Gaylin: The Institute has convened this conference to introduce the ethical and value issues into the technical discussions of psychosurgery and electrical brain stimulation. We would like to find out from those of you involved in these fields four kinds …
I first became aware of George Lichtheim’s powerful and distinctive gifts in 1953 and 1954 when he wrote under the name of “G. L. Arnold,” although I had read him under his real name in Commentary on Middle Eastern and …
I n reacting to the criminal assaults on the democratic process and the Democratic party, it is essential that we contemplate—and act on—the polite, everyday and perfectly legal subversion of democracy which takes place when corporate economic power influences government …
You make a pass: The initiator exposes himself to rejection and to the judgment that he is undesirable, which judgment anyone who keeps his distance is allowed to avoid; the recipient exposes herself to providing personal evidence of another’s desirability …
Socialists have always known the values they want to serve; they have had more difficulty working out an economic system that would have to serve them. Since the early days of the Labour movement, socialists have talked of producing for …
Los Angeles, 1967 I pronounce it like FDR’s middle name, and the man at the Greyhound ticket window stares at me. “The bus don’t stop at no place like that!” “You sure?” He nods, and then I spell it out, …
I think I should begin by expressing a certain caution with respect to the premise of my paper, a caution indicated by the quotation marks I have placed around the critical word postindustrial in my title. The premise is that …
Harvey Swados is a man with a white beard, full-figured, handsome as the very devil, a writer with novels, stories, essays behind him. Beaming with a child’s delight, he shows us his new house in Chesterfield, a wonderful old house, …
That movies can accomplish certain narrative chores more smoothly than novels is a truism, but when we begin looking at specific moments from specific films, the apparently slight advantage in facility takes on the character of a difference in kind. …
An attempt by its government—a coalition of left-nationalists and Trotskyists (LSSP)—to muzzle the press has plunged the six-monthold Republic of Sri Lanka (formerly Ceylon) into the first crisis under its strange new Constitution. This Constitution established the Supreme Court, which …
The 1960s were a schizophrenic decade. During the first five years there were difficult struggles, but there was also a mood of hope, of possibility. The bloody exception was, of course, the assassination of John F. Kennedy. But even that …
Poetica Say the truth. Say, at the very least, your truth. And later let anything happen: let them tear your cherished page, let them stone your door down, let the people gather before your body as if you were a …
Listen to Richard Nixon describe his domestic policies: “They represent a pragmatic rededication to social compassion and national excellence. . . .” “Pragmatic” is the crucial word. We shall have compassion, if it is practical. In the budget for fiscal …
On October 26, 1972, Henry Kissinger informed the American people that after four years of negotiations and several months of secret talks, peace finally was “at hand.” “We believe that an agreement is in sight, which is just to all …
“The Intellectual as Critic and Rebel,” by Seymour Martin Lipset and Richard B. Dobson. Daedalus, Summer 1972. In a Daedalus forum on “Intellectuals and Change,” Seymour Martin Lipset and Richard B. Dobson argue that the “historical and traditional” stance of …
