It is not a happy moment at which I appear before you to offer my thoughts on the Jewish Problem. It evidently exists once again and, indeed, on an international scale. It’s “Brotherhood Week.” But where are the brothers? If …
The treatment of Eisenhower by historians has become as interesting as the history of his presidency per se. Revisionists looking back on his Administration through the prisms of Vietnam, the collapse of the Great Society, and double-digit inflation have discovered …
When 33 Haitians, whose frail craft had capsized, drowned and were washed ashore on Florida beaches last November while 34 others managed to swim ashore, what do you suppose agitated some government officials, apart from their declared policy of preventing …
David Brody is a bright young scholar who has made a serious effort to bring a new perspective to the study of American trade unions. His views are contained in this group of essays, which might more appropriately have been …
Neither Eisenhower nor Nixon nor Ford tried to tamper with the welfare state initiated by Roosevelt. In fact, all of them extended it to a significant extent. Now, almost 50 years after its inception, the growth of the welfare state …
In late 1971 and early 1972, for over seven months, 38,000 craft and clerical employees of New York Telephone struck in defiance of our employer and our national union, the Communication Workers of America. The strike was the culmination of …
Tomas Lindstrom is a commercial airline pilot. He was selected for the job because of his intelligence, physical strength, and mental stamina – characteristics that are critical for the complex and varied decisions a pilot must make during flight time. …
Dennis H. Wrong makes a convincing case for his belief that the present decline of liberalism in American politics is more than a normal turn in a cyclical pattern (in “How Critical Is Our Condition,” Fall 1981). Not only does …
The Social Democratic party (SDP) was launched in March 1981. It appeared at once as the most serious challenge to the British party system since Labour began to contend for national office in the 1920s, and as the biggest split …
We print this remarkable article—perhaps the most comprehensive portrait yet drawn of the inner workings of Salvadoran politics—as part of a group commissioned by the Mexican monthly Vuelta, edited by Octavio Paz, and the Foundation for the Study of Independent …
Four comments on Dennis Wrong’s article in our last issue — by Tom J. Farer, Mark Levinson, Seymour Martin Lipsit, Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. — with a reply by Dennis Wrong Dennis Wrong has written a modest essay, perhaps more modest …
I want to take up here two difficult and related matters, forced on the attention of some of us at the outset of the Second World War, matters which, from the spring of 1940, we found we would have to …
Any five minutes of Truffaut show his quickness, his intelligence, his authority in matching images with words, or using them to surprise each other, and his unrelaxed interest in the progress of a story. He sets the pace better than …
I left Warsaw after a recent eight-day stay impressed above all with the fluidity of the situation and the lack of precedent for what is taking place. Yet about several important things I am sure. First, Poland is experiencing a …
Perhaps there are some people in politics who might disagree with the Nobel Laureate and father of the Soviet H-bomb, Andrei D. Sakharov, when he writes in A Letter from Exile, “I feel that the questions of war and peace …
