Hippies seem to fascinate the mass media somewhat less than they did a year or two ago. But they have not disappeared. Older Hippies, who refused to reconvert to straight society, have moved from Haight Ashbury to Big Sur or other …
Unrest and discontent characterize Negro student communities on campuses throughout this nation. The unrest manifests itself both internally and externally; the discontent stems from the conditions in which many of these students have been forced to live. For today, the …
An intellectual’s lot is not a happy one —at least if the setting is the White House, the President Lyndon B. Johnson, and the man of ideas Eric Goldman, on leave from Princeton to serve as Special Consultant to the President …
When James Forman, the militant black leader, seized the altar of the Riverside Church in order to read a demand for $500 million in reparations for American Negroes, it was clear enough that the First Amendment to the Constitution was …
This past May the Legal Defense Fund of the NAACP organized a series of discussions on the present phase of the civil rights struggle, which brought out in sharp focus the divergent philosophies in the Negro community.
Inevitably, the first question every American visitor asks Israelis is: “What about the occupied territories?” The answers, in that highly political and vocal country, cut across party lines. A young raftan (dairy worker) in a kibbutz in the Gall explains …
The Cold War is demonstrating greater longevity as an idea than as a political fact. Despite radical changes in the landscape of international politics, it remains a seductively comfortable concept that dominates both learned and popular discourse. The belief persists …
Though it is little more than a year since Soul on Ice was published, Eldridge Cleaver has been assimilated so rapidly by popularizers and professional reviewers that it is almost impossible to grasp the book in its original meaning. By emphasizing …
The root metaphor controlling Lewis Feuer’s vision of the student world is the primal band of brothers falling on the father with bared teeth and drawn knives. “Generational conflict” is the war between students, driven by primitive emotions, and a generation …
Communism, Djilas tells us, is not a religion. It is a movement concerned with ideology and power. Religion is something more basic, the perennial, stubborn faith in “an insubstantial and ageless justice” that keeps man from becoming a determinate link …
In California, where agriculture has an occupational disease rate 50 percent higher than any other industry, people have known for some time that farm workers are endangered by pesticides. Since 1954 the number of doctors’ reports involving pesticides and agricultural …
According to Marxism, the state is a tool of the ruling class. The state, writes Engels in his Origin of the Family, is usually an agency of the strongest class, which controls the economy and therefore wins political hegemony. In …
Not since the early days of 1946, before the Cold War became a reality, has the climate for controlling the nuclear arms race been so propitious. Both the United States and the Soviet Union talk (but do not yet act) as …
Twenty-seven young soldiers have been standing trial for “mutiny” allegedly committed in the Presidio, an army installation in San Francisco. The issues raised by this trial extend far beyond the immediate events. The Presidio, headquarters of the U.S. Sixth Army, …
Not only has President Nixon failed to tackle any major problem, he has not even defined one. As Max Frankel has written: By this stage in their administrations John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson were forging new designs for European …
