We print below several excerpts from a statement by Dr. Kenneth B. Clark, professor of psychology at the City University of New York and president of the Metropolitan Applied Research Center. His statement was first delivered as an address to …
The whim of history will press into a man’s hand a flag behind which he rallies people—only to discover that he does not understand them and that they don’t know why they follow him. This happened to George F. Kennan, …
Eugene McCarthy has demonstrated enormous political courage in challenging President Johnson directly in the primaries. He is not a man much given to the quixotic gesture. And since he has risked the ire of the supremely powerful in this country, …
This memoir is at once significant in content and slightly frivolous in effect. It was written by a Columbia professor after three years of hard labor at the Fudge Factory— as the State Department is known to refugees from the …
The State Department has denied Vladimir Dedijer admission to the United States and has thereby prevented him from taking up his duties as a visiting professor at MIT.
Americans are proud of the fact that the nation is becoming young. Nearly half the population is now under 25 years of age and about a third under 15. While this may mean crowded colleges or teen-age unemployment, the problems …
If some critics are right, Black Humor may be the only new or important development in American fiction since World War II. The important writers are John Barth, William Burroughs, and Thomas Pynchon—but also James Purdy, Joseph Heller, J. P. …
Surely, the time has come to end the Vietnam War. Leave aside, for the moment, the urgent moral considerations. Leave aside, also, the incontestable political reasons. The point has been reached where even motives of what might be called national …
The war in Vietnam has given rise to more agonies of conscience than any conflict in which America has participated during this century. The reason for this moral anguish is not hard to find. In the First and Second World Wars …
Peter Weiss writesat the edge of the bearable. Marat/Sade, his best-known play, assaults us mainly through the perpetual motion and emotion of a background of actors imprisoned in lunacy. Weiss’ scenic directions emphasize their shock function: “Their presence must set …
The movie How I Won The War is a cartoon using live actors instead of animation. Director Richard Lester, full of what one reviewer calls “aesthetic consciousness,” props up a group of wooden soldiers who drag a roller across the deserts …
In that best and worst of times for the South, the decade from 1955 to 1965, a remarkable drama unfolded. The best came out of “The Movement,” the loose coalition of civil-rights groups. The Movement’s young people, black and white, …
If anything troubles me in Michael Walzer’s thoughtful discussion of civil disobedience, it is the suggestion that those who use civil disobedience may “have to give way,” because they may be hurting the antiwar movement. I don’t believe that civil …
During their visits to Hanoi David Dellinger (editor of Liberation), Tom Hayden, and Nick Egleston (recent chairman of SDS) were invited to gather a group of about 40 American radicals in order to arrange a meeting with a group of …
A strong case could be made to show that America is a land that was won, expanded, divided, and healed by violence, a land in which a premium was placed on a readiness to fight and on a capacity—when necessary—to kill. …
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