The following letter, in condensed version, was sent to the New York Times by the editor of Dissent: TO THE EDITOR: It is hard to speak of the Chicago trial with anything but bitterness. What occurred there was not merely …
In a period rich with controversy one should perhaps allow fading quarrels to die. It is not my primary intention to rekindle the heated debate that swirled about Miss Arendt’s Eichmann in Jerusalem, but rather to see that book within …
Our usual policy is not to reprint articles from American magazines, but we feel that the one below is important enough to warrant a departure from that policy. It first appeared in the Monthly Review, June 1969, and is here …
The editorial credo of the New York Review of Books, which began publication in February 1963, was what one might expect of a highbrow journal. … Neither time nor space … have been spent on books which are trivial in …
Colonel Joseph Bellas is probably one of those ordinary officers not likely to be remembered in the annals of warfare, but he recently delivered himself of a statement that is unforgettable. The Colonel is in command of a hospital in …
Inflation has become the major economic problem in the U.S. The “fight against inflation” mounted by the Nixon administration is of necessity conducted at the expense of the working poor, much of organized labor, and younger breadwinners with wages and …
Michael Walzer justifiably wants to loosen up the traditional definition of civil disobedience to include the kinds of mildly coercive acts and limited resistance to police that he found in the sit-down strike of 1936- 37. Surely this is one …
The demand for deeper change in American society is an encouraging sign. Liberals, affirming their faith in the country, concede “the system” remains obdurate and search for policies beyond the New Deal. New Leftists, despairing of “the system,” may yet …
THE STATE IN CAPITALIST SOCIETY, by Ralph Miliband. New York: Basic Books. 292 pp. $6.95. RALPH MILIBAND, of the London School of Economics, has prepared a careful defense of a socialist critique of “advanced capitalist society.” The main burden of …
To borrow from the Jews—with somewhat different nuance—it’s hard to be a black. For example: an American occupation that, almost from the beginning, came to be identified with the position of black men in the society was that of the …
What is a good tax law? Radicals are likely to apply three criteria to legislative handiwork. If, as economists in the days of the Old Welfare economics used to believe and socialists continue to believe, human beings are approximately equal …
Are the rights and liberties of the American people being sent to hell in a basket? Or do they stand relatively secure, unaffected by “law and order” counter-pressures? Social and political tensions have been mounting through the late ’60s. For …
Black union activity is on the Increase. Blacks are organizing new locals among hospital workers, municipal employees, and in the retail and service trades. Black caucuses form at union conventions, and there are national black caucuses within the United Auto …
What is a magazine these days without its judicious film critic, whether for scene significant or kitsch unlimited: Stanley Kubrick cannot be too heavy, nor Peter Fonda too light. But why do they all read like Polonius? Maybe their trouble—at …
The best long-term bet [for combating poverty], we think, is simply education. Despite some encouraging studies of compensatory programs, experience suggests education is a better engine of social advancement than any alternative. And partly because too much energy has been …
