On Jimmy Carter Editors: It seems to me that Mario Soares, speaking from far-off Portugal, showed more understanding about Jimmy Carter and the 1976 elections than those Dissent editors who were wringing their hands and expressing various degrees of distress …
First, let me free myself of certain political constraints in this brief speculation about the Jimmy Carter phenomenon. That done, I think the analysis can be made much more candidly. I intend to vote for Carter and to work as …
In Britain today, Labour ministers carry on the “long revolution” for social justice in the face of a downward economic spiral. The British Labour party unites evangelical, workingclass sentiment (“The Red Flag Holds the People’s Blood,” delegates sing at every …
In his presidential campaign in 1960, when the average number of unemployed workers was 3.9 million, John F. Kennedy made unemployment one of the major issues and promised to “get this country moving again.” After Kennedy won the election, there …
The Ingmar Bergman affair in Sweden involves both facts and implications. As for the fact: was Bergman guilty of tax evasion? why was Bergman hauled away while directing a rehearsal of Strindberg’s Dance of Death at the Royal Dramatic Theater …
This article is the last of three dealing with the subject of Genetics, IQ, and Equality. The first, entitled “Race and IQ: Fallacy of Heritability,” appeared in our spring issue; the second, “The Pseudoscience of Arthur Jensen,” in the summer …
The Worm of Consciousness and Other Essays, by Nicola Chiaromonte. Edited by Miriam Chiaromonte. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich. 270 pp. Nicola Chiaromonte was an essayist in the original sense of that curious and difficult word. One feels that he …
Since its formulation almost 20 years ago by Oscar Lewis, the concept of “the culture of poverty” has been at the vortex of controversy. For some writers, it provides a key to the mystery of poverty. For others, it is …
Before Tom Hayden’s unsuccessful campaign for the Democratic senatorial nomination in California is quite forgotten, a comment is in order. Running against an ineffectual opponent, Hayden received 1.2 million votes, an impressive showing. Many of the things he said during …
Doctor Azudi, the professional Azudi is just like Genghis Khan when he walks he walks on a pile of fresh corpses the Khan did not clean his teeth either the Khan also belched the Khan did …
This report was completed in the middle of June and is based on a visit to Spain in May and early June. Early in July, the King dismissed the previous Prime Minister, and the new Prime Minister’s cabinet did not …
The Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism, by Daniel Bell. New York: Basic Books. 282 pp. The first volume of Daniel Bell’s sociological diagnosis of our time—The Coming of Post-Industrial Society—was described as “a venture in social forecasting”: it concentrated on tendencies …
European Communist parties, for threescore years Stalin’s vanguard, seem to be discovering democracy. Few Americans have noticed and fewer still are willing to trust the change. With reason—and yet, if genuine, the change could mark the end of an era, …
At the end of 1974, three young revolutionaries posted on the walls of a busy street of Kwangchow a long and powerful political manifesto. Before it could be suppressed by the authorities, it was immediately reproduced and disseminated by way …
