Spring 2025

When Trotsky, in the first weeks of his regime, threatened opponents with an ingenious gadget that shortens a person “only by the length of a head,” one may have dismissed the remark as a bad joke from a temperamental orator …

If a clear resolution seems lacking for such vexing problems as unemployment and high prices, recrimination is not. Labor blames business, business blames labor, and both blame the federal government. Not to be outdone, the federal government blames local government—at …

The Inevitability of Patriarchy, by Stephen Goldberg. New York: Morrow. 318 pp. This is a book about men as leaders, authority figures, and high-status persons in society. Reflecting the current vogue for the human zoo—which celebrates human capacities from love …

This April Georg Lukács would be 90 years old. When he died, four years ago, he was eulogized for a number of conflicting reasons: • To some, he was the guardian of orthodox Marxism and the only disciple who had …

Mr. President, the roots of the Palestinian question reach back into the closing years of the 19th century, to that period we call the era of colonialism. . . . This is precisely the period during which Zionism was born; …

“I know,” wrote Mahatma Gandhi way back in 1930 when Indian independence was still a dream, “that if I survive the struggle for freedom, I might have to do nonviolent battles with my own countrymen—battles that may be as stubborn as …

For most egalitarians, equality is a moral concept. What moves them is a conviction that gross disparities of wealth, income, status, power, and respect between men do violence to their common humanity and create relationships between them that are profoundly …

Inflation has presented an intractable problem for post-Keynesian aggregate demand management. It has not responded to direct intervention through wage-price controls. A failure of policy has been reinforced by a failure of explanation. Neither high employment and “low” unemployment rates …

In what sense is Georges Sorel’s writing part of the history of Marxism? Sorel did not participate in any political movement that laid claim to Marx’s inheritance. He involved himself, to be sure, in all the great theoretical polemics of …

Virtue, virtus, is that strength of character from which arise the qualities indispensable for standing up to the world–courage, resolution, perseverance, control of the constantly changing emotions and impulses. If I regarded nature sentimentally, I would treat virtue with less …

Dear Mr. Buckley: I am writing to you today because I was delighted to hear that we share an interest in classical music. Unfortunately, that information came to me in a piece .of bad news: that you are closing down …

On HHH Editor: I think that Marvin Rosenberg–in his letter in the Spring 1974 issue–was justified in protesting that Senators Jackson and Humphrey should not be lumped together as supporters of the Viet- namese War. (Admittedly this was not a …

Is the great and final crash of capitalism at last at hand? Well, as Lyndon Johnson’s legendary job aspirant answered the school board member who inquired about his views on cosmology, I can teach it round or flat. Let’s try …

The current inflation-recession is a crisis of the capitalist system. At first glance, this proposition may seem absurd. It is all but universally agreed, Left, Right, and Center, that two of the most important causes of our present dismal plight …

The Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956: An Experiment in Literary Investigation, by Alexander Solzhenitsyn. Volume I (parts I-II). Translated from the Russian by Thomas P. Whitney. New York: Harper & Row. 660 pp. In his review of The Gulag Archipelago–by far the most …