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. I. Dennis H. Wrong The Soviet Union has acted before …
As the mass media focus our attention on international relations in the Middle East, we are too often distracted from equally explosive internal affairs. Time bombs tick away and jolt us only when they erupt. (Perhaps an early warning system …
If the New Left put an indelible mark on the ’60s, the neoconservatives will surely become a major part of the image of the past ten years. Peter Steinfels’s anatomy of their ideology would be important if only because he …
Although few if any men in the United States remain entirely untouched by the women’s movement, to most men what is happening seems to be “out there,” having little direct effect on their own lives. The movement is, to them, …
Although schisms are nothing new to Western Marxism, the past decade or so has witnessed one doctrinal parting of the ways that is without precedent in the annals of this troubled theory. I refer to the ever-widening gulf between the …
My minimal sense of kinship with the historical profession expands substantially whenever it is glibly attacked by journalists. America Revised provokes unprecedented solidarity with teachers of history at all levels. This lapse from detachment, frankly confessed, has advantages for a …
In the first pages of the first volume of his memoirs, Henry Kissinger remarks with some bitterness about the way he was treated by McGeorge Bundy, his dean at Harvard and a predecessor as National Security Adviser to the President. …
A fascinating thesis that Daniel DeLeon’s immersion in the novels of Eugene Sue—many of which he translated into English—had left him deeply influenced by The Wandering Jew, a Sue novel he did translate, is explored in Glen Seretan’s informed book …
Apocalypse Now is a piece of visionary propaganda about the Vietnamese war— oppressively ugly for most of its length, with an emotional sordidness that teases and at last wears down and baffles the audience—a confidently brutal film, grating in its …
The United States is clearly in the midst of a “conservative revival.” As usual in such cases of “mood shift,” the revival is spearheaded by intellectuals—particularly those who cluster around the Committee on the Present Danger and Public Interest. Symptoms …
I know that I have the very uncomfortable habit of saying not what is advantageous at a given moment, but whatever I believe to be the truth. I never concealed what I think of literary servility, toadyism and coat changing. …
Students aren’t what they used to be. In the Good Old Days everyone learned. At least everyone learned to read. Immigrant children from Europe at the turn of the century worked hard at school and succeeded. Why can’t kids today …
The Portuguese revolution came at an inopportune moment for the superpowers. The height of the crisis in Portugal was sandwiched between the summits at Vladivostok (November 24, 1974) and at Helsinki (August 1, 1975), and while both East and West …
Iran’s presidential election of January 25, 1980, which took place almost a year after the fall of the Shah in February 1979, and the insurrection in Tabriz that preceded the election by a few weeks may well come to be …
James T. Farrell (1904-1979) is usually hailed as the author of Studs Lonigan, a book he survived by 45 years and roughly as many books. Yet if there is anything James Farrell was not, it was a one-book author. Studs …
