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The unspeakable American culture

From What Next, the prophet misarmed: An essay on Trotsky, ecology and sustainability; and a review of Marx’s Das Kapital by Francis Wheen and Ramparts of Resistance: Why Workers Lost Their Power and How to Get It Back by Sheila Cohen. Still seeing Red: Passions continue to flare over U.S. communists and their loyalty to Stalin, even though most of the players are dead. An interview with Greg Grandin, author of Empire’s Workshop, on Che Guevara’s legacy. From Logos, an ex-Maoist looks at an ex-Trotskyite: On Irving Howe's Leon Trotsky; and an Arab view of the neocons and the oil lobby. More on The Israel Lobby. From Commentary, Joshua Muravchik on the past, present, and future of neoconservatism. Jonah Goldberg on the unspeakable American culture: Journalism's elite don't dare speak of the patriotism that holds this country together. David Neiwert on the Right’s base behavior. What passes for “conservatism” these days is a theater of scapegoating that fuels not just the anti-immigrant right but also the anti-gay, anti-black, anti-Muslim, anti-liberal rhetoric.