For nearly a half century the American Civil Liberties Union functioned, to quote the late Elmer Rice, as “a nonpolitical, nonpartisan, nonsectarian organization whose sole purpose is the protection and perpetuation of those rights and liberties guaranteed by the Bill of …
Two pillars of the military establishment in the House, Mendel Rivers and George Mahon, clashed heatedly on the chamber floor on May 20. Rivers is Chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, Mahon Chairman of the House Appropriations Committee. Traditionally, the …
Free associations to the word “abortion” would probably yield a fantastic array of emotional responses: pain, relief, murder, crime, fear, freedom, genocide, guilt, sin. Which of these associations people have no doubt reflects their age, marital status, religion, or nationality. …
Pessimists who predict a racial apocalypse in the United States base their judgment largely on two assumptions. First, they assume a rigid polarization of blacks and whites. This means viewing each racial group as an undifferentiated mass that is not …
The negro intelligentsia in the United States has recently faced several critical points in its evolution. These crises have been both sociological— including a new social composition, shifting intellectual activities, a changing relationship to whites—and indirectly political, as the Negro lower …
John Womack’s excellent study of Zapata and his fight to protect the rights of Mexican campesinos in Morelos deserves the praise it has received from reviewers.
Harvard is no more like other American universities than rich people are like the rest of us. This is partly because the place is truly richer than other universities. At Harvard the consequences of opulence are to be seen in …
College Teachers’ Union Editor: May I make a few corrective comments on our UFCT member Murray Hausknecht’s analysis of the City University collective bargaining election? 1. The union’s position on promotions is that of a dual track of advancement up …
Senator George McGovern has expressed the fear that the might of American institutions will be rallied in “a war against the young.” Irritated with campus dissent, itching for a chance to crack down on radicals, handed convenient pretexts by the irresponsible …
Hippies seem to fascinate the mass media somewhat less than they did a year or two ago. But they have not disappeared. Older Hippies, who refused to reconvert to straight society, have moved from Haight Ashbury to Big Sur or other …
Unrest and discontent characterize Negro student communities on campuses throughout this nation. The unrest manifests itself both internally and externally; the discontent stems from the conditions in which many of these students have been forced to live. For today, the …
An intellectual’s lot is not a happy one —at least if the setting is the White House, the President Lyndon B. Johnson, and the man of ideas Eric Goldman, on leave from Princeton to serve as Special Consultant to the President …
When James Forman, the militant black leader, seized the altar of the Riverside Church in order to read a demand for $500 million in reparations for American Negroes, it was clear enough that the First Amendment to the Constitution was …
This past May the Legal Defense Fund of the NAACP organized a series of discussions on the present phase of the civil rights struggle, which brought out in sharp focus the divergent philosophies in the Negro community.
Inevitably, the first question every American visitor asks Israelis is: “What about the occupied territories?” The answers, in that highly political and vocal country, cut across party lines. A young raftan (dairy worker) in a kibbutz in the Gall explains …
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