• Reviews of Hobsbawm’s latest: Terry Eagleton in LRB, Gregory Elliott in NLR.
• Just a two months after Salmaan Taseer’s murder, Shahbaz Bhatti is killed.
• But there are some signs of resistance in the United States . . .
• The stakes are high: the struggle in Wisconsin could be a new PATCO moment.
• The Gaddafi regime is collapsing, but look at its friends — Giddens, Fukuyama . . .
• The new Left Business Observer is out.
• Blast from the past: Hitchens defends Trotsky against his worst biographer.