Reza Baraheni, born in Iran in 1935, is one of the leading modern poets of his country. In 1973 he was kidnapped by SA VAK, the secret police of Iran. During the 102 days of his imprisonment, he was repeatedly …
Late in 1976, the French Ministry of State for the Interior banned distribution of a book by Jean-Paul Alata, Prison d’Afrique (Editions du Seuil); the action was taken on the basis of a law of July 29, 1881 that authorizes …
I have recently been reading a number of academic studies on this subject and related themes—terrorism, guerrilla war, vigilantism, etc., and I have been struck by the clinical detachment of the tone of several of these studies. The writers appear …
The National Conference of Personnel Department Chiefs of County Distribution Centers took place that year at the beginning of April at the tried conference site on the shores of Lake Slapy. From Bohemia and Moravia came 7 chiefs, 3 from …
Different parts of the past are “alive” at different moments in the present. We are now witnessing an extraordinary upsurge of interest in the period that might be said to have begun with the proclamation of the Truman Doctrine in …
The Israeli election has been interpreted in very different ways by outside observers who know little about our political life and by our own experts who command a first-hand knowledge of Israeli society. To most outsiders, the primary significance of …
Since Barkin and Kerr had their say in 1961, union membership has increased by nearly 5 million. In most recent years, unions have been organizing new workers at an annual rate of about 250,000 and the 22 million Americans now …
New York After the Summer Looting The looting that took place during the power blackout in New York last July showed what should never have been forgotten. It showed that the social order in America contains deep segments of disaffection; …
I Let me begin this outline of the institutions of international inequity with a few definitions. That is not a matter of formalities, but it touches upon a fundamental, underlying concept: that underdevelopment is not a “thing.” What is critical …
Let us raise our glasses, let’s move them together! A toast to the Muses, a toast to reason! —Pushkin, Bacchic Song (1825) From ancient times, wine has added pleasure and animation to talk between friends. In those countries where vines …
I will offer here some thoughts about a recently published book by Fred Hirsch, Social Limits to Growth. The title seems to place the book in the framework of debates over the physical “limits to growth,” but its subject bears …
America in Our Time, by Godfrey Hodgson. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday. 564 pp. Godfrey Hodgson is an Englishman who first came to the United States as a graduate student in 1955, served as a Washington correspondent of the London Observer …
Less than five years after Willy Brandt’s triumphant reelection in 1972, the German Social Democratic party (SPD) finds itself in deep trouble. Under Brandt’s leadership, West Germany, the only major country on the continent without a significant Communist party, had …
She had planned a sort of plebiscite, a “yes” or “no” vote on her rule, and was positive of the outcome. Whoever heard of a dictator losing a plebiscite election, since Louis Bonaparte invented the technique? Everything remained under Mrs. …
On Sunday, March 16, 1969, President Richard Nixon and about six senior national security advisers approved a proposal to bomb neutral Cambodia. Their decision, and the 15-month bombing operation that followed, remained secret for more than three years from most …
