In that confusing variety of movements and moods lumped together as “the new radicalism,” no one is more visible than Susan Sontag. This is in part a tribute to her own variety, for unlike many others, she is not easily …
One of the more tantalizing statistics of the decade is this: for a mere $11 billion we could raise every poor American above the poverty line as poverty is currently and officially defined—an income below $3,130 for a family of …
In his article “Moral Judgment in Time of War” (DISSENT, May-June 1967) Michael Walzer has stated the case well for the need of a moral judgment applicable within the context of war. I think, though, that his argument is incomplete …
Quoting an interview with the veteran socialist, Akram Hourani, Kamel Abu Jaber reports that when asked to whom he felt closer—a British socialist or a Saudi Arabian Sheikh, Hourani replied, “the Saudi Arabian Sheikh without any question.” Events of the …
Within this issue we print some comments on the riots by Bayard Rustin, comments with which I agree. We shall also have before long the inevitable, and hopefully useful, studies by the sociologists. While awaiting their reports, however, we need …
Right now John Lewis is a homeless man. Chairman of SNCC during its most active and heroic period, one of the first Freedom Riders, arrested innumerable times in the Deep South, and a vividly radical speaker at the 1963 March …
At one point, shortly before war broke out in the Mideast, it seemed that the very survival of Israel was at stake. To say this was not merely an emotional reaction, though emotion was certainly and legitimately involved. Nasser had …
This is a work of humane scholarship, in a field of overwhelming importance, which it would be hard to overpraise. Professor Green has obviously read virtually the whole literature of this field, at least in English, and his bibliography alone …
The President’s decision to escalate the Vietnam War destroys whatever small chance there was for negotiations in the near future and plunges the United States into a major crisis. Among the growing number of Americans who see this war as …
June 12, 1967 I have talked to a number of citizens of Jewish descent —some of whom have relatives in Israel or have lived there—who, like me, have been troubled by the ruthless actions of the Tel Aviv government in …
Portugal, the poor cousin of the Western alliance, has over 120,000 troops fighting four wars against nationalist rebels in its African possessions—Angola, Mozambique, Cabinada, and Guinea—at an annual cost of over $132 million. Nearly half the troops are in Mozambique …
For any rational man seriously committed to the values of an authentic liberalism or liberal socialism, the present mood must be one of despair, and even agony. For the processes of American democracy have proved inadequate to the task of …
“Government in these days is a consequence solely of military power”: so observed the great Islamic philosopher, al-Ghazali, when describing Moslem nations in 1100. His aphorism applies only too well in many of the developing countries of our time. Plus …
For the past twenty years or so, the study of literature has been dominated by formal analysis. We have been told to examine carefully the structure, imagery, and tone of a literary work, so that we can see the novel …
It is most fascinating that Saul Alinsky’s approach to community organizing is commonly regarded as a radical one and that a number of people with progressive and radical leanings are so strongly attracted to it. However, the Alinsky model neither …
