Anyone who follows, even from a distance, the discussions now taking place among political thinkers in the Soviet Union, and who also remembers something about the history of Russian radicalism, must be experiencing an uncanny feeling. It’s as if the …
Looking through the American Communist party’s (CP) paper, the People’s Daily World, is like entering into the twilight zone—a place where reality is suspended. During a time when Stalinism has collapsed throughout Eastern Europe, the headlines of the paper have …
However admirable China’s democracy movement may have been last June (1989), its goals should not be confused with what we call “democracy” in the West. The Beijing Goddess of Democracy may have looked like the Statue of Liberty, but the …
George Bush wants to be the “education president” without spending money on education. Last year he achieved a “presence” on this issue by stealing the Democrats’ idea of an “Education Summit.” This is part of a “let them eat rhetoric” …
For whose benefit did President Bush invade Panama? How does it affect this country that Bush did not consult Congress? Will the invasion result in better living conditions for Latin America? Will it further long-run objectives of peace, justice, freedom? …
Women Analyze Women: In France, England, and the United States by Elaine Hoffman Baruch and Lucienne J. Serrano New York University Press, 1988 The Bonds of Love: Psychoanalysis, Feminism, and the Problem of Domination by Jessica Benjamin Pantheon Books, 1988 …
The Reagan era has bequeathed to us much, including, ironically, a new version of the materialist theory of the politics of culture. The essential claim of this theory is seductively simple: cultural expression reproduces, through all the appropriate “mediations,” the …
The recent political changes in Europe are so extensive, indeed, so astonishing that all of us have “fallen behind” in our thinking. It’s unavoidable. So let me here put down some quite obvious points, with no pretense to originality or …
The following dialogue between Abraham Brumberg and Irving Howe took place in early October 1989. Abraham Brumberg is a widely published authority on Soviet and Eastern European affairs and editor of the forthcoming Perestroika: Chronicle of a Revolution, published by …
Manhattan was first glitzed in late 1979 when developer Harry Helmsley and architects Emery Roth & Sons began making over a block-long property on Madison Avenue between 50th and 51st Streets. Under their direction, a mansion designed by McKim, Mead …
Talkin’ Socialism: J. A. Wayland and the Role of the Press in American Radicalism, 1890-1912 by Elliott Shore University Press of Kansas, 1988, 280 pp., $25.00 Few problems have troubled U.S. historians more than the question Werner Sombart posed in …
In 1987, at the outset of the Pit (“Praise the Lord”) scandal, the Reverend Jimmy Swaggart solemnly announced that “the gospel of Jesus Christ has never sunk to such a level as it has today.” Never mind the Inquisition: it …
The night is cold and damp as our weary group finishes a day-long drive. We follow the beaten pickup through back roads for several miles, then up a winding dirt road. We pass a check-in point staffed by camouflage-clad volunteers …
I first came to really know Mike Harrington in 1976 on a lecture tour in India arranged by the USIA for International Women’s Year. My tour included a small conference on “Social Diversity, Economic Inequality and Political Integration” at a …
Categories often exert a tyranny over our perceptions and judgments. An old joke— perhaps it even happened—from the bad old days of McCarthyism tells of a leftist rally in Philadelphia, viciously broken up by the police. A passerby gets caught …
