Summer 1979 - Dissent Magazine

Summer 1979

Comments and Opinions

The Middle East: What Next?

Leonard Fein

Political Reform–Social Retreat

Thomas Byrne Edsall

The Kennedys–and Their Enemies

Joseph Clark

The University on the Market

Dick Howard

Nukes, Oil, and Politics

A High Standard of Dying

David Bromwich

Ideology and the Politics of Energy

Peter Connolly

Nuclear Power and Corporate Priorities

Michael Harrington

Perspectives on Energy

David W. Orr

Nuclear Power: HOW Do We Know?

Irving Howe

Articles

From the Walls of Peking

Jin Sheng

Changes in Communist China

Simon Leys

Face and Mask

George Konrád

Thoughts on Tear Gas

Leon Wieseltier

Bourgeois Values, No Bourgeoisie? The Cultural Criticism of Christopher Lasch

Dennis H. Wrong

The French Communist Party: A Critical Anatomy

Cornelius Castoriadis

Eurocommunism and “The Russian Question”

Bogdan Denitch

Notebook

Metaphors of Life and Death

Murray Hausknecht

Movies

Memories of the Vietnam War

Nicolaus Mills

Reviews

Unfair to Marx

Henry Pachter

Why Do People Fail to Revolt?

Lewis Coser

Equality: Clarity and Confusion

Elaine Spitz

What Every Unionist Should Know

Emanuel Geltman

Letters

Letters

Editors

Beyond the Welfare State: IV

What Is Political Equality?

Philip Green and Robert A. Dahl