Winter 1988 - Dissent Magazine

Winter 1988

Comments and Opinions

America’s Bitter Harvest

Irving Howe

Khrushchev and Gorbachev: A Contrast

Agnès Heller and Ferenc Fehèr

British Labour After Defeat

Michael Rustin

The Neocons & Contragate

Bernard Rosenberg

Reports from Abroad

Cultural Revival in the Soviet Union: A Report From Moscow

Roy Medvedev

Notebook

A Letter From South Africa

Hermann Giliomee

The Butcher’s Company

Mitchell Cohen

Second Thoughts/Stuffed Heads

Jim Sleeper

The Road to Moscow

Patricia Cayo Sexton

The Democratic Promise

Of Socialists, Liberals & Others

Irving Howe

Dilemmas for the Democrats: What Next in the Eighties?

Harold Meyerson

The First Steps—and a Few Beyond

Michael Harrington

American Social Policy and the Ghetto Underclass

William Julius Wilson

The End of Laissez-Faire—Again, and Other Illusions of the Reagan Years

Robert Kuttner

New Prospects for Arms Control

Hendrik Hertzberg

Liberal Politics, Conservative Sentiment

Peter Steinfels

A Workable Family: Childcare, Income Supports, Jobs

Barbara R. Bergmann

The Fed in Fact and Fiction: To Whom Is It Responsible?

Robert Lekachman

Toward Adequate Health Care: Why We Need National Health Insurance

Rashi Fein

Toward a Postindustrial Politics

David Osborne

In Memoriam

Bayard Rustin

Charles Bloomstein