Nations annually celebrate historic victories over past injustices and remember other historic events they do not celebrate. These are the recurrent nightmares that follow victories over tyranny and unjust social orders; those periods in which freedom must be defended but …
At the end of the war, the massive revelations of the genocide committed against the Jewish people—and of the way it was perpetrated—stunned the Western world. (The countries of Eastern Europe, long familiar with anti-Semitism, were not exempt from this …
Will President Reagan keep his promises? It depends on which ones you have in mind. Six days after the election an enthusiastic supporter of the victors, David Rockefeller, went to Argentina and exuberantly announced that at least one promise would …
Mistaken Identity Editors: Permit me to point out an error in fact in Jean Bloch-Michel’s article “Anti-Semitism and the French Right” (Summer 1980). Lucien Goldmann was neither a “former anarchist” nor was he killed by the neofascist Police Honor. He …
Among many liberals and leftists, the deepest worry generated by Reagan’s victory is the thought of the Supreme Court justices he is likely to appoint. That seems to me a misplaced worry, but it does reflect the enormous importance the …
In June 1980 the National Advisory Council on Economic Opportunity, under the chairmanship of Arthur I. Blaustein, submitted its Twelfth Report, Critical Choices for the Eighties, to President Carter (available from the Superintendent of Documents, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, …
The Kemp-Garcia Urban Jobs and Enterprise Zones bill is a legislative proposal bobbing in the wake of Kemp-Roth and the monetarist ideas that absorb the Reagan administration’s attention. It is of interest because it is the only conservative proposal even …
That science can serve as a “front” for sinister interests and that science can play the whore are shocking statements, doubly so in this time of the apotheosis of Albert Einstein. Yet citizens of a liberal democracy, in which many …
A fair race was what Lyndon Johnson pleaded for in his 1965 commencement address at Howard University that ushered in the era of affirmation action. You do not take a person, who for years has been hobbled by chains and …
In 1963, the young editor of Commentary, Norman Podhoretz, astonished his readers by appealing for “the wholesale merging of the races in the United States”—ending racism through “miscegenation.” His article, “My Negro Problem—and Ours,” seemed the more remarkable since, to …
The Reagan administration has a new approach to human rights which, while it won’t affect anyone in the U.S., may have some important ramifications for political prisoners around the world. The philosophy of the new approach was expressed recently by …
Supply-side economics, the official Reagan alternative to the scorned Keynesian prescription, amounts to a gamble on the proposition that lower taxes will stimulate enough new investment and effort to flood supermarkets and showrooms with cheap merchandise of steadily improving quality. …
As much as political parties need a myth, they need heroes whom they can look up to. Although democratic socialism takes pride in being rational, it is no exception. A leader with a human face lends personal warmth to the idea; …
Will President Reagan keep his promises? It depends on which ones you have in mind. Six days after the election an enthusiastic sup- porter of the victors, David Rockefeller, went to Argentina and exuberantly announced that at least one promise …
Beset by inflation and rising taxes, people look for simplistic formulas—”Proposition 13,” the Kemp-Roth 30-percent income-tax cut. Another such “magic” formula has been successfully peddled by business economists and quickly picked up by the media: supply-side economics (SSE). This cruel …
