John-Paul Pagano is a freelance writer who focuses on utopian and totalitarian ideas, mostly as they find expression in reaction to Israel and modernity. He examines the reliance of revolutionary politics on anti-Semitism and the failures of liberals and progressives responding to that dynamic. He has appeared in the algemeiner and The Jewish Press, and blogs at The Socialism of Fools and eponymously. Twitter: @johnpaulpagano
When Norman Geras passed away last month, the world lost an unusually articulate, indefatigable, left-wing thinker who opposed anti-Semitism, anti-Zionism,