Before World War II arms control agreements never involved national or international inspection systems; the great powers relied upon their own intelligence agencies to detect violations. That old method has a certain appeal: spies instead of inspectors. And Allen Dulles …
This summer, with my family on a camping trip, I passed briefly through Jackson, Mississippi. I don’t want to write my impressions of that unhappy town, but to limit myself to telling of our meeting with Charles Butts, the young …
The author of this book has a case to make. He argues that the “Palmer raids” and the Red scare of 1919-20 were not an aberration due to World War I and the Russian revolution. Rather, these events stimulated the …
Among all the spurious “sciences” that have grown up around the notion that to abstract one’s propositions from reality is to be truly “scientific,” most pernicious has been the new “science” of strategy. Armed by their supposed knowledge of game …
The people of the emerging nations, as Stanley Diamond has rightly said (“Modern Africa: the Pains of Independence,” DISSENT, Spring 1963), need our “humane insight, fraternal sympathy, and concrete historical perceptions.” They also have a right to constructive criticism. To …
Liberals like to regard the Alliance for Progress as a bold, even revolutionary conception. In practice, as in Honduras, it has become something very different, so different that we may speak of two Alliances for Progress. The first envisions the …
The siege against the market system, or more accurately, against its sustaining folklore, grows stronger, “end of ideology” or not. With the appearance of David BazeIon’s The Paper Economy (Random House; $6.95), it undergoes an assault a notch more devastating …
James Baldwin first came to the notice of the American literary public not through his own fiction but as author of an impassioned criticism of the conventional Negro novel. In 1949 he published in Partisan Review an essay called “Everybody’s …
The debate sparked by Hannah Arendt’s Eichmann in Jerusalem is almost as disturbing as the book itself. A good many qualified reviewers in various journals have attacked not only Miss Arendt’s views but the scholarship on which her conclusions are …
In the midst of the great organizing drive of the CIO, which was to culminate in the solid establishment of industrial unionism in the United States, John L. Lewis came to Detroit to address a mass meeting. Some ten thousand …
The success of the March on Washington is now a part of American history. But its ramifying effects on the civil rights revolution will be long in unfolding. Certainly the moral impact of the March was incalculable. As one of …
New York’s public school teachers, by a show of militancy, unity and determination, scored a striking victory in early September. More, their victory pushed open new doors through which the declining labor movement could easily march if its leadership would …
Pursue a disastrous policy long enough, and the outcome is inevitable. Politics is a ruthless discipline; error and stupidity exact a cruel price. Supporting the authoritarian Diem in the name of anti-Communism, the U.S. helped spawn the odious Nhus, which …
Khrushchev is no less a Russian Communist today than yesterday, nor is Mao Tse-tung more of a Chinese Stalinist than he was the day before. The thaw did not, so to speak, produce the recent violence of conflict between the …
Within five years, the United States will have hardened into a vast thermonuclear missile base. While an underformed citizenry goes about its usual business, the military establishment has developed, and plans to continue developing, a strategic atomic force, the dimensions …
