A few weeks before the Presidential election, the auto and steel plants in the Chicago area were flooded with leaflets soliciting support for George Wallace. Here is a paragraph from one of them: The Negro today is the best-treated human being …
For reasons that should be obvious, a society tends to accept as excuses only those conditions which it is possible for its more advantaged members to satisfy. Any of us, no matter how wellborn, can suffer mental disorder. And so …
Two days before the Soviet army entered Czechoslovakia, I received a letter from a student friend in Prague. The writer is an intelligent young man who received his entire formal education under the Communist regime. He had participated vigorously in …
In a recent Newsweek article the economist Paul Samuelson wrote, “[this nation, economically,] belongs up there with the miracle nations of Japan and Israel … [Its] per capita living standards … have climbed rapidly relative to Western Europe … [and] its …
This book is concerned with explaining America’s sudden turn to overt imperial expansion in 1898-99 through the annexation of Puerto Rico and the Philippines. One might immediately ask why this is a historical problem since there can be no doubt …
Reading Robert Kennedy’s posthumous account of the momentous Cuban confrontation, I felt a shudder descending my spine. Realizing that the story hinged on the question whether to drive Khrushchev harder or to give him room for maneuver, I could not help …
I would like to enter an immodest protest against all the talk about “white racism” that we have been hearing since the Report of the President’s Commission on Civil Disorders. Since I have no statistics and can speak only out of …
Academic political scientists who want their students to think about the problem of liberty and the modern state are properly anxious to have them confront at first hand various contemporary theoretical positions on the relation between freedom and capitalism. The …
The present rush of automation and technological change has resulted in a cultural adjustment that resists the “tech-fixers.” It tends to preserve older values and the incorrigibility of human nature. For a contrary trend accompanies the “tech-fixing” syndrome, a kind …
On Mass Culture Editor: More power to “high culture,” by all means, but is Bernard Rosenberg’s cri de coeur really likely to contribute to the worthy cause he espouses?
Given the immediacy of war and starvation, it is tempting to regard the Nigerian conflict as a mere calamity, without considering causes. But this bloody African conflict must be the subject of historical contemplation as well as humanitarian response: we …
When four years of Republican rule end in January 1973, the United States of America is likely to be even more tom by internal crisis than it was in the last, shambling days of Lyndon Johnson’s Administration. I write this prediction …
Whatever the initiators of the Cultural Revolution had in mind when they launched it, they must have expected to carry it further than it has gone, for the present situation shows all the signs of an unfinished job. On the …
There is widespread agreement that lasting peace in Vietnam will require some sort of international presence to supervise the truce and lead to impartial control of the hoped-for free elections. Uncensored reports from South Vietnam stress the overwhelming war-weariness of …
First an admission of error, and then a few analytical notes. A few weeks before the Presidential election I began to recognize that I very much wanted Nixon defeated. That could only mean, Humphrey elected. I had written in Dissent that I …
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