Schisms within the trade unions reflect the fragmentation of American politics. Sooner or later policy differences, personal ambitions, and personality antagonisms were bound to set George Meany and Walter Reuther on a collision course. Working within the framework of an …
The problem of conscientious objection to particular wars agitates thoughtful Americans as never before. In its report to the President, the National Advisory Commission on Selective Service unanimously sustained the present system of granting exemptions to absolute pacifists, but by …
The San Francisco Chronicle story two days after the Oregon primary was entitled “How McCarthy `Caught Fire’ in Oregon” (through his sharp attacks on Bobby Kennedy, it conjectured). Next to this report, another headline read, “Humphrey Enjoys Oregon—and Counts Delegates.” …
The realities of the Vietnam War, long disregarded by Washington, are at last beginning to assert themselves. That the other side —the NLF and Hanoi—could not achieve a military victory has long been clear. The surprising strength displayed by the enemy …
In mass society, problems related to plagiarism and authorship can take on bizarre characteristics. Where large-scale organizations prevail, the head man is presumed to be too busy, too engaged, and too important to write his own speeches, policy papers, books, …
Though Francophilia remains common among American intellectuals, few are at ease with the intricacies of French intellectual life. We enjoy the clarity, logic, and verve of contemporary writing in France, but much of it remains obscure to us because we …
As of late June the Czechoslovak democratic revolution has managed to survive the first attempts at its liquidation. It has become clear that the revolutionary process cannot be brought down by Soviet military threats. The Dubcek leadership has not yielded …
Civil Disobedience Editor: The recent discussion of “Civil Disobedience and Resistance” in DISSENT magazine was provocative and helpful. I think however that there was a sense of the academic about the discussion and a tendency to define civil disobedience in …
George Lichtheim Socialism and the Jews THE FOLLOWING REMARKS have been occasioned by a recent revival of interest in the topic of socialist anti-Semitism. Or, to put the matter in a different context, by a rereading of scholarly …
HERBERT MARCUSE’S One Dimensional Man appeared four years ago. Since then, it has been widely, and on the whole, favorably reviewed, read, and discussed. Accepted by many as the long-awaited work that “tells it like it is,” Marcuse’s essay has …
The following statement was prepared before President Johnson’s announcement that he would institute an incomplete ban on the bombing of North Vietnam. Our hope is that events in the next few months—a cease-fire, negotiations toward peace— will render this statement …
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Some men suffer the fate of becoming the symbols of generations which misunderstand them. “Che” Guevara is a case in point. Suddenly, after his death he has become a folk hero of some young radicals in America and elsewhere. Guevara …
In times less accustomed to disappointment than our own, the recent events in Czechoslovakia would be cause for jubilation and toasts to the progress of freedom. As it is, they are cause for jubilation and toasts but at the same time …
During this period of escalating madness in American life, one of the few institutions from which the voice of sanity has clearly sounded has been the university. Recovering from the apathy of the 50’s, the university has become a center …
