On a pleasant Sunday last fall, 150 black groups marched up Seventh Avenue from 111th Street in New York City’s first Afro-American Day parade. Miss Black America and Adam Clayton Powell were on hand, as were a marching band from …
Editor: In Professor Robert J. Christen’s Comment on the NYCLU and the Ocean-Hill Brownsville dispute which so sadly shook that organization [DISSENT September–October 1969], he quotes me as calling for the ACLU “to go beyond the traditional civil liberties concerns …
In November 1968 the United Federation of Teachers was in the final stage of the longest and most acrimonious strike in its history, one the leadership saw as a “struggle for survival,” but which a wide variety of commentators, vocal …
Volume XV: 1-96, January–February 1968; 97-192, March–April 1968; 193-288, May–June 1968; 289-368, July–August 1968; 369-464, September–October 1968; 465-560, November–December 1968. Volume XVI: 1-96, January–February 1969; 97-192, March–April 1969; 193-288, May–June 1969; 289-368, July–August 1969; 369-464, September–October 1969; 465-560, November–December 1969.
The South has continued to change. The Klan and Citizens’ Councils were on the wane, were less relevant as the society seemed increasingly in a state of flux from the effect of new and contradictory forces at work on it. …
AMERICAN POWER AND THE NEW MANDARINS, by Noam Chomsky. New York: Pantheon Books. 404 pp. $7.95. NOAM CHOMSKY dedicates these essays “to the brave young men who refuse to serve in a criminal war.” This dedication reflects the tone and …
The Minister of Education tried persuasion, tried reasoning with some of these youngsters, tried to advise them. Very well. But, of course, advice alone is not sufficient. If they don’t understand persuasion, then they will have to understand another kind …
In 1966, the year before Cesar Chavez’s United Farm Workers Organizing Committee began its national boycott of California grapes, South Vietnam was the world’s 23rd largest importer of fresh table grapes from America. Today it is the world’s fifth largest …
In 1924, in an autobiographical sketch, Yevgeny Zamyatin (1884- 1937) wrote of his student days, `I was a Bolshevik then (today I am not).” In 1914 Tsarist authorities suppressed Zamyatin’s novella At the World’s End, which satirized the life of …
On one view, the development of what is called “technology” is a promise, not only of improvement in the material conditions of life, but also of peace and even social justice. Among the other views perhaps the most interesting sees …
In 1960, in his book The Unfinished Revolution, Adam Ulam gave promise of being a rising star in the field of Soviet studies. To be sure, his interpretation of Lenin suffered seriously from being a mere paraphrase of a book …
Robert Lowell’s new volume of poetry continues his passionate meditation on history selectively knotted up out of his personal torments, family and friends, his New England and religious ancestries, and the heroic or ruined underside of the past. What is …
NOTEBOOK, 1967-68, by Robert Lowell. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 161 pp. $6.00. ROBERT LOWELL’S NEW VOLUME of poetry continues his passionate meditation on history selectively knotted up out of his personal torments, family and friends, his New England …
Communism has been the ideology of the industrial proletariat. The industrial proletariat is technologically obsolete. History and Historical Dialectic Our motto is the basic fact behind the travail of Eastern Europe today. The matrix comes straight out of Marx. In …
There is an essential shoddiness in Richard Nixon’s politics that shines out, like fool’s gold, from every word he speaks and every step he takes. In domestic policy (Southern school desegregation, tax “reform,” Supreme Court appointments, etc.) this is clear …
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