In practice the ACCF has fallen behind Sidney Hook’s views on civil liberties. Without implying any “conspiracy” theory of history (or even of intellectual intrigue), one may safely say that it is Hook who has molded the decisive ACCF policies. …
In his 1966 State of the Union message, Lyndon B. Johnson said that if the war in Vietnam were to go on, it should not be financed at the expense of the worst-off in the society but rather by the …
The losers of the 1966 Congressional elections are easy enough to identify. They include the black and white poor, the Negroes generally, both unorganized and organized wage workers, people who live in cities, liberals, radicals, etc. By and large the …
I had begun this introduction as an analysis of the relationship between DISSENT and the times which the articles in this volume both depict and reflect. More or less inevitably, this led to a consideration of the revival of American …
By now, there is a fair-sized library devoted to the definition and description of poverty in the United States. The Government itself has financed some excellent studies (Mollie Orshansky’s analysis for the Social Security Administration is an outstanding example). And …
Can poverty in the United States be abolished within the limits of the welfare state? Or does the present commitment to end the scandal of economic misery in the richest nation history has known require measures which will go beyond …
I am writing this from New Haven. Last night I debated a retired general on the House Un-American Activities Committee before about two hundred students. The meeting was sponsored by “Challenge,” an organization at Yale which brings controversial speakers to …
In some ways Harlem is different. It is not the solidest or the best organized Negro community (Negro political representation came to Chicago a full decade before New York). It is not the most depressed, even in the New York …
After a decade of injustice, the Attorney General of the United States casually removed the Independent Socialist League from his List of Subversive Organizations a month or so ago. In announcing the decision, no reference was made to the merits …
In the last year or so, theory has become news. The debate over the character of the changes taking place in Russian society has been carried on, not merely by a few radical intellectuals, but by government officials, newspapermen, indeed …
The Capital District is an urban complex around Albany, New York. It includes Troy, a winter-beaten sort of city, with shops and factories, old enough to have a down-town section with much of the architectural charm of Louisburg Square in …
IN HIS TIME the “psychologist” Coue may have seemed a mere passing fad, yet he struck deep roots in America. His main therapeutic technique—the repetition of the sentence, Day by Day, In Every Way, I am Getting Better and Better—summoned …
During the past few months ex-Senator Harry Cain has defended the Fifth Amendment; a Senate Committee has expressed doubts about the workings of the Attorney General’s “Subversive List”; the State Department, in an orgy of issuing passports as an aftermath …
That the American Committee for Cultural Freedom is a grouping of some significance in our intellectual life, is not to be disputed. Its well-publicized statements are often taken as the quasi-official opinion of intellectual liberalism. It counts among its members, …
