Kudos for Abel Editor: Thank you for Lionel Abel. On an exacting day, when fire and brimstone rained down from heaven, rigorist judgment had stipulated for ten. But I believe the March–April issue of Dissent can be saved by just this …
Problems of “Legitimacy” Editor: Michael Walzer is in error when he says, “The `Call to resist illegitimate authority’ is . . . misnamed. It is a call to resist the immoral acts of legitimate authorities.” I am astonished that he …
Interventionism Again EDITOR: In his comment on discussions concerning the CIA (“Anti-Communism and the CIA,” May–June, 1967), Michael Walzer maintains that if one opposes secret CIA interference in Indian anti-Maoist politics, one must argue that a Maoist victory is either …
Mark Jay Oromaner, Warren C. Haggstrom, reply by Frank Riessman
Editors: In his article “Let’s Talk Sense About Oswald,” in the March—April 1967 issue, Henri Rabasseire suggests that much credit must be given to the Warren Report because the case for Oswald has been built on material contained in the …
I have just finished reading Paul Feldman’s extraordinary article on “black power” in the January—February 1967 DISSENT. It is certainly the best discussion on the subject I have seen, and probably the best article on the civil rights movement I’ve …
Editors: You have published a good deal of material on Vietnam, and Irving Howe’s articles analyze the situation well. His analyses seem to lead to definite conclusions, but he has shied away from making such conclusions. Some individual editors have …
Editors: The issues between me and Mr. Hoffman (DISSENT, July—August 1966), each as representatives of points of view, are so important, I believe, both for the fate of academia and the moral texture of our society, that I think space …
Editors: In his interesting discussion on Frantz Fanon’s The Wretched of the Earth (DISSENT, May-June 1966) Lewis Coser expresses the hope that Fanon’s “destructive vision” may lead Western men to compassion, to a sense of fraternity and a lack of …
Editors: I’m damned if I can reconstruct the reasoning that went into the editorial caveat preceding Laura Carper’s sensitive article in your last issue. Certainly not “controversy.” The piece in answer to Hannah Arendt (also an excellent article) has involved …
Letters from Andrew Hawley and George Fischer
The discussion we propose here is confined to those who are critical of current U.S. policy in Vietnam. Apart from urgent expressions of anxiety as to the dangers of an escalated war and equally urgent condemnations of terror bombings and …
Editor: Irving Howe’s “New Styles in ‘Leftism’” DISSENT, Summer 1965] calls for critical comment. For two decades this sort of defensive anti-communism has undermined the American left, which should not be encumbered by such comparative side-issues. Now, bypassed by new …
Editors: Mr. Greenebaum is entitled to his opinion of my book: The Rise of the Soviet Empire, A Study of Soviet Foreign Policy [DISSENT, Winter 1965]. However, he takes advantage of an obvious printer’s error (1934 for 1936) to argue …
