MH: Let me raise a question, Günter—partly in terms of your critique of some aspects of the West German Ostpolitik—about the question of detente and of freedom in the Soviet Union. The three of us obviously are in favor of …
When the devil is seen in conversation with the pope, one may wonder who is converting whom. And when both the governments of the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. profess an ardent desire for detente, one may feel entitled to a …
As a former Connecticut resident who voted against Lowell Weicker, I was particularly fascinated by his conduct during the first phase of the Watergate hearings, and by the favorable impression he made among liberal commentators. No one seems to remember …
To write about Nicola Chiaromonte is, for me, to say farewell to an old friend; and I cannot resist the temptation to try and make him come alive again, even if only for a moment, for those who may read …
The conference of exiled Czechoslovak democratic socialists at the Swiss Trade Union Center in Rotschuo this past September is yet another straw in the wind, serving notice that an easing of tensions between Washington and Moscow does not resolve the …
The three political fathers of the idea of a United Europe—Robert Schuman, Konrad Adenauer, and Alcide de Gasperi—had each experienced excesses of nationalism that made them sense the urgency of devising a political solution for nationalistic confrontations. Schuman was a …
The failures of the welfare state in the sixties have served as stimulus for, and rationale of, the rise of neoconservative thought in the seventies. The neoconservative ideologues base themselves on what they regard as the data of the sixties, …
At the corner of 15th Street and Union Square West, on June 1, James Morrissey and Ralph Ibrahim, two seamen, watched outside the Amalgamated Bank while bags of ballots were loaded from the vault onto a truck for delivery to …
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 …
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 …
Writings and Drawings, by Bob Dylan. New York: Knopf. 315 pp. A man, no longer young, with a history of having wanted to be famous; then, having achieved that in a rush, of hiding out from an adoring and rapacious …
PROSPERO: A devil, a born devil on whose unfortunate nature Nurture can never stick; on whom my pains Humanely taken, all, all lost, quite lost; And as with age his body uglier grows, So his mind cankers . . . …
Collected Essays, by George Lichtheim. New York: Viking Press. 492 pp. 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 …
Roots of War, by Richard J. Barnet. New York: Atheneum. 350 pp. In 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” …
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 …
