Prague, July 15, 1968, seems different from before. While there are more shops and restaurants, more scaffoldings on the old houses in need of restoration, and more cars in the streets, these changes say little. In fact, their insignificance is …
A year ago John Bailey wrote to all county chairmen in the Democratic party informing them that President Johnson was going to be renominated, and that they should ignore those “doubters and cussers” who would “rather be heard than helpful.” With …
Lionel Abel’s “Important Nonsense: Norman 0. Brown” (DISSENT, March-April 1968) proves only that Abel calls “nonsense” anything that won’t squeeze into his preconceptions. Brown’s work just doesn’t fit the squeeze, and so it cannot be fairly described—much less criticized—in Abel’s …
This massive yet gracefully written book is a definitive political history of Europe during the period of the Paris Peace Conference from November• 1918 to June 1919. The work provides a worthy sequel to Mayer’s earlier study, Political Origins of the …
Lionel Trilling’s story “Of This Time, Of That Place” begins with a young English professor assigning to his freshman class as their first theme the writing of an essay on “Who I am and Why I came to Dwight College.” The …
Liberal analysts of the economy leapfrog from one plan for abolishing poverty to another. Currently, the spotlight beams on manpower training and development as the answer to the misery of the urban ghetto and the rural wasteland. The hypothesis here …
First of all I must grant Art Efron something, for there is one matter on which he is partly right—not really right, not meaningfully right, not even half right—but however pointlessly, he is, in any case, partly right. I make …
By the end of this summer, whether or not the relief missions are successful, the breakaway nation of Biafra and fully a third of its 15 million citizens may both be dead. The political tragedy of this prolonged and agonizing …
If some ideas about the possible form of a political opposition in present-day Czechoslovakia give the impression of a desire “to have your cake and eat it, too,” we cannot be surprised. That the more progressive and democratically minded in the …
Professor Berman’s earlier A Reader’s Guide to Shakespeare’s Plays may have been helpful. I wouldn’t know. His present guide to the intellectual life of the sixties, however, is not of much use. Both title and subtitle are misleading. This is not …
Phil came to Boston in the midsummer of 1935. He was the district organizer of the Communist party. His arrival was fortuitous. It coincided with the meeting of the Seventh World Congress of the Comintern and the emergence of a new …
The students for a Democratic Society held its annual convention June 9-15 at Michigan State University, and delegates witnessed some dramatic new developments without precedent in the history of the organization. “Old-timers” who held out so much hope for the …
Is mass culture an abomination, a harmless anodyne, or a blessing? These are the real, if often merely implicit, questions in an interminable and ferocious debate.
It all began in Nanterre. Those who were surprised by the events of May 1968 would do well to visit the spot where the conflagration broke out. There, between a shantytown perched on a low plateau and low-cost housing developments, …
Perhaps the most significant thing to be said about the May 1968 convention of Americans for Democratic Action (ADA) was its revived spirit and liveliness, particularly impressive to one who had witnessed the factional bickering of the previous year’s convention. …
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