These two letters by the Russian novelist Alexander Solzhenitsyn reveal vividly the condition of the writer in his struggle against the Communist bureaucracy of Russia. The first letter was written to a group of students who had visited him; the …
At least for the moment, Women’s Liberation is “in.” Its advocates get wide publicity in the mass media, and there is talk, mostly not very serious, about what “those women” want. On campuses, as in professional organizations, there has been …
When the negotiations between the auto industry and the United Auto Workers began, the company spokesmen presented themselves as industrial statesmen. It was in the interests of the American economy, they said, to have a noninflationary settlement and they, as …
One of the less happy aspects of the Kennedy era was the way it blended politics and fashion, giving rise to a concern with style and mood that had been lacking in earlier American liberalism. As Hollywood and the Jet …
Einstein & the Bomb Editor: In his letter published in the May-June 1970 issue of your magazine, Professor Dennis H. Wrong asserts that Einstein “played a leading role in encouraging his fellow scientists to work for the Manhattan Project.” Professor …
Two recent films illustrate the problem of art and politics under sharply differing social circumstances. The Joke is a Czech film made in 1968 by Jaromil Jires who, in contrast to some of his colleagues, so far has elected to …
Leonard Levin Writes As Paul Kurtz perceived [in “Misuses of Civil Disobedience,” DISSENT, January– February 1970], he has written about a principle—”civil disobedience”—which is intelligible only in a wider context, the context of civil society and especially democratic society. He …
This is Mr. Rustin’s adaptation of a commencement address he gave at the Tuskegee Institute on May 31, 1970. He is the executive director of the A. Philip Randolph Institute. Your generation has lived through a period of unprecedented upheaval. …
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, …
One of the great novels of 20th-century Europe, Roger Martin du Gard’s The Thibaults, has recently been reprinted in English translation by Bantam Books, with an introduction by Albert Camus. Little known in the U.S., The Thibaults consists of a …
During the first two weeks of August, along with three friends, professors like myself, I traveled in Israel, talking with people in the government, the new opposition, the army, and the universities. We were there when the cease-fire went into …
With the publication of The Cowards, one of the major literary figures of our times is making a belated appearance in English. Josef Škvorecký has given East European readers a perspective of sanity in an insane world and a human perspective …
Everyone knows that the rise of TV has had a profound impact upon politics. That everyone does know this may very well be the most important part of the impact. Elaborate and expensive attempts to define the exact nature of …
On the centenary of the birth of Lenin (April 22, 1970), the distinguished Italian writer Ignazio Silone granted an interview to the Corriere della Sera of Milan in which he reminisced about his relationship with the leader of the October …
Mandarins and Sociologists Editor: In his thoughtful review of my Decline of the German Mandarins, [DISSENT, January—February 1970] Arthur Mitzman argues that I do not sufficiently connect the writings of the great German sociologists with the “middle- and working-class opposition …
