A drive in Congress to pass some form of “preventive detention” law is the Nixon Administration’s first installment payment on its “crime in the streets” campaign slogan. Proposals currently before Congress range all over the map. Senator Byrd of Virginia …
Steve Fraser’s article renders me virtually (but not totally) speechless. He doesn’t claim, directly, that democracy, as a general system of governance, is bad for unions. Had he done so, it might be easier to have a clear discussion. Although …
Bands of roughly dressed country folk were marching—or sliding—along the icy streets of Sofia with the Bulgarian tricolor in their hands. Their placards denounced the “decision of December 29,” called for a general strike, and demanded a referendum on “the …
Roger Baldwin was one of those extraordinary men who leave a permanent imprint on their society. His death at age 97 last summer left behind an America significantly more tolerant of dissent and more open to change because of his …
Are the rights and liberties of the American people being sent to hell in a basket? Or do they stand relatively secure, unaffected by “law and order” counter-pressures? Social and political tensions have been mounting through the late ’60s. For …
A federal district court in Boston has found Dr. Benjamin Spock and three of his codefendants guilty of conspiring to “hinder and interfere … with the administration” of the Selective Service Act, and to “counsel, aid and abet … the registrants …
Michael Harrington’s article in the March-April DISSENT admirably presents the moral-political issues involved in various forms of “resistance.” The American Civil Liberties Union has recently been compelled to grapple with these same problems from its own special angle. Which practices …
Paul Jacobs has written an intensely personal autobiography. Throughout the book he is trying to tell the reader how he felt about whatever he was doing during his youth as an American radical—or at least what he now thinks were …
EIGHT YEARS AGO the Truman administration issued the first list of governmentally proscribed organizations in American history. At the time the Attorney General’s “subversive list” was published, the proscription was supposed to extend only to government jobs for persons who …
In his article “Sects and Sectarians” which appeared in the Autumn 1954 issue of DISSENT, Lewis Coser calls for the dissolution of all existing socialist organizations in America. The following is an answer as much to DISSENT’S claim to represent …
