Reds Through Rosy Glasses  

Reds, like all soap opera, is a test of one’s good will. Does one see the glass half-full, and credit earnestness and energy? Or see the glass half empty, and allow oneself to feel annoyance at scenes in which the …



On the Trail of The American Hero  

What is a magazine these days without its judicious film critic, whether for scene significant or kitsch unlimited: Stanley Kubrick cannot be too heavy, nor Peter Fonda too light. But why do they all read like Polonius? Maybe their trouble—at …



The New Politics Box  

“Take over NCNP!” begged a headline in the New Politics News, the convention bulletin of the National Conference for a New Politics, which convened in Chicago on August 30 to create some sort of “organization and action”—possibly a third ticket …