Insofar as anyone can, I’ll try to answer this question. But first, some analytical remarks about the McGovern movement and the social context in which it arises. For whatever happens in November, it seems clear that a new political force …
By the California primary last June, the major Democratic contenders had settled uncomfortably into what has become the new litany on school integration and busing. McGovern and Humphrey both declared against “massive” busing but for “reasonable” transportation. They supported busing …
Communists & the Miners Editor: Theodore Draper, whose self-esteem has risen with the passing years as he continues to receive the adulation of those whose criterion for scholarship is anti-Communism with footnotes, ridicules my assertion that the Trade Union Unity …
The university as a preserve of the wealthy, the relatively privileged, and a scattering of symbolic scholarship cases is a thing of the past. Mass higher education, so long merely a dream (a nightmare for some), becomes a sounder theoretical …
Ideologically, this is a time of startling events and strange alliances. Increasingly prominent on the polemical scene are the new social-science conservatives, often former liberals or radicals. They are featured in the Public Interest, Commentary, and the New York Times …
Consider the question of whether or not we can correctly say that a human fetus is a human being. I am inclined to believe that a negative answer is correct. Others disagree. They maintain that the fetus is a human …
The South is up for grabs in the 1970s. With 22 senators, 106 representatives, and almost one-fourth of the votes in the electoral college, the region’s strategic significance in national politics has stirred the imagination of both right-wing Republicans and …
Post-Scarcity Anarchism, by Murray Bookchin. Berkeley: Ramparts Press. 288 pp., $2.95. Anarchists are frequently on the defensive. The most shrill revolutionary faction, they seem always to occupy the losing side of history. Hounded by the state they reject, repelled by the …
Editor: Having recently read Andrew M. Greeley’s “‘A Most Distressful Nation”‘ [DISSENT, October 1971], and being a Massachusetts Irishman by birth and also being, among other things, a student and scholar of Irish literature and Irish history, I’d like to …
THE CZECHOSLOVAK POLITICAL TRIALS, 1950-1954, edited by Jiri Pelikan. Stanford: Stanford University Press. 360 pp. $10.95. During that remarkable spring of 1968 when most Czechoslovak Communists were striving toward a “socialism with a human face,” the Party leadership set up …
There are people in the world so crazy as not to realize that this is normal human existence of the kind everybody should aim at. — Nadezhda Mandelstam From the beginning, Zionists aimed at a kind of normality, and political …
Orlando Patterson, “On the Fate of Blacks in the Americas,” Public Interest, Spring 1972. Simple slogans of black separatism and black power have faded with incredible speed since the riot-torn 1960s. Black activism is now more political and sophisticated than …
Now that Senator McGovern has won the California and New Jersey primaries, only some unpredictable surprise or some very predictable skullduggery can keep him from getting the Democratic nomination. By the standards of American politics as it exists in reality …
Cuba: The Pursuit of Freedom, by Hugh Thomas. New York: Harper & Row. 1696 pp. Guerrillas in Power: The Course of the Cuban Revolution, by K. S. Karol. Translated from the French by Arnold Pomerans. New York: Hill & Wang. …
The stirring slogan that ends The Critique of the Gotha Program is generally taken as a capsule summary of the socialist approach to distributing the burdens and benefits of life. It can be seen as the statement of a noble …
