My guess is that a discussion of the relation between moral values and psychoanalysis would have made Sigmund Freud extremely uneasy. Freud never doubted that his ideas were revolutionary and therefore bound to have effects far beyond the understanding and …
Ben Seligman was an old-fashioned socialist intellectual. The world is full of “old-fashioned intellectuals” for whom the concept of socialist fraternity has long since lost whatever value it might once have had. And it reverberates to the cries of “socialist …
Whatever is happening on campus, it is not a revolution in any recognizable sense. A revolution must have an independent socioeconomic base, and the “youth revolution” conspicuously lacks that. Its proponents do not constitute a class, definable in terms of …
A strange quiet has fallen on the American campus. At least as of mid-December: it may all be different by the time this is read. Whether it is a brooding quiet in preparation for the kind of explosion we had …
The appearance of Sexual Politics constitutes an event in publishing rather than in intellectual history. Much of its material and general drift is not only familiar, but even tired; it offers no new research, argument, or proposals, nor is it an …
Those of us engaged in what is loosely called “the New Politics” have been told for some time that we cannot succeed without the labor movement. And we believe it: there was a conspicuous effort in 1970 by peace candidates, …
Forty years ago Boris Pilnyak was recognized throughout Europe as “one of the giants of the modern novel,” in the words of the dust jacket on his now forgotten The Volga Falls to the Caspian Sea. At this point in …
The memoirs of Albert Speer have received favorable, even enthusiastic notices in the English and American press, and the first question to ask is why, after 25 years, anyone still cares to read about the in-fighting among Hitler’s top lieutenants, …
Amid the cacophony of both self-congratulation and enraged assault, which marks discussion of student politics, Steven Kelman’s book is notable for reason, coherence, and a degree of detachment. It deals specifically with the Harvard disorders of April 1969, much of …
Theodore Draper, who has concentrated his considerable talents on many different subjects —from Vietnam and the Middle East to Cuba, the Dominican Republic, and the American Communist party—has now turned his attention to the subject of black nationalism. The result …
An age defines itself by the words it brings to prominence. Idealism, as in youthful idealism, would be such a word; and by setting it against the various kinds of action it describes one might hope to arrive at a …
The fantastic victory that came so unexpectedly in June 1967 propelled Israel into a euphoric mood. All at once Zionism became immensely meaningful again. But meaningful in what sense? By Israel having obtained the longed for goal of peace on …
A fierce struggle is being played out in the Dominican Republic, a struggle for power. It may be argued that this is a well-known game in Latin America, as indeed it is. But here the difference is that at least …
The night we learned last June that the Labour party had been defeated, I tried to solve the puzzle of this unexpected slap in the face. It was, I thought, for two basic reasons. In today’s consumer society, what the …
Few writers have had so notable an opportunity directly to observe major historical events as has Vladimir Dedijer, Director of Information in the Tito government at the time the Yugoslavs defied Stalin. Dedijer was a close witness of the first …
