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 …
The following letter was sent in early October to the New York Times. TO THE EDITOR: WE BELIEVE JOHN LINDSAY should be reelected Mayor of New York. The choices before us do not fill us with joy. We would have …
THE DEMOCRATIC LEFT in Latin America, once considered the great hope of the Western hemisphere, seems everywhere in decline. Challenged by both the Right and the extreme Left, the democratic radical reformers and their parties seem to have lost their …
IN ENGLAND 1795 was a gloomy year. Respectable opinion divided its concern between the wild French revolutionaries, their possible impact upon discontented Englishmen, and the soaring domestic price level. As usual it was worse to be poor and unrespectable. Bread, …
LAST SPRING the University of Oxford published, mainly for internal circulation, the Report of the Committee on Relations with Junior Members.* The investigatory prose of university committees is not in short supply or great demand, but the Oxford committee’s report …
THE ORIGINS OF SOCIALISM, by George Lichtheim. New York: Frederick A. Praeger. 302 pp. $6.95 (paper $2.95). One of the most intelligent and prolific among contemporary historians of socialism, George Lichtheim displays in almost all of his work two sides: …
This is a good time to remember what we owe the students. Owe, not to one or another group and certainly not to the “actions” of last year, but to the fresh and undogmatic young people who in 1963-64 began …
Rebellion in the Italian universities was already detectable in 1966. The crucible of the student movement, however, was the month-long occupation of the Turin campus in November 1967. From Turin the rebellion spread throughout the country, making a clean sweep of …
The Alliance for Labor Action, after some initial false starts, has held its first conclave formally linking the world’s two largest unions, the United Auto Workers and the International Brotherhood of Teamsters. ” The friendship was there all the time,” …
American armed forces today, including as they do levies of conscripts, do not constitute an army of citizen-soldiers. They are not subject to effective democratic control. Elimination of conscription will not introduce a “mercenary army”: we already have one. On …
As the car moves from the airport through the city, memories return: the giant village of two-story houses we saw 38 years ago is still there. Tall towers in Stalin’s wedding-cake style now shoot up in-between every now and then, …
As I always tell my students at Johnson City University, it was not easy for educated Americans of the last century to throw off the yoke of European culture, especially that of British literature and opinion. In the first place, …
My title is not a misprint. The liaison between sex and socialism, though of long standing, has always been more an affair than a marriage. Except for occasional outbursts of passion, neither partner has been particularly eager to acknowledge the …
