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 …
“You can’t do nothing with them white folks. They have the money and the power. When they feel like doing something, they’ll do it. I asked Mr. Barry [the landlord] to fix my bathroom, and he says he will. Those …
In recent years, managerial elites have urgently sought to justify what it is they do. As Wilbert Moore remarked in his Conduct of the Corporation (1962), executives have become worried about the merit of their positions, the salaries they receive …
Alienation is now itself an ideology. It is also a category into which many different kinds of experience are directed and in effect lost. Yet the basic emphasis, on an absence or loss of connection or community, remains central to …
The paddy wagons stopped in the narrow Freedom Alley that runs behind the Albany, Georgia, jail. One of the cops ran ahead and unlocked the heavy metal door, and the others dragged us out and across the gravelly court and …
We print below a condensed transcript of a discussion held in May 1964 between a number of leading figures in the Civil Rights Movement and several editors of DISSENT. Among the participants: Bayard Rustin, organizer of the March on Washington …
Half the art of politics consists in timing. Programs cease to be relevant after a certain point; they matter only if applied at the appropriate moment. For years now both radical and even non-radical students of the Vietnamese situation have …
The increase in the freedom of ordinary men and women during the last two generations has taken place, not in spite of the action of Governments, but because of it. It has been due to the fact that, once political …
Let me start with some statistics. There are 132 elementary schools and 31 junior high schools in New York City whose students are almost entirely (over 90% in the elementary schools; over 85% in the junior highs) Negro and Puerto …
Soon, One Morning: New Writing by American Negroes edited by Herbert Hill Alfred A. Knopf, 617 pp., $6.95 This collection should not be thought of as inclusive: one will search in vain for such novelists as Mark Kennedy, Julian Mayfield, …
The Quiet Crisis by Steward I. Udall Holt, Rinehart and Winston God’s Own Junkyard: The Planned Deterioration of America’s Landscape by Peter Blake Holt, Rinehart and Winston Stewart Udall’s book is a brief, sobering history of land use in this …
The State of the Unions by Paul Jacobs Atheneum, 1963, 303 pp., $5 Labor Today: The Triumphs and Failures of Unionism in the United States by B.J. Widick Houghton Mifflin, 1964, 238 pp., $3.75 America Comes of Middle Age by …
