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Editors ▪ January 16, 1990

Upon receiving my Summer 1989 issue of Dissent, I was dismayed to see that you had changed the title of my review of Arno Mayer’s book without consulting me. My title— “The Holocaust as Byproduct?” — was meant to focus …

Are There Solutions? Corruption, Cynicism, and Reform Proposals

Editors ▪ Fall 1987

Last March Dissent organized, under the leadership of editor Fred Siegel, a round-table discussion on the problems of New York, with emphasis on the possibilities of solutions. We print below a transcript, sharply reduced for reasons of space. The round …

Muriel Gardiner

Editors ▪ Spring 1985

We have lost a dear friend. Muriel Gardiner was a distinguished psychoanalyst, author of several valuable books on psychological and social themes, and the wife of Joseph Buttinger, a leader of the Austrian socialist movement during the 1930s and, for …

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Editors: I was impressed by Bob Kuttner’s article, “Jobs,” in the Winter 1984 Dissent. I was struck by the boldness and simplicity of the “procurement” approach to full employment and economic growth. Pointing first to the experience of World War II—when, …

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Editors ▪ Summer 1984

Editors: Richard Appelbaum, Peter Dreier, and Michael Harrington (“A Faded Dream: Housing in America,” Dissent, Winter 1984) rightly argue that the free market cannot solve America’s housing problem, but their proposed solutions neglect an important consideration: most Americans don’t want …

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Editors ▪ Spring 1984

Editors: Gordon Beadle, in “Orwell and the Neoconservatives”(Dissent, Winter 1984), has disposed of the neoconservative attempt to “steal” the Orwell who wrote throughout his life as an unorthodox leftist and fought in Spain on the side of the revolutionary anti-Stalinist …

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Editors ▪ Winter 1984

Editors: I have been much interested in your article by Michael Walzer on “Failed Totalitarianism” in the Summer 83 Dissent. It has set me to thinking that possibly we (in the U.S.) are living in a period of somewhat “Failed …

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Editors ▪ Summer 1983

Michael Harrington argues persuasively in his article in Dissent, Fall 1982 [“A Path for America”] that we will soon be entering the age of social democracy in America. The failure of Reagan’s policies to end the recession is becoming apparent …

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Editors ▪ Spring 1983

In order to help move the United States “toward a sane defense policy,” Bogdan Denitch [in Dissent, Summer 1982] calls for “a fundamental examination” by the democratic left of “the assumption behind U.S. defense policy.” Denitch characterizes U.S. society as …

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Editors ▪ Winter 1983

I have subscribed to Dissent for many years—since 1960, I believe—and know I have helped the magazine gain a wider exposure. I convinced a librarian at the University of Western Ontario to establish a subscription, and to order all available …

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Editors ▪ Fall 1982

As activists in the American peace movement dedicated to the abolition of all nuclear weapons, we protest the actions of the Soviet government in detaining independent Soviet peace activists and seeking to prohibit their activities. Such actions—taken even as the …

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Editors ▪ April 4, 1982

In “How Critical Is Our Condition?” (Dissent, Fall 1981), Dennis Wrong inaccurately equates opposition to the Vietnam War with isolationism when he writes that McGovern’s 1972 candidacy represented “an essentially isolationist rejection of American involvement in world politics.” McGovern sensibly …