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 …
I n his Paths in Utopia, Martin Buber distinguished between two modes of what he called eschatological thinking: the prophetic and the apocalyptic. In the prophetic mode, the central theme is the preparation of humanity for the hour of redemption; …
Nothing reflects better the situation in India and the mood of its government than the speech Prime Minister Indira Gandhi delivered last March in Patiala. Mrs. Gandhi noted that there had been a sharp decline in India’s image abroad. A …
For most radicals, the problem of poverty and the problem of inequality have been connected. Whether they had a theory of the exploitation of the working class or a gut sense that price-gougers and sweat-shop operators stole the bread of …
There is no “iron law of organization.” No “iron law” of logic forces a labor party to choose either sectarian ineffectiveness or the shallow opportunism and the bureaucratic machine rule of a mass party. Observers of the German Social Democrats …
It might not speed us on our road to socialism, but it might nudge us a bit in that direction if the organizations we look to for leadership and enlightenment had names that were compelling or at least rememberable. Take …
When Watergate was still a “caper,” I saw it as a faded replay of Mission Impossible. The burglars then seemed to have filched an inferior scenario from a famous TV series. But as one expose after another tumbled off the …
The New Conservatives Editor: Although you were kind enough to invite me to do so, I have no wish to comment in detail on Rose Coser’s review of my book, The New Chastity; some sorts of criticism are discussable, but …
Over the past few years the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare (HEW) and the acadamic establishment have been engaged in a contest over equal employment opportunities for university women. In October 1967, Executive Order 11246, as amended by 11375, …
The emergence of two distinct and conflicting tendencies within the trade unions—roughly, a Republican and a Democratic wing—has become more visible in 1973, although signs of this could already be seen during the 1972 presidential campaign. Dramatic evidence of this …
American intellectual conservatism, as Joseph Epstein observed in this journal’s last issue, has become a tendency to be interpreted as well as resisted by radicals. Our contemporary conservatives, like their English predecessors, are skeptical about human behavior and disposed to …
Tawney’s socialism wears well because it is humanistic, which in the first place means it eschews historicism. Though Tawney was a historian and believed a sense of history essential to socialist politics, he saw socialism as a matter not of …
These were our rulers, these the men who ran America—the Haldemans and Erlichmans, the Mitchells and Deans and Stanses. Breaking and entering, stealing, forging historical documents and letters in the name of political opponents, rifling psychiatric files, provoking turmoil and …
Everyone in Paris knows that the French Communist party (CP) is no longer a revolutionary party bent on seizing power by force or subversion—perhaps simply because this would be impossible. In signing the Common Program for an electoral bloc with …
This past winter, while the rest of the country was marking off the troubled months with an inauguration, POW returns, and sky-rocketing food prices, adult New York, or a part of it, was occupying its days with a fornicating Marlon …
