I have been wondering recently why it was that the full barbarism of the University of Mississippi crisis did not strike me until almost three months after Meredith had been enrolled. I bought a newspaper one afternoon in San Francisco …
No one has been more aware and less surprised by the white liberal’s retreat than the Negro intelligentsia engaged in the civil rights struggle. They have been watching with increasing skepticism the liberal’s distress with the fact of integration, a …
An atrocity is an atrocity, is an atrocity. No matter whether it is committed by Russians, Nazis, Frenchmen or Americans. Unless this is kept firmly in mind one succumbs to the fallacy of believing that when we, the children of …
The Negro revolution may be blocked here and diverted there, but it cannot be stopped. It surges up from the very depths of our social life, from people who for decades had been cowed into silence or drugged into apathy. …
Julian Mayfield’s letter rebutting Lewis Coser’s assessment of his piece in the “Young Radicals” symposium was printed without comment, I suppose, on grounds that it damns itself. It does….
Not the least of the consequences of fidelismo has been its effect upon a section of American radical youth. At a meeting organized by Dissent and held in New York City on February 22, an instructive, if ironic, illustration of …
The Image: Or What Happened to the American Dream by Daniel J. Boorstin Atheneum, 1962, 315 pp., $5.00 In his study of English poetry and its resources, F. W. Bateson quips about “the non-ruling classes who are more planned against …
The Bureaucratic Revolution by Max Shachtman Donald Press, 360 pp., $2.95 During the 1940s and 1950s the author of this book was the leader of a tiny radical organization, the Independent Socialist League. Originally a fracture from the American Trotskyist …
88 Men and 2 Women by Clinton T. Duffy and Al Hirshberg Doubleday, 1962. 88 Men and 2 Women is a journalistic chronicle of the execution chambers of the sovereign state of California. Its author—a jailer who has won wide …
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Alexander Solzhenitsyn, translated by Ralph Parker Dutton, 160 pp., $3.95 One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Alexander Solzhenitsyn, translated by Max Hayward and Ronald Hingley Praeger, 210 pp., …
I take issue with Lewis Coser on the following major grounds: 1) He discusses the political evolution of the developing countries in isolation from their ties, past and present, with the West. Yet, their prospects cannot be assayed without examining …
Colonialism in its classic form is dead, but the spirit lingers on in the policies and presuppositions of the ex-colonial powers, and infects, also, the American consciousness. Lupine journalists, catching the scent of our malaise, and pets of the liberal-conservative …
In Australia no less than in other Western nations, radicalism took a beating from the apathy of the fifties. The rot set in after the fall of Prime Minister Chifley’s Labor Government in 1949. It was stayed briefly by the …
The threat of cybernetics to jobs has been apparent for some time; not only factory-workers and clerks are affected, but also the “middle managers” (cf. Irving Howe’s “Cybernation: the Trauma that Awaits Us,” Dissent, Spring, 1962). Computers do indeed make …
Anthony Crosland is the ablest and most persuasive spokesman of the British Labor party’s “New Right,” notably that section of it which is also pro-European and skeptical of what Mr. Gaitskell on a recent occasion described as “an independent foreign …
