Watching the proceedings of the U.N. Security Council during the August crisis, one could not fail to be impressed by the young representative of Czechoslovakia, Ian Musik, who calmly and without any rhetoric read the documents which refuted the Soviet …
The following conversation was taped toward the end of August, 1968. In addition to BAYARD RUSTIN, the well-known civil rights leader and Executive Secretary of the A. Philip Randolph Institute, the participants included IRVING HOWE, editor of Dissent; Tom KAHN, …
The new interest in Kropotkin is part of the worldwide revival of Anarchist action and thought, in both “private enterprise” and socialist countries. So Bakunin, Kropotkin, and the other Anarchists were right after all: the real enemies have proved to …
Daniel was repeating first grade in a run-down Chicago school — big, dingy, half-lit rooms and old-fashioned screw-down desks. I was the fourth teacher he had had that fall, and before the year was over he would have many more. …
On Socialism and the Jews Editor: George Lichtheim is to be commended for bringing to the attention of your readers certain aspects of the problem of socialism and anti-Semitism (“Socialism and the Jews,” DISSENT, July—August 1968). The more so since …
A fortnight before George C. Wallace visited Fort Wayne, Indiana, for a rally in his pursuit of the Presidency, there was looting in the city’s Negro areas. Several hundred youths roamed the streets, breaking the windows of white-owned stores and throwing …
I r was said that 10 days shook the world in 1917 and two days shook the world in 1968. In these two days, the people of Czechoslovakia have shown that, given the unity, they are able to assert their …
Our readers will have noticed that my comment in the last issue concerning Czechoslovakia was already dated by the time the issue came out. My apprehensions about Russian intervention were, alas, not dated. To a limited extent, the Russians have …
Czeslaw Milosz belongs to the small group of contemporary writers who have “looked into the abyss” and survived the experience, scarred but without having lost their integrity as writers and human beings. His book The Captive Mind established him some …
In last year’s U.S. pavillion at the Montreal World’s Fair I noticed a sign reading: Hall of the Great Society —Emergency Exit. Let’s take that exit right now! After the obscene happening at Chicago that went by the name of Democratic …
Pierre Mendes-France was beaten at Grenoble by the former Gaullist minister Jean-Marcel Jeanneney. Out of an electorate of about 40,000, Jeanneney’s plurality was 130. In beginning with such an example, I do not wish to pretend that all the Gaullist …
The question, Who speaks for the Negro? invites no satisfactory answer in these rhetoric-drenched times. Or, rather, it invites so many answers that none of them can be satisfactory. No large city is without its complement of lusty-lunged fellows who …
Politics in France has always been conducted as a branch of the drama: that was one reason Marx found it so rich a subject for historical narrative. Writing about the French Revolution, he remarked upon the regularity with which the …
The State University Of New York at Stony Brook lies on a lightly wooded rise some five miles south of Smithtown Bay on Long Island and roughly 60 miles east of New York City. Stony Brook has been described as the showplace of the …
A federal district court in Boston has found Dr. Benjamin Spock and three of his codefendants guilty of conspiring to “hinder and interfere … with the administration” of the Selective Service Act, and to “counsel, aid and abet … the registrants …
