These short pieces were chosen because their subject matter is fit concern for a President. One is of course not throwing any disqualified devil’s wishes into the ring for oneself, no, no, these are the Presidential papers of a court …
In the Spring of 1962 a serious attempt was made to create a Neo-Fabian Society in New York City. Spearheaded by Robert B. Silvers, an editor at Harrier‘s, William Phillips, co-editor of Partisan Review, Stanley Plastrik, an editor of DISSENT, …
On March 20, 1963 the Greenwood, Mississippi Commonwealth carried side-by-side two editorials which graphically illustrate the inability of Southern whites to understand what is happening to their “way of life.” One editorial, entitled “A History Lesson,” chided Latin American oligarchs …
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 …
