The Oppenheimer Case: Security on Trial, by Philip M. Stern, with the collaboration of Harold P. Green. New York: Harper & Row. 591 pp. $10. For his colleagues and most others who came into contact with him, J. Robert Oppenheimer …
Herbert Marcuse: An Exposition and a Polemic, by Alasdair Maclntyre. New York: Viking Press. 114 pp. $1.65. Herbert Marcuse compels attention because he is, or is said to be, one of the more influential social philosophers of our time. Yet …
It’s as if the American people (assuming for the moment so large an abstraction) had said: We trust neither party completely, we are nervous and dismayed about the state of the country, we are not inclined, certainly not yet, to …
In the October 1970 presidential election, there were some 3,540,000 registered voters. About 600,000 abstained. The candidates of the left-wing Popular Union coalition won 1,075,616 votes (36.3 percent); The “national” (rightist) candidate, Jorge Alessandri, 1,036,278 (34.98 percent); and 824,849 voted …
When I came to see Mike Nichols’s film version of Joseph Heller’s Catch-22, the lines on both sides of the Sutton Theater were already long. There are, apparently, a large number of New Yorkers willing to spend $3.50 for a …
Many young black activists, hearing from both the Left and the Right that unions are their main enemy, and believing what they hear, have joined the chorus of labor’s critics. Some choose to spin their wheels in generally vain efforts …
Has Richard Nixon been converted by some radicals? Has the Administration been infiltrated by Communists? It sounds unbelievable, but here the President proposes to Congress a radically new foreign aid program, abolishing all bilateral transactions and with it the obnoxious …
Editor: DISSENT has recently carried three contributions dealing with Israel. Two, by Irving Howe and Michael Walzer, give critical support to the Israeli government; a third, by the Jerusalem professor J. L. Talmon, is a moving appeal to reason and …
Although black militancy has been one of the veins of American radicalism at least since the abolitionists, it was only during the early sixties that most people started paying much attention to it or even calling it by that name. …
The death of Richard Hofstadter has been felt as a tragic loss, a harsh personal blow, not only by those who had been close to him but by colleagues, students, readers throughout the country. He was a brilliant historian. He …
The prevailing pattern of family life among Negro people is the conjugal unit or the nuclear household consisting of husband, wife, and children. Both spouses are present in nearly 70 percent of all Negro families. Most Negro households are supported …
Richard Nixon, Edmund Muskie, George Wallace, Harold Wilson, the New Left, the Old Left, Michel Rocard, Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber, Rudi Dutschke—pretty much everybody dreams about the working class these days, though they dream different dreams. This discord in some ways parallels …
On the way to an international convention at Varna, Bulgaria, my wife and I recently stopped in a small town in Bulgaria. The only decent restaurant being crowded, the waiter directed us to a large table where seven or eight …
Winston Churchill once said that the public attitude toward criminals constitutes “a sure test of the level of civilization.” 1 If so, then these essentials of the liberal doctrine as set forth by Leon Radzinowicz should not be forgotten: Since …
In the last few months there has been a vigorous debate among women activists concerning the Equal Rights Amendment to the Constitution, which would void all state and local laws with special provisions on women. The Amendment passed the House, …
