Editors: I thought the following little item might be of interest to you: The Danish Communist party, at its “extraordinary” 19th national congress, just concluded, adopted by a vote of 300-odd to 2 a resolution supporting Soviet action in Hungary. …
In a concluding section, the authors of Union Democracy (subtitled “The Internal Politics of the International Typographical Union”) observe, “For men of good will, there is much to learn in the history, institutions and arguments of American printers.” Such “men …
All men are equal, only some are more equal than others. By the same token, man’s situation is always extreme, only sometimes it is more extreme. If we ever thought that, although human beings were individually mortal, the species itself …
A close study of Mr. Gabriel Kolko’s article, “The American ‘Income Revolution’ ” in the Winter 1957 issue of DISSENT shows its scientific apparatus to be faulty; but I shall confine my criticism to the tables on pages 48-49, which …
In the folklore of American liberalism, the only figures more maligned than the Rotary president and the real estate salesman are the fullback and the first baseman. There are certain unreasonable reasons why this should be; but because no one …
A sound political system must facilitate the resolution of potential political conflicts or crises. Where such resolutions are inhibited the threatened political crisis may be compared to the conditions which may lead to an economic crisis if not corrected. Since …
My friend S, a renowned Austrian economist, banking expert and financial ambassador (if there is such a title), insists that the U.S. is dashing toward economic disaster through overproduction and inflation. “How much longer,” he demands, “can we go on …
Probably, we will never he able to determine the psychic havoc of the concentration camps and the atom bomb upon the unconscious mind of almost everyone alive in these years. for the first time in civilized history, perhaps for the …
In his article on “Subtopia,” William Newman has provided a vivid picture of the modern suburb. He has based his picture on Crestwood Heights, a remarkable and extremely important book which has thus far received much attention from sociologists but …
And what do the Masters find? How are their wives and children living in the utopia designed for them? Anyone who has lived in a suburb at one time or another can tell something of the life of a suburb—of …
Early in 1953, so a Washington fable goes, a blackboard in one of the government office buildings was discovered bearing the chalked observation: “The Republicans have been in long enough. It’s time for a change!” Over four years have passed …
The Capital District is an urban complex around Albany, New York. It includes Troy, a winter-beaten sort of city, with shops and factories, old enough to have a down-town section with much of the architectural charm of Louisburg Square in …
Speaking at the 16th Convention of the United Automobile Workers Union in Atlantic City, Monsignor Higgins, who has agreed to serve on the public watchdog committee created by the UAW to advertise its integrity to the world, declared that organization …
It has been said that every industry breeds its own type of man. True though this is of the auto industry, it would still be a mistake to infer a “composite auto worker” or a “typical auto worker.” Anyone writing …
In the South these days everybody’s world seems to be falling apart. People float about in uncertainties. Old landmarks are disappearing. The new ones do not bring assurance. There are calls to action; but will the proposals make things better …
