One of the most celebrated passages in the writings of Mark Twain describes the episode where Huckleberry Finn, in helping the runaway slave Jim to freedom, is suddenly seized with guilt and almost demoralized by the enormity of his behavior. …
With this issue DISSENT opens up a discussion of the “new leftism,” in which, as always in our pages, a wide range of opinion will be welcome and each person will speak for himself. One view is expressed below by …
For some time after Students for a Democratic Society in 1962 coined the term “participatory democracy,” it was received with more humor than respect by civil rights workers in the South. The concept has become important this past winter, for …
The Addict in the Street edited and with an introduction by Jeremy Larner from tape recordings collected by Ralph Tefferteller Grove Press, 288 pp., $5.50 Reading this book is a highly disturbing experience—for it compels us to confront (through the …
Letters from Mississippi by Elizabeth Sutherland McGraw-Hill, 232 pp., $4.95 This book consists of letters written by Civil Rights volunteers, mostly students, who went to Mississippi during the summer and wrote home. Avoiding almost all the pitfalls and temptations that …
Mr. Coser’s burial of the world Communist movement was a bit premature, thanks in part to recent American tactics in Vietnam which gave the discordant Communist powers no alternative save to rally round the slogans of proletarian solidarity a little …
Lewis Coser’s article provides an analysis of the past and a projection into the future. It breaks ground and offers stimulating new perspectives on the latter topic; it offers less that is novel in its analytical exposition of the former. …
What is going on in the AFL-CIO camp at the moment, performed unconsciously as if Art Buchwald had written the scenario in the manner of his now famous column on what would have happened had Goldwater been elected president, proves …
Costs of college education are rising as rapidly as educational expectations. Yet our search for ways to finance higher education in no way matches the growing determination that all who desire a higher education shall have one. As an instance …
In much of East and Central Africa any marked increase in the standard of living requires radical social change. Colonial governments were concerned for the most part with administration rather than economic development and were reluctant to attempt such changes. …
364 MAY, 1965 Letters from India, as a rule, are written by “outsiders” trying to appear as “insiders.” A Westerner visits India for six weeks, is touched and appalled by the sights, sounds,…
One of the most celebrated passages in the writings of Mark Twain describes the episode where Huckleberry Finn, in helping the runaway slave Jim to freedom, is suddenly seized with guilt and almost demoralized by the enormity of his behavior. …
Dear Sartre: May I take public issue with you for the claims you make in What is Literature? You claim literary importance, even preeminence, for socially committed, or “responsible” writing; you claim also that anyone who happens to be unprejudiced …
For some time after Students for a Democratic Society in 1962 coined the term “participatory democracy,” it was received with more humor than respect by civil rights workers in the South. The…
With this issue DISSENT opens up a discussion of the “new leftism,” in which, as always in our pages, a wide range of opinion will be welcome and each person will speak for himself. One view…
