During this period of escalating madness in American life, one of the few institutions from which the voice of sanity has clearly sounded has been the university. Recovering from the apathy of the 50’s, the university has become a center …
Let me supplement the discussion begun in the July-August issue of DISSENT concerning the Arab-Israeli war. I shall deal with two topics: a certain style of criticism that has appeared against Israel, and the difficulties of rapprochement. On the whole, …
To novelists, social scientists seem a subversive class. It is not merely that the latter have increasingly invaded the hitherto settled territory of the novelist—the individual’s complex ties with his society. Far worse. In recent years they have sought to …
