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  • Ronald Reagan awarding Burnham the Presidential Medal of Freedom, 1983
    Ronald Reagan awarding Burnham the Presidential Medal of Freedom, 1983
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    The Importance of James Burnham

    What a newly rediscovered thinker got right and wrong

    byMichael Lind
  • Anti-Bolshevism poster, published by the propaganda department of Odessa during the short independence of the Ukrainian State, 1918 or 1919. This poster shows a blood-oozing Trotsky on the walls of the Kremlin Palace. In the foreground Mongol soldiers are shooting a captive Russian peasant.
    Anti-Bolshevism poster, published by the propaganda department of Odessa during the short independence of the Ukrainian State, 1918 or 1919. This poster shows a blood-oozing Trotsky on the walls of the Kremlin Palace. In the foreground Mongol soldiers are shooting a captive Russian peasant.
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    The Phantom Menace of Judeo-Bolshevism

    How a political fantasy became an excuse for genocidal anti-Semitism

    byDavid Mikics
  • Judith Clark, member of the Weather Underground accused of murder, robbery and assault in the shooting of two police officers and a security guard, at her arraignment, November 24, 1981.
    Judith Clark, member of the Weather Underground accused of murder, robbery and assault in the shooting of two police officers and a security guard, at her arraignment, November 24, 1981.
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    Fanaticism and the New York State Parole Board

    The case of Judith Clark

    byPaul Berman
  • (Clockwise from top left: La Laetti/Flickr, urbanartcore.eu/Flickr, frischundsauber/Flickr, Christian Dalager/Flickr, ms.akr/Flickr, Xurxo Martínez/Flickr, svennevenn/Flickr, and Sr. X/Flickr.)
    (Clockwise from top left: La Laetti/Flickr, urbanartcore.eu/Flickr, frischundsauber/Flickr, Christian Dalager/Flickr, ms.akr/Flickr, Xurxo Martínez/Flickr, svennevenn/Flickr, and Sr. X/Flickr.)
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    Karl Marx: The Greatest Intellectual Fraud of the 19th and 20th Centuries

    An impressive new biography looks at the original Jewish leftist—and shines light on the appeal of radical politics for Jews

    byDavid Mikics
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    A Son of David?

    Today on Tablet

    byThe Editors
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    Trotsky the Jew

    Joshua Rubenstein’s new biography obscures the Russian revolutionary’s violent extremism while overemphasizing his Jewishness

    byRichard Pipes
  • Soviet tourism poster for Odessa.(Boston Public Library)
    Soviet tourism poster for Odessa.(Boston Public Library)
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    Brittle Odessa

    Cosmopolitan yet barbarous, Jew-filled and Jew-free, remote but central—a new history explores the Black Sea port city’s many contradictions

    byWesley Yang
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    Clockwork

    The Sabbath is but one of the Jewish contributions to the science of keeping time

    byJoshua Cohen
  • Leon Trotsky(Wikimedia Commons)
    Leon Trotsky(Wikimedia Commons)
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    The Firebrand

    A new biography tries to extinguish the myth of the kinder, gentler Trotsky

    byAdam Kirsch
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    It’s a Small World

    Albert Kahn’s 100-year-old photography project brought humanity into focus

    byMark Cohen
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