Toward Calcutta—late July: A city turbulent, jittery, easily upset. It is twenty years since my last visit, yet the memory of this city is a vivid one. Calcutta is the home of Indian terrorist nationalism, its people quick and volatile, …
Sartre’s New View of Existentialism The first volume of Sartre’s newly published Critique of Dialectical Reason contains two sections, and these, in the author’s own phrase, are “unequal in importance and ambition.” The first, entitled Questions of Method, written in …
All the benefits mankind may some day gain from atomic energy and space travel cannot hide the fact that the main reason science has recently been catapulted into importance is its ability to advance the technology of warfare. From a …
To “preserve free government” through war and peace alike, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts has decided to go underground. Its legislators have determined to become pioneers of the nuclear age by approving construction of America’s first emergency underground shelter for state …
History has until now been kind to the school of political theorists who are known, to themselves as well as to others, as the “realists.” The ineptitude, Sunday. school moralism, and easy optimism of unskilled diplomats and politicians has served …
A new theory for the international arms race has been invented in the United States. It bears the equivocal tag “arms control.” One might think, from the ordinary meaning of the words, arms control, that this is some form of …
The auto workers are facing serious trouble these days The trouble was dramatized by an incident reported in the Detroit News (Feb. 16): The UAW’s 24-year tenure as spokesman for 550,000 Detroit-area auto workers was challenged today. Ouster of the …
The 1960-61 recession has displayed two contradictory characteristics: it has been the mildest postwar recession when measured in terms of the cutbacks in output, capital investments and inventories, but the worst in terms of unemployment and business failures. The paradox …
Latest, easiest and cheapest, since it is the least hazardous, intellectual fashion is to dissent against unions. From Victor Riesel to the upper reaches of the Ford Foundation, an orchestrated carping plucks on the anti-intellectualism of the unions, their bureaucratic …
You ask me about Messali Hadj and the MNA. This is an extremely complicated story and I hesitate to take any categoric position. It would seem that the French government recently thought of using the MNA and Messali as a …
The French Left has finally returned to political action. On October 27, 1960, summoned by the National Union of French Students and joined by the independent unions—Force Ouvriere, the French Confederation of Christian Workers and the autonomous teachers unions 20,000 …
Editors: There are now two political prisoners behind bars in New Hampshire. On June 28, Hugo De Gregory was jailed for refusing to answer questions in New Hampshire’s “subversive investigation.” His imprisonment climaxes six years of persecution by N. H. …
THE RECENT FAILURE to abolish the death penalty in California by initiative petition reveals something about liberal politics today. In February 1960, there seemed to be an excellent chance of repealing the state’s capital punishment law. Governor Edmund Brown had …
