Ours is an omnivorous culture. Even the most prickly and apparently indigestible of critics, like Lenny Bruce and Paul Goodman, get cannibalized. It ought therefore to surprise no one that a socialist leader in America should be universally honored as …
I remember Lukacs from the thirties as a Marxist literary critic who all agreed was a great, original thinker, though no one I knew had read more than one or two of his pieces. My own assent to his reputation …
What Is Meant by Decentralization and What Is Not Meant Decentralizing is increasing the number of centers of decision-making and the number of initiators of policy; increasing the awareness by individuals of the whole function in which they are involved; …
The Goldwater nomination marks a new departure in American politics. For the first time, a Presidential candidate lends focus to the conservative and reactionary forces in both parties. Goldwater is basically the candidate of the well-connected bureaucrat of the Mitchell …
At least one-third of the country seems fully prepared to vote for a right-wing candidate for President (30%-40% of Northern Democrats were for Wallace; 30-60% of Northern Republicans for Goldwater; maybe 60% of Southern whites for him). These people are …
Simply by winning the Republican nomination, Senator Goldwater has left a strong imprint on American politics. Everything now shifts in his direction. The apparatus of a major party lies in the grip of his friends: nor will they easily be …
“From Mississippi the rest of the United States seems unreal,” Bob Moses, director of the Mississippi Summer Project, remarked to a group of volunteers at our orientation session at Oxford, Ohio. At that time my own mental picture of the …
The Haunted Fifties by I. F. Stone Random House, 1963, $5.95 Events enter the world, Karl Kraus used to say, as journalistic cliches. Surely the dead hand of the word is not to be doubted in our day: these cliches …
Night Comes to the Cumberland: A Biography of a Depressed Area by Harry C. Caudill, foreword by Stewart Udall Little, Brown and Co., 1963, 394 pp., $6.75 The mountain ballad is a sad song. Harry Caudill’s book has the tone …
Crisis in Black and White by Charles E. Silberman Random House, 1964, 370 pp., $5.95 “If whites were to stop all discriminatory practices tomorrow, this alone would not solve ‘the Negro problem.’ To be sure, an end to discrimination is …
The Prophet Outcast: Trotsky, 1929-1940 by Isaac Deutscher Oxford University Press, 523 pp., $9.50 Now the author brings to its sorrowful end the story of Leon Trotsky, the biography begun with The Prophet Armed, continued with The Prophet Unarmed, and …
The brief life of Anne Parsons was a search for purity and meaning, a longing for a better world to live in. There was about it the white beauty of a church steeple or of a fresh snowfall in the …
There are two signs on Manhattan’s E. 2nd St. One in neat blue letters announces the headquarters of Mobilization for Youth. The other in scrawled yellow paint stakes out 2nd St. as “Dragon’s Territory”; beneath it the same hand has …
The writer had the good fortune to be on March 6, 1963, at the Institute for the Advanced Contemplation of Human Affairs in Fordograd. The annual self-criticism meeting in the Explanation Division was slightly expanded in view of its decennial …
Even the least popular regimes in Asia find men to join their armies. These men are the rice soldiers. They are not soldiers in the usual sense, no matter how much they may look like soldiers and no matter how …
