What happened to Yoshie? Politically, she's always irritated the hell out of me, but that was because of major philosophical differences. Back in the day, at least her by-the-book Leninism was by turns interesting, provacative, or harmless. But this Green Party-populist turn she's taken in the last couple years--which, probably not coincidentally, has been accompanied by a severe moralizing streak--is very creepy. Her embrace of the Iran regime, however "critical," gives me the shivers.... I want to spin some cautionary tale about how easily statist-socialist politics can warp into statist-reactionary politics, or about how for many on the left principled anti-racism, -sexism, and -imperialism is a disguise for/must take a backseat to anti-Americanism. But that would be churlish and not in my character.