Poverty in the United States remains a widespread and persistent problem. In 1975 the Census Bureau reported that nearly 26 million persons had incomes, or were living in households having incomes, that fell below the so-called poverty threshold ($5,500 for …
Once again, national health insurance is said to be “impending,” a condition reminiscent of the old quip about Brazil: “It is the land of the future, and always will be.” NHI, to use the official acronym, has long been a …
By comparison to the Kennedy-Johnson 1964 tax cut or even the Ford administration’s 1975 acceptance of congressional demands for antirecessionary action, the Carter program, as originally presented to Congress at the start of the new Administration, was disappointingly small. The …
In his Three Essays on Sexuality, Freud summed up the views of two diverse cultures on love, his own and that of the ancient Greeks: The most striking distinction between the erotic life of antiquity and our own no doubt …
Editors: The articles by Philip Green are long, and heavily documented, but Mr. Green seems not to have decided whether he is writing facts or polemics. As there are too many points of controversy to go into all of them, …
In The Case of Comrade Tulayev, Victor Serge’s novel of the Great Purge, one character says as he fears he is about to be arrested: Listen. . . . There are not more than fifty men on earth who understand …
The Revolutionary Ascetic: Evolution of a Political Type, by Bruce Mazlish. New York: Basic Books. 261 pp. Work, Culture, and Society in Industrializing America, by Herbert G. Gutman. New York: Alfred A. Knopf. 343 pp. Recoiling from the lack of …
Although the winds of compulsory sterilization are blowing over many parts of the country, in Bihar State this extreme measure has been advised against for the present. The major reason is that medical facilities in the rural areas of Bihar are …
Some misunderstandings do acquire historical dimensions. In the celebrated interview he granted Edgar Snow, Mao Tsetung allegedly described himself as “a lonely monk walking in the rain under a leaking umbrella.” With its mixture of humorous humility and exoticism, this …
In these days, when we are all becoming more concerned about the way we are using up our natural resources, polluting our environment, and destroying the ecological balance of nature, it still seems to some that there is an insuperable …
After Vietnam and Watergate, years of racial conflict, sad stories of apathy, party disintegration, the breakup of traditional alliances, media domination, the United States has had its most conventional, its most “normal” election since 1960, perhaps since 1944. I confess …
A case might be made that the graffiti in public bathrooms offer as valid a perception of vox populi as the more conventional materials used in public-opinion research. Consider the message scribbled in a rest room on one campus of …
Back in 1971 Anwar Sadat, then considered by the future American Secretary of State to be little more than a caretaker clown, declared the “Year of Decision.” Events intervened and the fateful decision was not implemented until October 1973; it …
George Fernandes, chairman of the Socialist party of India and leader of India’s railroad workers’ federation, faces trial in that country on the charge of “planned sabotage” and acting against the interest of India. Here is the text of a …
Ideologists tend to see the future in terms of the past. The pioneers of the Great French Revolution paraded as Brutuses. The Bolsheviks in turn imitated the Jacobins, hoping to improve on their predecessors’ performance while escaping their fate. Now …
