JULY 14, 1959 Now that it is all over it is easy to think back and realize that today’s events had been well prefigured, even before the Soviet launching of Sputnik I in October of 1957. I remember having read …
Let me go directly to the heart of the matter: at present, there is no more politics in France. No more politics, that is, if we mean by politics a reasonable calculation of the balance of those forces able to …
The general consensus that there has been a significant change in political mood, a shift toward liberalism, seems correct. It is, of course, extremely welcome, offering new possibilities for people of our persuasion; though we should take care to make …
The economy, like any organism, can absorb only so many minor injuries before the cumulative impact begins to undermine the economic health of the nation. Builtin stabilizers of unemployment compensation, social security, and the like may pull the economy out …
DOWN ON THE FARM, as Stanford University’s campus is sometimes called, an atmosphere of the leisurely past is carefully cultivated. The campus itself, sprawling across acres of precious…
FASctsM RETURNS in Europe; generals in France, bishops in Italy. So, a few days before May 25, the radical and anti-clerical weekly L’Espresso summarized the mood which characterized the…
I AM sE1TING down the following melancholy reflections not with any hope of a remedy, but because the matter is important and nobody else seems to be saying it. In many ways literature…
On March 6, 1957, the former colony of the Gold Coast became an independent nation within the British Commonwealth and took the name of Ghana, thereby recalling a West African empire of…
THE QUESTION, by Henri Alleg. Introduction by Jean-Paul Sartre. Translated from the French by John Calder. New York, George Braziller, Inc. 123 pp. $2.95. As one among many thousands, Henri…
AMERICA AS A CIVILIZATION, by Max Lerner. Simon & Schuster, 1036 pp. $10. This book is disappointingly bland and inconclusive, an exhaustive balance sheet of American assets and…
The story is told by Steward Meacham of the American Friends Service Committee of how a small shirt factory in Western Pennsylvania was struck by its women employees, of how the company…
…. its name has a mysterious and disquieting sound, and no one has ever really understood why Hippocrates chose it. Was it to portray the outline of certain cancers of the breast, whose…
Every dawn from the minarets of the Arab World comes the call to prayer: “Come to pray, come to your self-betterment.” Of late, the second part of the call, the appeal to self-betterment, is…
