Several years ago I began a study of modernity. I meant to explore both the history of ideas—such ideas as “modern times,” “modern society,” “the modern predicament,” and so on—and the human realities that these ideas were meant to grasp. …
Although the winds of compulsory sterilization are blowing over many parts of the country, in Bihar State this extreme measure has been advised against for the present. The major reason is that medical facilities in the rural areas of Bihar are …
A case might be made that the graffiti in public bathrooms offer as valid a perception of vox populi as the more conventional materials used in public-opinion research. Consider the message scribbled in a rest room on one campus of …
After Vietnam and Watergate, years of racial conflict, sad stories of apathy, party disintegration, the breakup of traditional alliances, media domination, the United States has had its most conventional, its most “normal” election since 1960, perhaps since 1944. I confess …
Since World War II there has been no significant change in the employment probabilities of both blacks and whites. In both good times and bad, black unemployment rates are approximately twice as high as those of whites. This was true …
The case of Republica [the Portuguese socialist paper taken over by the Communists and MFA] is not simply a revelation of the internal conflicts affecting the destiny of the Portuguese revolution. It is also a revelation of our own capacity …
The last 40 years have witnessed the collapse of most of the great politico-social myths bequeathed to us by the 19th century. As a result, certain kinds of people who had relied on these myths as a compass find themselves …
What the Lord did on the eighth day the Bible does not state; it is permitted to speculate that He continued to rest and, for all that the last million years’ record shows, never returned to the hectic working spree …
The failures of the welfare state in the sixties have served as stimulus for, and rationale of, the rise of neoconservative thought in the seventies. The neoconservative ideologues base themselves on what they regard as the data of the sixties, …
About the “ultimate” meaning of Watergate we cannot be certain. Should we regard it as a transient stain on the Republic which time will blur, as it has blurred so many others? Or does it constitute a new kind of …
Ever since 1968, Cesar Chavez’s United Farm Workers have had two principal opponents: the growers who control California’s $5 billionper-year agricultural industry and the Nixon administration, which, through Department of Defense purchases of nonunion grapes and lettuce and National Labor …
Editor: David Spitz has clearly researched B. F. Skinner, if making reference to some of his writings is a reflection of that, but it is equally clear that he has simply missed Skinner’s point all along the way. Of those …
Celebrated as the cradle of civilization, the source of civility, change, and progress, the city has also been damned as the locus of evil, and for many Sodom and Gomorrah are still the archetypal urban communities. These themes run together …
Feinberg: I believe it would simplify the problem to state that the KGB orders experts to designate such and such a political prisoner a mental case. Nadjarov: Of course. Besides, it is better not to touch on politics. Each of us …
