The editor of this volume, a Maoist of the California school, announces that the people of China, Vietnam, Korea, and Albania “consider Stalin one of the great heroes of modern history.” This might, he concedes, be the result of brain-washing, …
I n his latest book, Richard Barnet, codirector of the Institute for Policy Studies, continues his examination of U.S. foreign policy, specifically “the roots of a generation of war” and the forces in U.S. society that have pushed this country …
George Lichtheim fitted ill the technological age whose coming he augured. He was, genuinely, a writer: one of the rare breed whose craft is saying forth, transforming unwieldy reality into the freedom of the word. His occasional essays are the …
The rise, fall, and further fall of Students for a Democratic Society during the sixties is more than another melancholy footnote to the failed radical movements in America. While it lasted, as the centerpiece of the New Left in the …
About the “ultimate” meaning of Watergate we cannot be certain. Should we regard it as a transient stain on the Republic which time will blur, as it has blurred so many others? Or does it constitute a new kind of …
Ever since 1968, Cesar Chavez’s United Farm Workers have had two principal opponents: the growers who control California’s $5 billionper-year agricultural industry and the Nixon administration, which, through Department of Defense purchases of nonunion grapes and lettuce and National Labor …
Editor: David Spitz has clearly researched B. F. Skinner, if making reference to some of his writings is a reflection of that, but it is equally clear that he has simply missed Skinner’s point all along the way. Of those …
Celebrated as the cradle of civilization, the source of civility, change, and progress, the city has also been damned as the locus of evil, and for many Sodom and Gomorrah are still the archetypal urban communities. These themes run together …
Feinberg: I believe it would simplify the problem to state that the KGB orders experts to designate such and such a political prisoner a mental case. Nadjarov: Of course. Besides, it is better not to touch on politics. Each of us …
A completely egalitarian society strikes me as so utopian as to be beyond policy-oriented discussion. If all incomes were equal, it is doubtful that the most unpleasant and taxing jobs would be filled, and if all power were equalized, it …
In The Sleeping-Car Murders, Costa-Gavras’s exciting if rather conventional first movie, the hero was a Parisian detective desperately trying to solve a “perfect” murder. With the hindsight provided by three films, we can see that for Costa-Gavras the detective’s desire …
I am in the course of this lecture going to refer to a few of the socialists I most admire—Morris, Tawney, Titmuss, Rita Hinden herself. I will start with William Morris. “On this then I take my stand as a …
Last Tango in Paris is an expressionist film in the line of Fritz Lang, Jean-Luc Godard, and Paddy Chayefsky. To admit this at the outset is to minimize any risk of understanding the phenomenon too quickly. Expressionism, after all, seeks …
At the very center of conservative thought lies this idea: that the present division of wealth and power corresponds to some deeper reality of human life. Conservatives don’t want to say merely that the present division is what it ought …
The word “censorship” immediately provokes a hostile reaction since traditionally it indicates the intention of authorities, whether clerical or secular, to curtail freedom. The very essence of Western technological civilization is incompatible with censorship, for the latter presupposes an authority …
