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 …
HOW CAN ANYBODY raise more than about one-half of a cheer for the tattered British Labour party? Few Britons would go that far. Seeing themselves as condemned to five years of Hard Labour, they are more likely to hiss or …
With the following article we continue our discussion, from various points of view, of the problem of war and peace in the Middle East. We welcome comment from readers who disagree with M. Lapierre; some may be interested in turning …
STUDENT ACTIVISM still looms as the foremost fact of life in schools everywhere. In the past year demands have escalated, tactics have become more disruptive and abrasive, countermeasures more harsh and angry. While it is too early to say what …
THE SENATE DEBATE last summer on the ABM system was important not only in its own right, but also for the practice it gave senators in evaluating military-political issues. Since the end of the Second World War military budgets have …
“A SPECTER is haunting Europe,” mocked Anthony Crosland in an attack on the traditional Left of the British Labour party nearly ten years ago, “the specter of revisionism.” Crosland was the leading theorist on the right wing of the party, …
A MEXICAN WIFE languishing in the brick-and-neon waste of an industrial town naturally leaps at any tropic glimmer—even a lecture amid the folding chairs of the Community Room of Trinity Church. I was unenthusiastic. What I remembered about Maryknoll missionaries …
