Locarno II

The second annual Locarno Conference on Politics and Society was held this past May at the Biblioteca Cantonale in Locarno, Switzerland. The conference brings together Dissent editors and writers with our European counterparts—this year with editors of Esprit (Paris) and Reset (Rome) and with other left intellectuals from Poland, Germany, Sweden, Britain, Spain, Switzerland, France, and Italy. The talks and papers dealt with immigration, regionalism, television’s impact on politics, and the moral and political problems of military intervention. Some of the papers will appear as Dissent articles (also in various European magazines) over the next months. (Joel Roman’s “Letter from Par...