May 3, 2002

Ali vs. Hitchens: Battle on the Left

By MICHAEL BERUBE

Over the past five years, I've begun to catalog and dissect all the myriad divisions on the left -- between intellectuals and labor, identity politicians and aging New Leftists, Judith Butler and Martha Nussbaum, In These Times and Social Text. In fact, just as I was deciding that I had to write my next book on the topic, the endgame of the 2000 presidential election pitted Naderites against Goreans, and I began to hope that Nader would pull 5 percent of the national vote and qualify for

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