Spring 2025

The main question Mr. Rogow* sets out to answer is whether the British Labor Party, when in power, was able to influence significantly the structure, psychology, and objectives of British…

In no sense do these notes pretend to the blessed adjective “definitive.” They are based on impressions derived from observations, conversations, interviews, meetings, and a little reading…

Though written independently of each other, and obviously not intended as a debate between the authors, the two articles that follow may be said to represent opposing views of the Egyptian, or…

Every dawn from the minarets of the Arab World comes the call to prayer: “Come to pray, come to your self-betterment.” Of late, the second part of the call, the appeal to self-betterment, is…

…. its name has a mysterious and disquieting sound, and no one has ever really understood why Hippocrates chose it. Was it to portray the outline of certain cancers of the breast, whose…

The story is told by Steward Meacham of the American Friends Service Committee of how a small shirt factory in Western Pennsylvania was struck by its women employees, of how the company…

AMERICA AS A CIVILIZATION, by Max Lerner. Simon & Schuster, 1036 pp. $10. This book is disappointingly bland and inconclusive, an exhaustive balance sheet of American assets and…

THE QUESTION, by Henri Alleg. Introduction by Jean-Paul Sartre. Translated from the French by John Calder. New York, George Braziller, Inc. 123 pp. $2.95. As one among many thousands, Henri…

On March 6, 1957, the former colony of the Gold Coast became an independent nation within the British Commonwealth and took the name of Ghana, thereby recalling a West African empire of…

I AM sE1TING down the following melancholy reflections not with any hope of a remedy, but because the matter is important and nobody else seems to be saying it. In many ways literature…

For months, it is now clear, there had been a conspiracy to overthrow the French republic. Organized by extreme rightists and semi-fascists in France and Algeria, this conspiracy soon entangled…

FASctsM RETURNS in Europe; generals in France, bishops in Italy. So, a few days before May 25, the radical and anti-clerical weekly L’Espresso summarized the mood which characterized the…

THE REVOLUTIONARY THEORIES OF Louis AUGUSTE BLANQUI, by Allan B. Spitzer. Columbia Univ. Press, 1957. This is a painstaking, if somewhat pedestrian, study of the theories of the “first professional revolutionary” of Europe. Blanqui spent forty of his seventy-six years …

The celebrated episode of the trip of the `Bolshevik leaders” across Germany within a “sealed train” has caused as much ink to run as the accusation of being in the pay of the Kaiser, examined below. But the episode is …

After a decade of injustice, the Attorney General of the United States casually removed the Independent Socialist League from his List of Subversive Organizations a month or so ago. In announcing the decision, no reference was made to the merits …