Dispatches From Kiev 
KIEV, 24 November 1964. (AUP) Peace descended again this morning on the campus of the University of Kiev following a night of all-out battle between students and the constituted authorities….
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Dispatches From Kiev
The Student State of Mind
Nearly everyone who has tried to account for the recent uprising on the Berkeley campus has drawn a picture of students struggling for identity in a vast, impersonal educational and research factory run by IBM cards, remote professors subsidized by …
The Alliance for Progress
We viewed the original Kennedy program for Latin America (Alliance for Progress) with a good deal of scepticism, but welcomed the proclaimed ideals behind it. For one thing, it gave recognition to the fact that money and grants in themselves, …
Does the Goldwater Movement Have a Future?
Seymour Lipset has argued, in Encounter, that the Goldwater movement has significance chiefly as the last desperate gasp of a dying social grouping, the final effort of traditional, Protestant, small town, inner-directed America before it succumbs to the assaults of …
Michael Walzer Responds
There is one major difficulty with Irving Howe’s statement. He fails to grasp the significance of the most important point he makes: that in Vietnam the national liberation movement was from the beginning led by the Communists. There, in a …
Vietnam: The Costs and Lessons of Defeat
March 20, 1965 These remarks, unavoidably, are being written about a month before they will be read. In the interim, changes are likely to occur in the Vietnam crisis. But the…
What is New About Selma?
The murder of a human being is never to be dismissed, especially of one like the Rev. Reeb. Yet that is not new, and probably it will happen again, many times, before the Negro liberation movement gains its complete victory. …
Notebook: Real News and Automated Villains
The counterattack has started. Purveyors of the conventional wisdom have suddenly launched an all-out assault on all those who over the last few years have called attention to the dark side of automation. Last January, within a few days of …
The Breakup of the Soviet Camp
The breakup of the Communist camp in the 1960s is an event of world historic importance which may well rank with such crucial turning points as the break between the Western and the Eastern Church, the Reformation, or the halting …
LeRoi Jones and the Tradition of the Fake
LeRoi Jones has already had more attention, more production of plays, more publication, more criticism and news comment than—at any less opportune moment—he could conceivably merit. But one aspect of his work and persona seems worth further analysis, hopefully as …
McComb vs. Harlem: A Matter of Identity
Over the ’64 Christmas holidays, 37 Negro high school students from McComb, Mississippi, were brought to New York by private funds raised by two COFO volunteers who had spent the summer teaching in the McComb “Freedom School.” The McComb kids …
The Apostate Muslim
The murder of Malcolm X cannot be reduced to an incident in an underworld conflict over material loot or social spoils. The sophisticated and intelligent ex-con who had been rebaptized Malcolm X by the Black Muslims, was publicly killed for …
The Ambiguous Legacy of Malcolm X
Now that he is dead, we must resist the temptation to idealize Malcolm X, to elevate charisma to greatness. His voice and words were cathartic, channeling into militant verbiage emotions that might otherwise have run a violently self-destructive course. But …
Dispatches From Kiev
Kiev, 24 November 1964 (AUP) Peace descended again this morning on the campus of the University of Kiev following a night of all-out battle between students and the constituted authorities. The events of the night reached a climax when masses …
