The treatment of Eisenhower by historians has become as interesting as the history of his presidency per se. Revisionists looking back on his Administration through the prisms of Vietnam, the collapse of the Great Society, and double-digit inflation have discovered …
Roger Baldwin was one of those extraordinary men who leave a permanent imprint on their society. His death at age 97 last summer left behind an America significantly more tolerant of dissent and more open to change because of his …
The treatment of Eisenhower by historians has become as interesting as the history of his presidency per se. Revisionists looking back on his Administration through the prisms of Vietnam, the collapse of the Great Society, and double-digit inflation have discovered …
It is not a happy moment at which I appear before you to offer my thoughts on the Jewish Problem. It evidently exists once again and, indeed, on an international scale. It’s “Brotherhood Week.” But where are the brothers? If …
When 33 Haitians, whose frail craft had capsized, drowned and were washed ashore on Florida beaches last November while 34 others managed to swim ashore, what do you suppose agitated some government officials, apart from their declared policy of preventing …
David Brody is a bright young scholar who has made a serious effort to bring a new perspective to the study of American trade unions. His views are contained in this group of essays, which might more appropriately have been …
Neither Eisenhower nor Nixon nor Ford tried to tamper with the welfare state initiated by Roosevelt. In fact, all of them extended it to a significant extent. Now, almost 50 years after its inception, the growth of the welfare state …
In late 1971 and early 1972, for over seven months, 38,000 craft and clerical employees of New York Telephone struck in defiance of our employer and our national union, the Communication Workers of America. The strike was the culmination of …
Tomas Lindstrom is a commercial airline pilot. He was selected for the job because of his intelligence, physical strength, and mental stamina – characteristics that are critical for the complex and varied decisions a pilot must make during flight time. …
Dennis H. Wrong makes a convincing case for his belief that the present decline of liberalism in American politics is more than a normal turn in a cyclical pattern (in “How Critical Is Our Condition,” Fall 1981). Not only does …
The Social Democratic party (SDP) was launched in March 1981. It appeared at once as the most serious challenge to the British party system since Labour began to contend for national office in the 1920s, and as the biggest split …
We print this remarkable article—perhaps the most comprehensive portrait yet drawn of the inner workings of Salvadoran politics—as part of a group commissioned by the Mexican monthly Vuelta, edited by Octavio Paz, and the Foundation for the Study of Independent …
Four comments on Dennis Wrong’s article in our last issue — by Tom J. Farer, Mark Levinson, Seymour Martin Lipsit, Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. — with a reply by Dennis Wrong Dennis Wrong has written a modest essay, perhaps more modest …
“II f there is nothing sublime in the commonplace,” argues historian Randall Miller in his introduction to one segment of Dear Master, “there is continuity.” How alien to our usual notions about history is such logic! More in love with …
Every political theorist hopes that his concepts and distinctions will turn, magically, into common currency, so that men and women on the street will talk exactly as he does. And he fears at the same time that his work will …
