In his latest film, Weekend, Jean-Luc Godard attacks the phenomenon of violence. He piles horror on horror—adds gore, callousness, perversion, brutality, all culminating in cannibalism. Not since Hieronymus Bosch and Goya have we been exposed to such ghastly pictorial visions. …
The hippies are merely the latest in a continuous series of revolts by a younger generation against its fathers, both literal and symbolic. The process has become so much a natural development that it no longer occasions surprise—although always some …
The open society—insofar as it actually is open and fulfills its claims—is a standing invitation to trouble. Its liberties, tolerance, and constraints upon powerful minorities invite attack, license, and violence by the aggrieved, short-tempered, and politically unskilled. Its ideological commitment …
With much skill, Peter Brock has sought to tie together the many strands in the history of American pacifism from colonial times to 1914. Much of the material will be familiar to the students of the American peace movement, and …
Recently, confronted by the renewed repression of intellectual life in the Soviet Union and the rebellious movements in Czechoslovakia and Poland, the following argument has often been repeated in conversation and advanced in the press: The protest of intellectuals and …
First, let me provide some necessary background, and then discuss Nixon’s assuming the Presidency, and how his choice of Henry Kissinger as chief foreign policy adviser may affect the Paris negotiations. At the end of October 1968, after 28 sessions, …
Trying to understand the world we live in can drive a man out of his mind. The different levels of public life we can more or less make out. It’s the connections among them that are hard to grasp. Here …
One afternoon last summer I happened to be watching a TV discussion among five or six black teenagers. All were speaking out of a deep pride in their blackness, as it is almost mandatory to do today, and also out of …
The debate between Roy Wilkins and Roy Innis over demands by Negro students for separate black studies departments has major implications. The question they are arguing is whether separatism is a condition that black Americans should desire and, in fact, …
This Address was delivered on September 8, 1968, in Basel, Switzerland, and published in Die Zeit, October 4, 1968. Ladies and Gentlemen: This is not a protest meeting. Protest is a reaction to the injustice of the day. The injustice …
In December 1968, shortly after the last strike of New York’s United Federation of Teachers ended, its sister union, the United Federation of College Teachers, entered a collective bargaining election at the City University of New York. The UFCT’s opponent was …
Radical critics of American foreign policy often look to America’s socio-economic structure for the source of recent foreign policy failures, while reformist critics blame the decision-making structure. The critics’ prescriptions range from altering the pattern of ownership of the means of …
One of the most appealing themes of student radicals is that in the modern world the individual finds himself all but helpless against the power of enormous institutions, be they government agencies, private corporations, or multiversities. It now is possible …
It takes very little effort to get an argument going between generations about progress. Has there been any in the last couple of generations? Is this really the worst of all possible worlds at the worst of all possible times? …
Two strategies for radical change compete for the favor of those on the Left who are not willing to abandon electoral activity as the principal focus of their political efforts. Some favor building a new party. Others believe the main attempt …
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