Claude Eatherly, as too few Americans yet know, is the pilot who led the bombing mission which dropped the first atom bomb on mankind over Hiroshima, and the second three days later over Nagasaki. Through acts of repentance, from trying …
Harold Rosenberg is a brilliant critic whose most telling perceptions derive more easily from an organizing of ideas than from observation and description. He invented the name “Action Painting” for the currently fashionable American style that began after the war …
Anyone familiar with Professor Lowenthal’s Literature and the Image of Man would not be disposed to postpone for very long the satisfaction of reading a new book of his. The present one breaks a good deal of new ground, especially …
Mass warfare developed in the modern world even before mass production or mass literacy. One of the rights won by the French revolution, as it turned out, was the right of everyone to take part in war. The Napoleonic wars …
There are ways in which Patriotic Gore is a masterpiece. As an evocation of the literary and intellectual figures whose experience was shaped by the Civil War, the book is Plutarchian in its vividness. It displays to full advantage Wilson’s …
The continued influence of Marxism as an intellectual doctrine, as distinct from its role as the integrating ideology of Communist societies and parties, surprises many who regard its basic errors and irrelevancies to the analysis of contemporary society as obvious. …
The sudden emergence of new nations in Asia and Africa poses crucial problems for our age. No longer is it sufficient to applaud the demise of imperialism. We have also to discard any previous reliance on simple ideologies of progress. …
I first met C. Wright Mills in 1941 or 1942, when he was a young assistant professor of sociology at the University of Maryland (at that time, at least, a singularly dismal-looking provincial school whose president was one “Curly” Byrd, …
Since the cease-fire went into effect, our militants and sympathizers, their families and all those who support the PPA (Algerian People’s Party) have been the victims of kidnappings, torture and assassinations. The number of victims can be established at between …
Everyone recognized that the Cuba crisis opened a void of annihilation. But there was another void, in American political life, that few people remarked upon: the almost complete absence of any serious opposition or even restraining influence as the Administration …
Wednesday, the 24th October, was “United Nations Day” when every year one nation provides an artistic entertainment for the delegates. This year, it was the Russians’ turn; since morning the…
The fan-magazine treatment of the handful of men in the President’s kitchen cabinet who steered the nation through the crisis of the Cuban blockade has become embarrassing. Washington had already…
With the fatality of opportunism, the government is pursuing its prosecution of the Communist party under the McCarran Act of 1950. After 12 years of harassment, it is now within striking…
The sentiment of organized labor in the country is decidedly in favor of maintaining and encouraging the recognition of equality between colored and white workers…. .. to the union of the…
Editors: It is unfortunate that in summarizing the symposium of “The Young Radicals” [Winter, 1962], Mr. Lewis Coser could not resist the temptation to pass out grades. At least one of his “pupils” is inspired to question not only the …
