One of the striking intellectual phenomena of the past decade is the academic literature on military strategy: a literature produced not by military planners but by social scientists writing from within the academy or from such havens as the RAND …
The freedom of publication, speech, and opinion that is claimed by the university professor is not in principle different from that claimed by other men in liberal society. Difficulties surrounding academic freedom in the past arose mainly from the fact …
I fear I may be writing even these fragmentary observations under false pretenses. In “A Quarterly of Socialist Opinion,” I am writing about Professors. But I am not a Socialist, and I am not a Professor. (It is not enough, …
Massive federal financing of the sciences which in principle should be strengthening American society, in practice threatens to divert science and higher education from their proper goals. In the universities, the influx of government funds has often narrowed rather than …
Over nineteen thousand students registered at San Jose State College this fall, two thousand more than a year ago. This rate of increase is common among California colleges, where the shock of the population explosion has been felt year after …
In 1956 the University of Michigan entered into a partnership with the Flint Board of Education to establish a distribution outlet in Flint. The purpose of this cultural service station—the Flint College of the University of Michigan—is to provide undergraduate …
“Where we differ,” the administrator said, “is that you think a college should be a democracy; you forget that it is a corporation.” The student wrote: “To be a Negro in America is a perpetual wonder and bewilderment.” The remarks …
If these are, as ever, times that try men’s souls, most academics will soon see to it that the trial is carried on at a safe distance from the American campus. And the consequences will be most damaging in the …
Like Dr. Johnson, Paul Goodman loves the University of Salamancha. He admires the strong sense of corporate responsibility and independence among those old Dominicans who spoke with one voice against the most powerful government of their time. He guesses that …
In 1950, 2,214,000 students were enrolled in American colleges and universities. By 1960 the total had grown to 3,570,000 and in the last academic year it was 4,207,000. Projections for 1970 range as high as seven million. This increase is …
James Baldwin first came to the notice of the American literary public not through his own fiction but as author of an impassioned criticism of the conventional Negro novel. In 1949 he published in Partisan Review an essay called “Everybody’s …
Editors: I read with great interest Lewis Coser’s article “The Hungarian Revolution Revisited,” [Summer, 1963], in which he wrote (referring to the beginning of the revolutionary movement in Budapest in October, 1956): “Nobody in the West, certainly, had any inkling …
Before World War II arms control agreements never involved national or international inspection systems; the great powers relied upon their own intelligence agencies to detect violations. That old method has a certain appeal: spies instead of inspectors. And Allen Dulles …
This summer, with my family on a camping trip, I passed briefly through Jackson, Mississippi. I don’t want to write my impressions of that unhappy town, but to limit myself to telling of our meeting with Charles Butts, the young …
The author of this book has a case to make. He argues that the “Palmer raids” and the Red scare of 1919-20 were not an aberration due to World War I and the Russian revolution. Rather, these events stimulated the …
