Greed was once more the occasion for moralistic comment in the wake of last fall’s Ivan Boesky affair. Newsweek led its December 1 story with a quote from a Boesky commencement address at the University of California’s School of Business …
This book is about motherhood. Its main thrust is a call for a national policy that would support women as mothers. The author shows that the United States hardly has any such policy and in this respect differs sharply from …
It’s 1987. We’re celebrating the two hundredth anniversary of the drafting of the Constitution, and the Reagan administration has done much to make the occasion relevant. With a fine sense of timing, it’s gone public with the notion that the …
Now that “instant analysis” of the Howard Beach tragedy has given way to the criminal justice process and to the combination of symbolic appropriation and amnesia that envelops such events, we need to retrieve a few lessons about leadership from …
It is impossible to discuss U.S. defense policy without locating it within an examination of foreign policy in all its ramifications. A discussion that limits itself to questions of technology and hardware on the one hand, or grotesque costs on …
The Hanford Nuclear Reservation is located on the banks of the Columbia River in eastern Washington State. It is surrounded by fertile land that produces wheat, wine grapes, potatoes, apples, and cherries. The ground under Hanford is basalt, a porous …
Sitting in a pew at the Cedarview Methodist Church in Kingsport, I was chatting with Jennie Wilson, grandmother of two of the children in the Hawkins County school system who, through a trial this past July, won the right to …
1982: The Triumph-Adler typewriter company is on the skids, and its 9,000 employees told that they are about to be laid off 1983: The company holds one-sixth of the world market for electronic typewriters; its prices are down by 30 …
The U.S. health care non-system is inhuman and inefficient. Among major Western industrialized nations only the U.S. and South Africa do not uphold the principle that health is a human right. The major political and medical establishments say we have …
The author opposes the participation of socialists in the electoral politics of the Democratic party, arguing that such participation cannot advance socialist objectives since the Democratic party represents capitalist interests. Although it is intended to apply pressure from working people …
You need—said Oscar Wilde about the death of Dickens’s Little Nell—a heart of stone not to laugh. So too about Irangate, contragate, Reagangate.
I n the summer of 1964 July was “Hospitality Month” in Mississippi. But as the volunteers and staff of the Mississippi Summer Project began settling into the countryside, what they found waiting for them was, as one volunteer put it, …
I had the pleasure to be a foreign expert at Hebei University in 1984. The opportunity to live in Baoding, to get to know a city I had never even heard of, and to meet Chinese teachers and students was …
Jesse Jackson as a leading left-of-center political force is again receiving a lot of attention. There are numerous concerns about Jackson: Does he have a legitimate function in black American politics? A legitimate function in American politics? Given his deployment …
It was expected that General Motors would announce plant closings. But when the announcement came last November, the scale was astounding: 29,000 workers in 11 plants laid off. Almost two thirds of the affected unionized workers (17,450) live in Michigan. …
