Washington is a dismal place just now. The muddy Potomac, dreary and snuff-colored, stirs slowly and painfully like and old man waking to the agony of his years. Somehow, even the Capitol dome conveys an impression of timidity in pointing …
Last November, 800 Harvard students blocked the path of Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara, demanding that he consent to a public debate on Vietnam. The demonstrators thereby touched off a controversy on the tactics of confrontation, a controversy which continues …
1) The Heritage of Traditional Society India has been a traditional society for centuries. Writing of the country as it was after the death of Akbar the Great, in 1605 A.D., W. H. Moreland, the distinguished historian of India, observes …
Three years after President Kennedy’s assassination, we still don’t know much more than on the day after it. Nor are we ever likely to know more. The Warren Commission and its critics have not produced conclusive evidence of either Oswald’s …
A qualified victory in Southeast Asia was recently claimed by C. L. Sulzberger of the New York Times (January 29, 1967). The containment of China—assertedly the basic objective of U.S. policies in Southeast Asia, reaffirmed as such by Secretary of …
February 10, 1967 It is necessary to date one’s commentaries on China; the events are overtaking us, and only by sheer luck did our articles in the two preceding issues remain topical until they were in the hands of our …
To those who force all political shadings into a Right-Left spectrum, China’s “cultural revolution” looked like a further move to the “Left,” a more radical expression of Communism. Such facile judgments should have been checked against the more detailed information …
Under New York City’s ancien regime, presided over by the amiable Bob Wagner, political hot potatoes were handled by appointing committees to study them until they were cold and dead. A year ago New York voted for a change—a change …
Let me add a word to Mike Harrington’s valuable comment. It has become clear that—in the long run—the established interest groups and power blocs in American society seem to be weakening, perhaps disintegrating. This is a fact that those of …
The losers of the 1966 Congressional elections are easy enough to identify. They include the black and white poor, the Negroes generally, both unorganized and organized wage workers, people who live in cities, liberals, radicals, etc. By and large the …
This past summer I spent a few weeks in the Soviet Union. I visited Moscow, Leningrad, and Sochi, the Black Sea resort. It was an illuminating experience. I shall set down here my first impressions, with all their limitations and …
It is becoming common among philosophers to treat the progress of science and the proliferating system of technology as the now determining cause of history, autonomous and underlying like the Marxist “relations of production,” but narrower than that, less dependent …
On the first day of the Spring semester in 1964, the New York public school system was struck by a boycott through which citywide organizations managed virtually to empty every ghetto school. The object was integration; the results were eight …
This may be the right time to remind you of the occasion when we first met. I guess it was sometime in the middle of 1929, when worried young German Socialists convened a powwow to think of ways to save …
My dear Mr. Kiesinger: Before you are elected Federal Chancellor tomorrow, I venture a last attempt, before the widest public, to make you see reason. I belong to that generation whose fathers, the men of your generation, wittingly or unwittingly …
