In our society there are two kinds of minority status. One of these I will call the “hot-blooded” minorities, whose archetypical image is that of the Negro or Latin. In the United States, “Teen-agers” are treated as a “hot-blooded” minority. …
As nuclear energy and rockets are again revealing, science itself is intrinsically more revolutionary than any ideology or political or social movement. Merely trying to adjust to new scientific and technological discoveries imposes a perpetual revolution on modern societies. (Consider, …
On February 15,1963 the arrest of several army officers and their accomplices aborted a new attempt on the life of General de Gaulle; the eighth such attempt since he took power on May 14, 1958. Go back to the remotest …
To Dr. Isaac Schipper, the Polish-Jewish historian who was my closest neighbor in the potato-peeling brigade at the Maidanek concentration camp, I owe an insight which has haunted me ever since my stay there. “There is no such thing as …
For over one hundred days the New York printers stood up against an attack without parallel in recent union negotiations, and achieved what may fairly be called a victory. The most remarkable aspect of the strike was not the tenacity …
How many readers can recall the intellectual atmosphere in this country at the time Dissent started publishing, almost a decade ago? It was a moment of retreat, even rout. A good many intellectuals formerly of the left were engaged in …
I have been asked several times during the last years to sign a statement requesting the Mexican government to release the painter Siqueiros from prison. He has been sentenced for a long term because he led a violent demonstration against …
Jim Peck is one of those remarkable men who make us all feel a little more human and dignified. Like his colleagues in CORE, he didn’t need the bona fides of 53 stitches in his head, earned on a Freedom …
Claude Eatherly, as too few Americans yet know, is the pilot who led the bombing mission which dropped the first atom bomb on mankind over Hiroshima, and the second three days later over Nagasaki. Through acts of repentance, from trying …
Harold Rosenberg is a brilliant critic whose most telling perceptions derive more easily from an organizing of ideas than from observation and description. He invented the name “Action Painting” for the currently fashionable American style that began after the war …
Anyone familiar with Professor Lowenthal’s Literature and the Image of Man would not be disposed to postpone for very long the satisfaction of reading a new book of his. The present one breaks a good deal of new ground, especially …
Mass warfare developed in the modern world even before mass production or mass literacy. One of the rights won by the French revolution, as it turned out, was the right of everyone to take part in war. The Napoleonic wars …
There are ways in which Patriotic Gore is a masterpiece. As an evocation of the literary and intellectual figures whose experience was shaped by the Civil War, the book is Plutarchian in its vividness. It displays to full advantage Wilson’s …
The continued influence of Marxism as an intellectual doctrine, as distinct from its role as the integrating ideology of Communist societies and parties, surprises many who regard its basic errors and irrelevancies to the analysis of contemporary society as obvious. …
The sudden emergence of new nations in Asia and Africa poses crucial problems for our age. No longer is it sufficient to applaud the demise of imperialism. We have also to discard any previous reliance on simple ideologies of progress. …
