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 …
Someone, clearly not a press photographer, snapped my picture as I entered the Chateau Gardens on Houston Street and Second Avenue in New York’s lower East Side. If I shuddered that Saturday morning, it was not entirely due to the …
As an explanation of the higher circles in American life, The Power Elite* is enormously valuable. One can scarcely overpraise C. Wright Mills for this latest installment in a series that, if continued, may assume almost Balzacian proportions. Not that he …
Morris Raphael Cohen, an extraordinarily gifted teacher, was best known as a critic of other philosophers. People would sometimes grumble about his “negativism”: Cohen tore down systems of philosophy without offering a clear alternative. On one such occasion he is …
For a while it seemed as if there were no more challenging problem in our domestic life than McCarthyism. To be sure, the man and the ism were shorthand for a cluster of unpleasant—not to say symptomatic—developments. How did the …
The literary reputation of Theodore Dreiser has suffered a slow but steady decline in recent years, curiously paralleling the decline of radical sentiment among American intellectuals. One of the critics who has been most effective in depreciating Dreiser has been …
A short time ago there appeared a 126-page monograph modestly entitled “Psychosis and Civilization” and written by Herbert Goldhamer and Andrew Marshall. This rather specialized statistical study, which would ordinarily be discussed only in the technical journals, was reviewed, somewhat …
American Capitalism purports to be an explanation of why our economy works so well in spite of the Cassandras who regularly predict its collapse.
