Partisan Review and the varieties of Trotskyism. Media Log is way too unlettered to have anything intelligent to say about the demise of the legendary Partisan Review, which has been defunded by Boston University chancellor John Silber. (When you're ripe, it's time to go, eh, Dr. Silber?)

But this assessment in Slate, by Sam Tanenhaus, is smart and entertaining. I'll leave it to others to judge whether he also happens to be right.