“Income Revolution” Editors: May I be permitted a comment on the exchange between Gabriel Kolko and Henry Pachter concerning the “Income Revolution” in America? [DISSENT, Summer 1957]. In general, I sympathize with Kolko’s views on this matter, but it seems …
Dissent An American Quarterly Magazine called DISSENT has published a special number about Africa. I dissent emphatically from almost all its judgments about the East and Central African territories, and I should be astonished if that were not the attitude …
The June decisions of the Supreme Court were major decisions; this is so even if those to whom the decisions applied directly, or who had initiated the actions that led through the federal courts, have already left the scene. The …
Having found rather poor enlightenment in the hour-by hour thrillers of Khrushchev’s coup d’etat, we must admit that we prefer historical novelists to Russia experts when it comes to relating who did whom in. But we have been fascinated by …
If I had to select items of twentieth-century evidence to be found one day by future historians and archaeologists, the gas chambers of Auschwitz and the protocols of the Moscow trials would be high on my list. Twentieth-century man has …
Probably, we will never he able to determine the psychic havoc of the concentration camps and the atom bomb upon the unconscious mind of almost everyone alive in these years. for the first time in civilized history, perhaps for the …
My friend S, a renowned Austrian economist, banking expert and financial ambassador (if there is such a title), insists that the U.S. is dashing toward economic disaster through overproduction and inflation. “How much longer,” he demands, “can we go on …
A sound political system must facilitate the resolution of potential political conflicts or crises. Where such resolutions are inhibited the threatened political crisis may be compared to the conditions which may lead to an economic crisis if not corrected. Since …
In the folklore of American liberalism, the only figures more maligned than the Rotary president and the real estate salesman are the fullback and the first baseman. There are certain unreasonable reasons why this should be; but because no one …
A close study of Mr. Gabriel Kolko’s article, “The American ‘Income Revolution’ ” in the Winter 1957 issue of DISSENT shows its scientific apparatus to be faulty; but I shall confine my criticism to the tables on pages 48-49, which …
All men are equal, only some are more equal than others. By the same token, man’s situation is always extreme, only sometimes it is more extreme. If we ever thought that, although human beings were individually mortal, the species itself …
In a concluding section, the authors of Union Democracy (subtitled “The Internal Politics of the International Typographical Union”) observe, “For men of good will, there is much to learn in the history, institutions and arguments of American printers.” Such “men …
Editors: I thought the following little item might be of interest to you: The Danish Communist party, at its “extraordinary” 19th national congress, just concluded, adopted by a vote of 300-odd to 2 a resolution supporting Soviet action in Hungary. …
So you have decided to leave the party. And you have written to tell me about it. What should I answer?
This issue of DISSENT is devoted to reports and interpretations—mostly reports—of the American scene. We have asked a number of writers to describe those aspects of our national life with which they are most familiar. What they wrote, we have …
