Southern state governments in the late 1950s and early 1960s underwent a breakdown of democracy as serious and dangerous as Watergate. The same terrible principle that motivated Watergate controlled most of the region’s state houses. In reaction to the 1954 …
Dear Colleague: I am glad you agree with me that discrimination against women in employment generally, and in the academy in particular, has to end; and that the socialization process, by which women are directed away from the world of …
After reading the Rockefeller Commission report, Senator Frank Church declared, “This is just the tip of an iceberg.” A little later it looked like the tip of a glacier. From December 22, 1974, when Seymour Hersh’s first dispatch on “Massive …
On Equality Editors: It is perhaps symptomatic of a tragic flaw in the otherwise excellent thinking in Steven Lukes’ article on “Socialism and Equality” that he misrepresents the position of C. A. R. Crosland on the question. Mr. Lukes appears …
A few years ago, extremists on the campus were trying to prevent students from listening to anyone who would defend U.S. policy in Southeast Asia. More recently the chief targets of such harassment have been speakers who claimed a genetic …
An important discussion has begun among European Socialists. Should they enter the kinds of electoral alliances with Communists that the French and Italian Socialist parties have entered but other Socialists deplore? Have the Communists changed sufficiently so as to be …
Freedom prevents not the proletarian from eating but the tyrant from sleeping. —Edgar Morin What is the use of deluding ourselves or trying to delude others? The recent destruction of democracy in India is a severe political blow to people …
For a brief, involuntary moment, while traveling to Portugal’s Estoril beach, we joined the revolution—or was it the “counterrevolution”? It wasn’t easy to tell. Rates on the suburban railroads had been raised by 30 percent to meet the railway workers’ …
There will be a marked increase in national economic planning and public ownership in the United States during the next five or so years. Such a prediction, one might suppose, should immediately call forth leftist hurrahs. But if we analyze …
One man alone has taken it upon himself to reverse India’s decline toward some form of authoritarian rule by Indira Gandhi, head of government, in the name of the Congress, India’s ruling party. Known familiarly as J.P. to tens of …
It is finally over. The outcome had not really been in doubt for some years, and only a massive intervention by the U.S., if even that, could have changed it. Elementary humaneness therefore yields a kind of relief. Whatever sufferings …
Failure of a Dream?: Essays in the History of American Socialism, edited by John M. Laslett and Seymour Martin Lipset. Garden City, New York: Anchor Press, Doubleday. 754 pp. As I read this collection of articles, both new and familiar, …
If a mechanical materialism, a vulgar Marxism, were really operating one might say that France, after 20 years of visible modernization, would by now have produced a very different Communist party. It is overwhelming to arrive for the first time …
In our Spring 1975 issue we carried Devra Lee Davis’s review of Steven Goldberg’s recent book, The Inevitability of Patriarchy. Below we print a comment Steven Goldberg has sent us on that review and Devra Lee Davis’s response. —Eds. Steven …
When Socialists win power, it is in one country at a time. And so we point to all the international and other complications involved to explain why socialists in power—in Britain, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Australia or Israel—have not yet created …
