As of late June the Czechoslovak democratic revolution has managed to survive the first attempts at its liquidation. It has become clear that the revolutionary process cannot be brought down by Soviet military threats. The Dubcek leadership has not yielded …
Civil Disobedience Editor: The recent discussion of “Civil Disobedience and Resistance” in DISSENT magazine was provocative and helpful. I think however that there was a sense of the academic about the discussion and a tendency to define civil disobedience in …
The following remarks have been occasioned by a recent revival of interest in the topic of socialist anti-Semitism. Or, to put the matter in a different context, by a rereading of scholarly studies dealing with the role assigned in socialist …
HERBERT MARCUSE’S One Dimensional Man appeared four years ago. Since then, it has been widely, and on the whole, favorably reviewed, read, and discussed. Accepted by many as the long-awaited work that “tells it like it is,” Marcuse’s essay has …
The following statement was prepared before President Johnson’s announcement that he would institute an incomplete ban on the bombing of North Vietnam. Our hope is that events in the next few months—a cease-fire, negotiations toward peace— will render this statement …
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Some men suffer the fate of becoming the symbols of generations which misunderstand them. “Che” Guevara is a case in point. Suddenly, after his death he has become a folk hero of some young radicals in America and elsewhere. Guevara …
In times less accustomed to disappointment than our own, the recent events in Czechoslovakia would be cause for jubilation and toasts to the progress of freedom. As it is, they are cause for jubilation and toasts but at the same time …
During this period of escalating madness in American life, one of the few institutions from which the voice of sanity has clearly sounded has been the university. Recovering from the apathy of the 50’s, the university has become a center …
The name of John F. Kennedy has been attached to a protracted session of bargaining for mutual tariff reductions, conducted in Geneva by the professional negotiators of the GATT countries (the adherents to the “General Agreement on Tariff and Trade” …
Dear George: I want to set the record straight. Regardless of any differences of opinion we may have, I am obliged to call to your attention the utter falsity of certain defamatory statements made by you at the AFL-CIO Convention …
For all of three days there was hope. Lyndon Johnson announced he would not run again; a bombing pause, of sorts, had been declared for North Vietnam; Hanoi’s response indicated that negotiations might at last begin to end the war. …
Much of the federal budget presented to Congress last January is already outdated. Expenditures for defense will considerably exceed the amount originally provided, while budgeted civilian outlays, as well as appropriation requests to support future expansion of civilian programs, will …
Where do the guerillas come from? From which social strata, which environment? The answer can save us from many errors, for it eliminates almost the whole propaganda literature on guerrillas, both pro and con. Most of the leaders, organizers, and …
I should like to know what qualifications would be required for me to set up one or more brothels in or near Bangkok (or any major Thailand city) to serve our men who are now or will be in that area.
