For any rational man seriously committed to the values of an authentic liberalism or liberal socialism, the present mood must be one of despair, and even agony. For the processes of American democracy have proved inadequate to the task of …
“Government in these days is a consequence solely of military power”: so observed the great Islamic philosopher, al-Ghazali, when describing Moslem nations in 1100. His aphorism applies only too well in many of the developing countries of our time. Plus …
For the past twenty years or so, the study of literature has been dominated by formal analysis. We have been told to examine carefully the structure, imagery, and tone of a literary work, so that we can see the novel …
It is most fascinating that Saul Alinsky’s approach to community organizing is commonly regarded as a radical one and that a number of people with progressive and radical leanings are so strongly attracted to it. However, the Alinsky model neither …
Paul Goodman now has 21 books in print and we can expect two more within the year. These 21 are variously short stories, dramas, poetry, literary and social criticism, works on psychotherapy, community planning, and education. Five Years, which is …
To novelists, social scientists seem a subversive class. It is not merely that the latter have increasingly invaded the hitherto settled territory of the novelist—the individual’s complex ties with his society. Far worse. In recent years they have sought to …
Editors: In his article “Let’s Talk Sense About Oswald,” in the March—April 1967 issue, Henri Rabasseire suggests that much credit must be given to the Warren Report because the case for Oswald has been built on material contained in the …
The Freedom Budget is a coherent, pragmatic, democratic, non-apocalyptic program for political action. Unfortunately, the Vietnam War makes it far more utopian than anything proposed by Narodnicki students who allegedly don’t understand politics. This is not the fault of Bayard …
There is hunger in the welfare state; everywhere standards are chronically inadequate. The most glaring inadequacy of the welfare system—the diet of the poor—has been patched over by supplementary programs: first surplus commodities, now food stamps, both administered by the …
Early in 1960, when the big price-fixing indictments against General Electric were made, Ralph J. Cordiner, GE board chairman, called the resulting publicity a “blow upon the company’s good name. But this situation will pass,” he added, “as have other …
Most Americans react indignantly when the U.S. is accused of following a path of world conquest. Comparisons with Hitler, with Stalin, and with the imperial machinery of England and France in the nineteenth century are met by shocked outrage. Educated …
The obvious answer is, No of course not. But there are signs and portents. It’s a strange moment. There is a lot of social uproar in the country. With the possible exception of China, no major power in the world …
A generation has elapsed without a general depression in the United States. For six years the economy has not even experienced a recession. Most economists are now quite ready to admit that our kind of economy can avoid depressions permanently …
For a discipline that is a regular target for bad jokes about its jargon, the superficiality of its concepts, and the pseudo-scientific quality of its research techniques, sociology has an astonishingly prominent position in the culture. “Anomie,” “power structure,” “Protestant …
Baran and Sweezy may have felt that in writing Monopoly Capital they were doing for the Space Age what Karl Marx had done for the Textile Age and Lenin for the Steel Age. Let it be said from the outset …
