Nixon’s Dream—and Black Reality

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 are a few notes on the current political situation in the U.S., together with notes on some attendant but distinct problems.

The main goal of the Nixon Administration is the restoration of social order —social peace—in the United States. How this is to be achieved—by blunt op...