People or Personnel: Decentralizing and the Mixed System by Paul Goodman Random House, 1965, 247 pp., $4.95 In a Few Hands: Monopoly in America by Estes Kefauver (with the assistance of Irene Till) Pantheon, 1965, 239 pp., $4.95 American liberalism …
Who Speaks for the Negro? by Robert Penn Warren Random House, 1965, 454 pp., $5.95 Robert Penn Warren, ex-Southerner, novelist, literary critic, and one-time apologist for segregation writes here about the civil rights movement. Such a combination of author and …
The Holocaust Kingdom by Alexander Donat Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1965, $5.95 It is unlikely that any reader of Mr. Donat’s book will be able to put it down without having been deeply moved. No matter how familiar one might …
Alienation and Freedom: The Factory Workers and His Industry by Robert Blauner University of Chicago Press, 1964, $7.50 “Alienation,” an increasingly fashionable word, is in danger of coming to mean nothing more than the vague sense of malaise many people …
The Next Generation: The Prospects Ahead for the Youth of Today and Tomorrow by Donald M. Michael Vintage Press, 218 pp., $1.65 This is a curious book. Written originally as a report to an agency of the federal government, it …
The Spring Time of Freedom: The Evolution of Developing Societies by William McCord Oxford University Press, 1965, 330 pp., $6.00 Favelados, the slum dwellers in Sao Paulo’s shantytowns, are the subject of a moving autobiography, Child of the Dark, by …
Castroism: Theory and Practice by Theodore Draper Frederick A. Praeger, 280 pp., $5.95 Theodore Draper, the noted historian of the Cuban Revolution, has grouped his most recent thought in Castroism: Theory and Practice, a series of essays, some already printed …
The surviving socialist generation had no sufficient reason to expect that the new fellows should or would follow their lead. The fact that this may be very much to the disadvantage of the young activists, does not alter the character …
Most of our teachers were not intellectuals, they were only experts. They had no engagement, only careers. When one was found in the strange state of political motion, he most often seemed to feel a bit fallen: “I speak not …
White ignorance of the Negro is always good for a laugh. That, of course, is to be expected. What upper class has ever known members of its lower class? Knowing them would break up the game. It is their functions, …
There was a time not so long ago, at the end of the Second World War, when people expected the whole world to go Socialist. Throughout the world there seemed to be an inevitable trend toward a more egalitarian society. …
After ten months of Labor Government one has entirely lost that confidence so widespread on the Left prior to the election, and reflected in our earlier DISSENT article. There we sketched a version of Labor’s strategy, an optimistic view of …
What can be said at this point about the broad goals and motivations of the present Chinese Communist leadership? The question is, of course, distressingly imprecise and begs further definition. Is the leadership a monolithic group? Have its goals remained …
The United States today is an astonishingly powerful nation. Yet it is a nation increasingly unable to apply its power effectively or in a manner satisfactory either to itself or to the rest of the world. This is less because …
Can poverty in the United States be abolished within the limits of the welfare state? Or does the present commitment to end the scandal of economic misery in the richest nation history has known require measures which will go beyond …
