The Anti-Hero

The last two films lionizing Ernesto Guevara, 2004's The Motorcycle Diaries and the upcoming four-hour Che, have occasioned passionate and eloquent denunciations by two great writers of Anglo-American liberalism. Paul Berman, whose intellectual histories of the generation of May '68 are legend, illuminated Che's despotic side in Slate. British writer Johann Hari wrote recently for The Huffington Post of the ignorance and insidiousness of the cult surrounding the man most commonly seen as a T-shirt silhouette. Read both of these pieces; historical integrity depends on it.