The confusion of modern politics runs so deep, the breakdown of those traditional responses which held together a more or less “enlightened” public is so complete, that one no longer knows what feeling an event is likely to evoke among people of some political sophistication, particularly among people of political sophistication.
The groping for conservative ideas involves the search for tradition rather than reason as guide; the search for some natural aristocracy as an anchor point of tradition and a model of character.
Nothing better illustrates the moral schizophrenia of our society than the generally accepted notion of what constitutes a wartime “atrocity.”
The June uprising in East Germany was not merely an incident in the resistance that has become part of daily life in the satellite areas; for this time the whole character of the resistance was suddenly, dramatically lifted to a new stage.
Radicals of the thirties, Travers Clement has recently suggested, can be classified as repenters and dissenters. The former predominate.
The accent of Dissent will be radical. Its tradition will be the tradition of democratic socialism.
The postwar flood of pornography shows no sign of abating and, for once, it seems, the dim congressmen, stern churchmen, and stiff-laced ladies are complaining about something real and reckonable.
Shared knowledge is the precondition of shared action. Without knowledge men are automatically excluded from decision making.
American Capitalism purports to be an explanation of why our economy works so well in spite of the Cassandras who regularly predict its collapse.
The Labor regime was the first effort to institute socialist policies, on some considerable scale, in a highly industrialized country, and simultaneously, to adopt these policies to a tradition of political democracy.
Socialist thought provides us with an imaginative and moral horizon.
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