Although few if any men in the United States remain entirely untouched by the women’s movement, to most men what is happening seems to be “out there,” having little direct effect on their own lives. The movement is, to them, …
Although schisms are nothing new to Western Marxism, the past decade or so has witnessed one doctrinal parting of the ways that is without precedent in the annals of this troubled theory. I refer to the ever-widening gulf between the …
My minimal sense of kinship with the historical profession expands substantially whenever it is glibly attacked by journalists. America Revised provokes unprecedented solidarity with teachers of history at all levels. This lapse from detachment, frankly confessed, has advantages for a …
A fascinating thesis that Daniel DeLeon’s immersion in the novels of Eugene Sue—many of which he translated into English—had left him deeply influenced by The Wandering Jew, a Sue novel he did translate, is explored in Glen Seretan’s informed book …
In the first pages of the first volume of his memoirs, Henry Kissinger remarks with some bitterness about the way he was treated by McGeorge Bundy, his dean at Harvard and a predecessor as National Security Adviser to the President. …
Apocalypse Now is a piece of visionary propaganda about the Vietnamese war— oppressively ugly for most of its length, with an emotional sordidness that teases and at last wears down and baffles the audience—a confidently brutal film, grating in its …
The United States is clearly in the midst of a “conservative revival.” As usual in such cases of “mood shift,” the revival is spearheaded by intellectuals—particularly those who cluster around the Committee on the Present Danger and Public Interest. Symptoms …
I know that I have the very uncomfortable habit of saying not what is advantageous at a given moment, but whatever I believe to be the truth. I never concealed what I think of literary servility, toadyism and coat changing. …
Students aren’t what they used to be. In the Good Old Days everyone learned. At least everyone learned to read. Immigrant children from Europe at the turn of the century worked hard at school and succeeded. Why can’t kids today …
The Portuguese revolution came at an inopportune moment for the superpowers. The height of the crisis in Portugal was sandwiched between the summits at Vladivostok (November 24, 1974) and at Helsinki (August 1, 1975), and while both East and West …
Iran’s presidential election of January 25, 1980, which took place almost a year after the fall of the Shah in February 1979, and the insurrection in Tabriz that preceded the election by a few weeks may well come to be …
James T. Farrell (1904-1979) is usually hailed as the author of Studs Lonigan, a book he survived by 45 years and roughly as many books. Yet if there is anything James Farrell was not, it was a one-book author. Studs …
He is a small man, neatly turned out, compact, looking maybe like the chap who runs your stationary store, reminding me improbably of William Faulkner, quiet, dignified, never raising his voice. He speaks before some two dozen people at a …
There is overwhelming evidence that political power is a class phenomenon in America. From the beginning of the Republic, federal officeholders and most state officials have been drawn from the professional upper-middle-income class of white, Anglo-Saxon males.’ While the civil-rights …
The following article is excerpted from Marxism: For and Against, by Robert L. Heilbroner, © 1980 by Robert L. Heilbroner, to be published by W. W. Norton & Co. late in February. Marx’s view of capitalism is essentially historic, always …
