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    On Philip Levine, the Workingman’s Poet

    Detroit, the Spanish Civil War, and the yearning for a perfect society

    byPaul Berman
  • Jarama.
    Jarama.
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    Finding My Grandfather, and Myself, on the Battlefields of the Spanish Civil War

    He joined the Abraham Lincoln Brigade in 1936, as a Jewish teenager from Brooklyn. This year, I retraced his steps.

    byA. Kenney
  • Kinderland, 1951.(Courtesy Katie Halper)
    Kinderland, 1951.(Courtesy Katie Halper)
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    ‘Commie Camp’ Documentary Captures Camp Kinderland’s Idealism, and Its Imperfections

    Once a utopian getaway for children of socialists and left-wing organizers, the camp remains an essential haven for ‘weird Jews’

    byNona Willis Aronowitz
  • Former Secretary Of State Henry Kissinger in Washington, D.C., circa 1975.(Owen Franken/Getty Images)
    Former Secretary Of State Henry Kissinger in Washington, D.C., circa 1975.(Owen Franken/Getty Images)
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    Happy Birthday, Mr. Kissinger

    The influential former secretary of state—courtier, careerist, proud American, conflicted Jew—turns 90

    byGil Troy
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    (Collage Tablet Magazine)
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    Stranger Than Pulp Fiction

    Crime writer Ed Lacy died 45 years ago. Few knew he was also a New Yorker contributor and communist darling.

    byRon Capshaw
  • Zuccotti Park this morning.(Emmanuel Dunand/AFP/Getty Images)
    Zuccotti Park this morning.(Emmanuel Dunand/AFP/Getty Images)
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    Is Occupy Wall Street Anti-Semitic?

    David Brooks cites objectionable article in related magazine

    byMarc Tracy
  • Jorge Semprún's obituary in El País, June 8, 2011.(David Serra Martín)
    Jorge Semprún's obituary in El País, June 8, 2011.(David Serra Martín)
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    Partisan

    The Spanish writer Jorge Semprún, who died in June, survived Buchenwald and had a love-hate relationship with Communism in postwar Europe. A longtime friend remembers his star power and derring-do.

    byBarbara Probst Solomon
  • Leon Trotsky.(Wikipedia)
    Leon Trotsky.(Wikipedia)
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    You Can’t Start a Revolution on MySpace!

    Doctrinal disputes impede progress yet again

    byMarc Tracy
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