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 …
The Teamster actions are disgraceful. They are clearly union-busting. They are engaged in a concerted campaign to wipe out the United Farm Workers. —George Meany Ever since 1968, Cesar Chavez’s United Farm Workers have had two principal opponents: the growers …
The Essential Stalin: Major Theoretical Writings, 1905-1952, edited by Bruce Franklin. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Anchor Books. 511 pp. The editor of this volume, a Maoist of the California school, announces that the people of China, Vietnam, Korea, and Albania …
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 …
Black Education: Myths and Tragedies, by Thomas Sowell. New York: David McKay. 338 pp. This book is a highly personal critique of black education in the United States during recent years. Written by an articulate and competent black economist, it …
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 …
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, …
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 world. With a history, too, of saying, writing, and singing the …
This book is a highly personal critique of black education in the United States during recent years. Written by an articulate and competent black economist, it draws heavily on his limited experiences as a student in a few black schools …
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 …
