The unhappy afterlife of ’60’s radicalism: “Now, more than a generation later, the Weathermen are back in the news. This summer, a new documentary, ‘The Weather Underground,’ directed by Sam Green and Bill Siegel, brought the group’s story into movie theaters. In September, one of the group’s most famous members, Kathy Boudin, was released on parole from the Bedford Hills Correctional Facility in upstate New York, where she had spent more than two decades after pleading guilty to a felony charge connected to a murder in the robbery of a Brink’s truck in 1981. Boudin’s release has in turn prompted the early release of Susan Braudy’s book ‘Family Circle: The Boudins and the Aristocracy of the Left‘ (Knopf).” —Boston Globe