Fall 2025

The case of Heberto Padilla is of great importance, first as a reflection of the increasing Stalinization of the Castro regime, and second as a test of the responses that are elicited among what, I suppose, must be called the …

One of Jules Feiffer’s cartoons captures the mood of political hopelessness that pervades the American Left. A long-haired militant asks a shortcropped liberal whether he voted in the last election. “Yes.” “Did your man win?” “Yes.” “How will you feel about …

Very soon after the mass production of literature-writing machines began and started working with high efficiency, it was noticed that with every passing day critics were disappearing. The phenomenon had an immediate and easily perceptible cause: the trade of the literary …

Politics in Modern Greece, by Keith Legg. Stanford: Stanford University Press. 367 pp. Greek politics is terra incognita to most non-Greeks, including all too many of those responsible for American policy toward Greece. The Greeks themselves usually know a little more …

Every age has its public drama, a scene jarred loose of context which illuminates that longer, impassive flow of events that leaves most people happily unconcerned. From the first it should have been apparent that the My Lai massacre would become …

Those of us who for years have been concerned, as students of population, with the increasing number of people on the earth feel some satisfaction, though not always of an unmixed kind, over the recent rise of interest in the problem. …

There can be no possible doubt that the United States has violated in Indochina the laws of war laid down by the Hague and Geneva Conventions, the principles on which the Nuremberg and Tokyo war crimes trials were based, and several …

The Gift Relationship: From Human Blood to Social Policy, by Richard M. Titmuss. New York: Pantheon Books. 339 pp. From each according to his needs, to each according to his abilities! As Richard Titmuss makes clear, in this superb book, …

Falling into decades—it is a modest version of the archaic practice in European elementary schools of dividing great epochs into convenient categories: the Middle Ages came to an end and then began the Renaissance. In reality, history moves in uneven …

Political Sociology of Racism For the first half-century after slavery was abolished in the United States, the Negro lived mainly in the rural South and, save for a brief 10-15 years of Reconstruction, he had no rights of political participation. During …

Behind the Revolt in East Pakistan Apart from basic differences in language, tradition, culture, and even the manner in which their common Islamic religion is practiced, the Urdu-speaking West Pakistanis and the Bengali-speaking East ex-Pakistanis have stood in an unhealthy …