A triumphant revolution has to use repression because with its triumph the class struggle does not end. . . . We have no mercy for those who take weapons against us; it does not matter if they are weapons of …
Revolution in Cuba: An Essay in Understanding, by Herbert L. Matthews. New York: Scribner’s. 468 pp. Cuba in the 1970s: Pragmatism and Insitutionalization, by Carmelo Mesa-Lago. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press. 179 pp. With Fidel: A Portrait of Castro, …
The Mafia Mystique, by Dwight C. Smith, Jr. New York: Basic Books. 399 pp. When I told a friend that my Sicilian grandfather had died in jail, he asked without hesitation whether he had been killed by the Mafia because …
Affirmative Action: Ethnic Intensity and Public Policy, by Nathan Glazer. New York: Basic Books. 248 pp. Nathan Glazer is troubled by what he thinks is affirmative action, even though he concedes that “eve have not quite reached the degraded condition of …
Editors: In Mr. Connolly’s review of Kevin Phillips’s Mediacracy (Winter 1976), he lists the “areas of greatest McGovern strength” as “New England, the upper Midwest, and the Pacific Northwest.” Perhaps this is merely an example of a reviewer conveying without …
Philip Roth is adding a new dimension to the American literary scene. He has launched his new series, Writers from the Other Europe, with two Czech works of fiction that have won international acclaim in English, German, and French translations …
The second volume of Solzhenitsyn’s Gulag Archipelago has now appeared. Where the first volume consisted in a detailed investigation of everything that preceded the arrival of millions of Soviet people in Stalin’s concentration camps—the system of arrests, the various forms …
The people of West Virginia are victims. They are the victims of powerful and cunning outsiders, of themselves and their own kind, and of social and historical forces with regard to which they have no control or understanding. For a …
My dear Andre, If I have not written to you until today it is not out of laziness or forgetfulness, but because, after our frequent and somewhat inconclusive conversations, I felt I owed it to myself (and to you) to …
In 1969 Arthur Jensen first made the claim that it is “a not unreasonable hypothesis that genetic factors are strongly implicated in the average Negro-white intelligence difference.” That “hypothesis” has since been defended by Jensen and his epigones with all …
Watergate is history. The time has come to seek a theoretical perspective on those tumultuous events, to move away from yesterday’s feverish absorption with “the facts” and confront the significance of Watergate for American politics and society—particularly to consider the …
The central employment problem of our society today is the disparity of employment opportunities among blacks and whites, among skilled and unskilled, among young and experienced. —Otto Eckstein Twenty-nine years after the Employment Act was signed into law, a new …
First, we are still here. “A prophet,” said Mr. Dooley, “is a man who foresees trouble.” But when trouble comes, I would add, it can still look remarkably like yesterday. The land swarms with prophets of doom. “Repent-for-the-Last-Hour-Is-atHand” men lie …
Index, the admirable English quarterly devoted to freedom of expression throughout the world, prints in a recent issue a group of jokes from totalitarian (or, as in the case of Greece, recently dictatorial) countries, and prefaces the selection with a …
Black Fiction, by Roger Rosenblatt. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. 211 pp. Roger Rosenblatt begins this book by telling us what it is not—and one is relieved to discover that it is not another study promoting (or decrying) cultural nationalism or …
