One approaches novels that have been as highly praised as Nadine Gordimer’s Burger’s Daughter with a certain caution. About one-fourth of the way into the novel, however, all caution breaks down, and the reader finds himself ready to acknowledge that …
To ask about the new feminism and contemporary American culture, I must begin with Le Deuxieme Sexe, which Simone de Beauvoir published in France 31 years ago. Joyless but monumental, that book articulated a concept of woman that American feminists, …
When I was teaching for a few years at Stanford in the early ’60s, that excellent university was as politically dormant as American universities were then supposed to be. Perhaps the first political meeting held on campus in some years …
Since the late ’60s American business has consolidated its organizational structure so as to vastly increase its political and economic power. A recent Fortune magazine article, entitled “Business is Learning How to Win in Washington,” detailing many such changes, opens …
At the 1979 meeting of the American Sociological Association in Boston, one session was devoted to a debate between Lewis Coser and Lewis Feuer on the subject, “Should We Bury Karl Marx?” Feuer said yes, Coser no. We print here …
The Carter administration, with the support of key congressional committees, has deliberately fostered recession and unemployment, and has steadily curtailed expenditures for human services. Thereby the pattern of “political business cycles,” previously associated with Republican administrations, continues. While the circumstances …
POLITICAL THEORY AND INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS, by Charles R. Beitz. Princeton: Princeton University Press. 212 pp. Cloth, $16.50; paper, $3.95. There are today, in the poor countries of the world, roughly 900 million people who live in absolute poverty—”a condition of …
One of the classic pitfalls in setting policies for the social use of technology is the search for a “technical fix”—a resolution of social and political contradictions through the introduction of new technology. The technical fix represents an attempt to …
Community Organizing Editors: Michael Walzer’s “Pastoral Retreat of the New Left” is sympathetic [Dissent, Fall 1979]; but some facts are wrong. The only organizations he mentions specifically in his critique of the trends in community organizing are the Midwest Academy, …
For a number of historical reasons, religious and national identity in Poland have over a long period become almost indistinguishable; nowhere else has the convergence been so strong (with the possible exception of Ireland). Since the definitive triumph of the …
On October 2, 1964, shortly after his meeting with Sukarno, Nikita Sergeevich Khrushchev flew south for a holiday, which he spent in his newly built dacha not far from Sochi. The dacha was a real palace: its indoor swimming pools …
Otis L. Graham, Jr. Immigration policy is a subject most Americans would rather avoid; it has to do with keeping people out of the country, and in a nation of immigrants that is a thought painful to contemplate. On any …
Few books in the history of political theory have made so strong an impression as A Theory of Justice, by John Rawls. Rawls’s book, published in 1971, is an effort to deal with a question of enormous importance: how will …
This book has many virtues. It is a well-documented, well-written and lively study of one of the crucial periods in modern labor history: the triumph of the UAW-CIO over that citadel of the open shop, the Ford Motor Company, and …
We asked several of our editors to comment on the changed international situation after the Russian invasion of Afghanistan. There will be a second round in the next issue. – EDS.
