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Matusow: Boomerang Boy

Travers Clement ▪ Summer 1955

But cruel are the times, when we are traitors And do not know ourselves, when we hold rumour From what we fear, yet know not what we fear, But float upon a wild and violent sea Each way and move. …

THE GREAT CRASH, 1929, by John Kenneth Galbraith. Houghton, Mifflin Co., Boston. 1955 212 pages. $3.00 When John Kenneth Galbraith, the noted Harvard economist, testified recently before the friendly Fulbright committee on the condition of the stock market, prices …

Sidney Hook Chats with Karl Marx

Irving Howe ▪ July 1, 1955

VISITS TO OTHER WORLDS have often been thought of as difficult, even traumatic experiences. Through the fantasy of spatial travel, the visitor would try to confront elements within his thought or feeling he had previously hesitated to acknowledge. But, apparently, …

On Knowledge and Power

C. Wright Mills ▪ Summer 1955

I During the last few years I have often thought that American intellectuals are now rather deeply involved in what Freud once called “the miscarriage of American civilization.” I do not know exactly what he meant by the phrase, although …

Big Business on the Dole…

B.R. ▪ Summer 1955

The liberals, as they warm up for 1956, begin again their perennial pursuit of issues. Not much remains to them. They have muted their criticism in most areas, renounced it completely in others. Now, however, a convenient amnesia has set …

The Chimera of Conservatism

Eugene Victor Walter ▪ Summer 1955

The rise of conservatism among American intellectuals has provoked ironic comment here and there but few attempts to explore its sources in the condition of society or to articulate its living function or to surmise its fate. Despite the recent …

A Great Sociologist

Lewis Coser ▪ Summer 1955

CONFLICT, by George Simmel. Free Press. $3.50. The name of Georg Simmel is barely known in America, and that only among professional sociologists. This is a pity, since Simmel is one of the handful of eminent European sociological theorists …

British Labor’s Self-Examination

William J. Newman ▪ Summer 1955

Ever since the Labor Party came to power in England a decade ago, its achievements and shortcomings have been a subject of first importance for socialists, as indeed for everyone else interested in politics. Several articles in DISSENT—one by Stanley …

A Socialist Organization in the U.S. Today?

Gordon K. Haskell and Lewis Coser ▪ Summer 1955

A Socialist Organization in the U.S. Today?─Yes! Gordon Haskell In his article “Sects and Sectarians” which appeared in the Autumn 1954 issue of DISSENT, Lewis Coser calls for the dissolution of all existing socialist organizations in America. The following is …

America, the Country and Myth

Irving Howe ▪ Summer 1955

One frequently hears these days that socialists cling to a stereotyped picture of American life. Failing to see the subtle and even gross changes that have taken place during the past few decades, they focus on an abstraction called “capitalism” …

The Legend of Edmund Burke

Bertram D. Sarason ▪ Summer 1955

In the hope of exorcising the fears of their liberal readers (perhaps the most anxious readers they have) that Conservatism is little more than a revival of crude reaction, the New Conservatives have had to give certain intellectual assurances. These …