From Anarchy, an article on Proudhon's Ghost: Petit-bourgeois anarchism, anarchist businesses, and the politics of effectiveness. From Workers' Liberty, 1917 + 90: Leon Trotsky — Stalinism and Bolshevism. An excerpt from Marxism, History & Socialist Consciousness by David North. A review of Comrades! A World History of Communism, by Robert Service. From The Weekly Standard, The Horror! The Horror! The paranoid style of the American left. When the left wasn't right: A review of The Fall-Out: How a Guilty Liberal Lost His Innocence by Andrew Anthony. A review of Camelot and the Cultural Revolution by James Piereson.
Is neoconservatism dead? The Bush administration may be in a tail-spin but neo-conservatism will survive because it feeds on deeply-rooted fears. The Paul Wolfowitz of the '60s: Today's neocons echo Walt Rostow, the ideologue who helped push the U.S. into an ill-fated war. A review of The Israel Lobby and US Foreign Policy by John J Mearsheimer and Stephen M Walt. A review of Jews and Power by Ruth R. Wisse (and more from Commentary). The objective anti-Semites: Robin Shepherd is not the first person to try and define the world's oldest hatred, but he is perhaps one of the most unlikely. From Zeek, We Ourselves are to Blame: An article on Hannah Arendt’s Jewish writings. From Forward, the genocide collisions of August should make us re-examine the moral principles we have created for ourselves in the wake of the Holocaust, and consider whether they reflect the realities of today’s cold, hard world.
From Time, Mother Teresa's Crisis of Faith: Her secret letters show that she spent almost 50 years without sensing the presence of God in her life. What does her experience teach us about the value of doubt? Did Mother Teresa believe in God? Christopher Hitchens, the nun's leading critic, argues that her crisis of faith—revealed in newly published letters—was brought on by the crushing unreasonableness of the Roman Catholic Church. The introduction to Vatican II: A Sociological Analysis of Religious Change by Melissa J. Wilde. Christ comes back to the market: A new mall-based house of worship suggests a church moving with the times. A review of Eat This Book: A Conversation in the Art of Spiritual Reading and The Jesus Way: A Conversation on the Ways That Jesus Is the Way by Eugene Peterson.
