoral drop-out like Doug Henwood become the first anti-capitalist pundit for the CNN crowd?
  • Upside-down politics

    Our political vocabulary is so out of date that we call the true revolutionaries among us "conservatives" and the reactionaries "liberals."
  • Bul[****]

    WARREN BEATTY, RICH HOLLYWOOD LIBERAL, ATTEMPTS TO SHOVE A TATTERED MARXISM DOWN POOR SUCKERS' THROATS.
  • Smashing the state

    The strange rise of libertarianism

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