A little unexpectedly but not the less welcome, some sensible words on terrorism come in the May 1974 issue of Ramparts, the New Left monthly. A piece signed by “the Editors” details the ugly story of how some 20 people, …
It ought not to be difficult to agree that restrictions on freedom are not quite so dangerous when we call them by their proper name instead of pretending that they are a more perfect form of freedom. Yet this awareness …
Ho Chi Minh: A Biographical Introduction, by Charles Fenn. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons. 144 pp. Concerning the story of Ho Chi Minh’s life, the publishers of this new biography claim that “until now there has been very little biographical …
Some rather hard-headed observers, not ordinarily given to the strategy of appeasement as a means of achieving peace, have been heard to argue recently that increasing contacts with the Soviet Union, especially expanded trade, will encourage the Soviets to assume …
With the depression that followed World War I, Detroit became a beehive of radical activity. Splits occurred in the Socialist party, with some of the members flocking into the Communist party and others forming new groups, like the Proletarian University …
Selections from the Prison Notebooks of Antonio Gramsci, edited and translated by Quintin Hoare and Geoffrey Nowell Smith. New York: International Publishers. 482 pp. When Antonio Gramsci’s Letters from Prison were first published, ten years after his early death, Benedetto …
We should have known that when definitive word came to be spoken about Richard Nixon, it would be from the pen of Art Buchwald. In one of his recent skits Buchwald shows “a former White House aide” called “Deep Toes,” …
On Chile Editor: Stanley Plastrik’s generally excellent article on the Chilean tragedy, in your Winter 1974 issue, characterized Unidad Popular’s vote of 43 percent in the 1973 legislative elections as its peak. Actually, a year after the 1970 election of …
While East-West tension is subsiding throughout Europe (to a considerable extent the result of Chinese pressure on the U.S.S.R.) and the likelihood of military conflict is decreasing steadily, somber storm clouds are gathering more swiftly with each passing day over …
Girls, you must take this matter to heart seriously now, for you have established a union, and for the first time in woman’s history in the United States, you are placed, and by your own efforts, on a level with …
At the press conference in Tehran—while solemnly announcing the raise of posted oil prices to $11.6 a barrel and the government take (correctly called royalty because it is the king who receives it) to $7—Shah Mohammed of Iran said: We …
The fresh tractor trail in the mud looked like the footsteps of some prehistoric beast; it seemed to have little relation to the Lend-Lease delivery of American technical equipment. Even we concentration camp inmates had heard about these overseas gifts, …
The current interest in “corporate responsibility” arises from a mounting concern over tensions in our society and from a recognition of the decisive role corporations play in our lives. In the next decade, there will undoubtedly be considerable movement by …
If Al Shanker had emerged somewhere in New Mexico in 1950 the world would have been none the wiser. But Al Shanker in New York City in the turbulent 1960s was an entirely different thing. It was a classic example …
From the Diary of a Snail, by Gunter Grass. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich. 310 pp. In some sense, all writers and artists are politically engaged; they have to protect the integrity of their work from the heavy hand of …
