Those who believe that the American economy can provide the means both to fight the war in Vietnam and wage massive attack on poverty at home must also believe that economic resources can be shifted from private to public purposes, …
“England,” said a European statesman, “offered a Europe of computers; Couve de Murville chose a Europe of sugar beets.” Beyond the political considerations that led General de Gaulle to veto England’s entry into the Common Market, there was, indeed, the choice …
Problems of “Legitimacy” Editor: Michael Walzer is in error when he says, “The `Call to resist illegitimate authority’ is . . . misnamed. It is a call to resist the immoral acts of legitimate authorities.” I am astonished that he …
To an audience of Parisians, in 1950, Bertrand Russell insisted that the philosophy of Hegel (which he had always said he could not understand) was responsible for German fascism: it was Hegel, not Gobineau, Haeckel, or Stewart Chamberlain who had …
What, yet more books on the concentration camps? Who wants to read them—to stir up painful memories, to unbury the dead? But are we so sure we have learned the lessons of the camps, that key phenomenon of the mid-twentieth …
We print below several excerpts from a statement by Dr. Kenneth B. Clark, professor of psychology at the City University of New York and president of the Metropolitan Applied Research Center. His statement was first delivered as an address to …
In the last year’s Arab-Israel crisis, most Of US on the democratic Left supported the Israeli cause. Our justification for this had little, if anything, to do with Zionist sentiment. The existence of a small democratic state (whose every action we …
The whim of history will press into a man’s hand a flag behind which he rallies people—only to discover that he does not understand them and that they don’t know why they follow him. This happened to George F. Kennan, …
Eugene McCarthy has demonstrated enormous political courage in challenging President Johnson directly in the primaries. He is not a man much given to the quixotic gesture. And since he has risked the ire of the supremely powerful in this country, …
This memoir is at once significant in content and slightly frivolous in effect. It was written by a Columbia professor after three years of hard labor at the Fudge Factory— as the State Department is known to refugees from the …
The State Department has denied Vladimir Dedijer admission to the United States and has thereby prevented him from taking up his duties as a visiting professor at MIT.
Americans are proud of the fact that the nation is becoming young. Nearly half the population is now under 25 years of age and about a third under 15. While this may mean crowded colleges or teen-age unemployment, the problems …
If some critics are right, Black Humor may be the only new or important development in American fiction since World War II. The important writers are John Barth, William Burroughs, and Thomas Pynchon—but also James Purdy, Joseph Heller, J. P. …
Surely, the time has come to end the Vietnam War. Leave aside, for the moment, the urgent moral considerations. Leave aside, also, the incontestable political reasons. The point has been reached where even motives of what might be called national …
The war in Vietnam has given rise to more agonies of conscience than any conflict in which America has participated during this century. The reason for this moral anguish is not hard to find. In the First and Second World Wars …
