“Poem for Adults” is one of the most remarkable, documents of our time; nothing that has yet appeared in print so fully reveals the despair felt by intellectuals and writers at having to live in the prison-house of totalitarianism.
Because of the immediacy and urgency of the Algerian crisis and the repressive movement it has called forth we are advancing publication of the exclusive interview given to DISSENT by Messali Hadj, Algerian nationalist leader. This was to have appeared in the Summer issue of …
One reads these days many cries of despair, rumblings of gloom, dark hints of the inadequacy of Reason (and reasoners), of the hopelessness of progress. At the best, one expects invocations of Orwell and Tocqueville, at the worst, of Burke …
Among the few successes of DISSENT we count the fact that we have been able in some minor way to establish a link between radicals of an older generation and younger men and women who are untouched and even bored by the rhetoric of the thirties, yet repelled and frightened by the realities of the fifties.
IN HIS TIME the “psychologist” Coue may have seemed a mere passing fad, yet he struck deep roots in America. His main therapeutic technique—the repetition of the sentence, Day by Day, In Every Way, I am Getting Better and Better—summoned …
INDUSTRIAL SOCIETY, by Georges Friedmann. (Edited and with an introduction by Harold L. Sheppard.) Free Press, Glencoe, Illinois, 1955. 436 pp., $6.00. No Marx-ward inclination is required to see that work is central to man’s fate in modern industrial society. …
Reading recent interpretations of the Twentieth Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, one is inclined to feel that they reveal far less about the character of the changes in Russian politics and society than about the moods …
The strikes that have shaken the entire Soviet concentrationary system during the past few years are a new phenomenon, and yet, in certain respects, they recall the phase of the development of the camps that came to an end in …
THE EXURBANITES, by A. C. Spectorsky. Lippincott. $3.95. I looked up recently after a sojourn abroad to find that a new word had sneaked into the language while my back was turned, like the 8:55 crawling into the station at …
I Described by Eisenhower economists as a sideways movement, the downward turn in 1954 was overcome in a relatively quick reaction. Late in the year the major indices began to move up again and by July 1955 it was evident …
The following comment by the Italian writer was made in response to a critical article written about his work in a French magazine. Mr. Silone has been kind enough to send it to DISSENT for American publication. How can a writer discuss decently …
What the Lord did on the eighth day the Bible does not state; it is permitted to speculate that He continued to rest and, for all that the last million years’ record shows, never returned to the hectic working spree …
We are now witnessing one of our periodic “crises” in social control. Though official statistics show a sharp increase in the crime rate, particularly among adolescents, we will never know the extent to which this crisis is being fabricated. Since …
(The following article is part of a much longer chapter from a forthcoming book on “The Political Novel,” to be published by Horizon Press in 1956. It does not propose a full analysis of Silone’s writings, but tries to present him in a certain …
About 50,000 Americans are dope addicts; a quarter of a million children between 7 and 17 are arraigned in juvenile courts each year, and 1,-750,000 serious crimes are committed by adults; 18 per cent of the draftees rejected by the …
