Has Richard Nixon been converted by some radicals? Has the Administration been infiltrated by Communists? It sounds unbelievable, but here the President proposes to Congress a radically new foreign aid program, abolishing all bilateral transactions and with it the obnoxious …
The memoirs of Albert Speer have received favorable, even enthusiastic notices in the English and American press, and the first question to ask is why, after 25 years, anyone still cares to read about the in-fighting among Hitler’s top lieutenants, …
The Question Asked: Clearly, a superpower that maintains bases and troops on foreign soil, wages war in faraway countries, provides others with arms worth $3 billion a year, and influences their foreign as well as domestic policies; • a country, …
This is an important, and, in a way, a moving book. Professor Williams is well-known as the author of three hard-hitting works: The Shaping of American Diplomacy, The Tragedy of American Diplomacy, and The Contours of American History, which defined …
The name of Leszek Kolakowski is famous outside the borders of his native Poland and far beyond the circle of professional philosophers, not because his doctrines are exciting like Sartre’s or his discoveries pioneering like Galileo’s, but because his much …
Like other minorities, black Americans have a history of their own—peculiar sufferings and peculiar experiences, as well as special forms of resistance or of protective evasion. But this history is distinguished from the history of all other minorities in that …
Reading Robert Kennedy’s posthumous account of the momentous Cuban confrontation, I felt a shudder descending my spine. Realizing that the story hinged on the question whether to drive Khrushchev harder or to give him room for maneuver, I could not help …
Not only the East has its revisionists. In this country, too, and even more insistently in Western Europe, honest research has led to a thorough and often painful re-appraisal of recent history. The conventional view of the so-called Cold War, …
The whim of history will press into a man’s hand a flag behind which he rallies people—only to discover that he does not understand them and that they don’t know why they follow him. This happened to George F. Kennan, …
In a recent New Yorker, Richard Rovere made these points: 1) there is no basic difference between the Korean and the Vietnamese wars; 2) nor is the different reaction to both due to the more developed techniques of reporting; 3) …
June 12, 1967 I have talked to a number of citizens of Jewish descent —some of whom have relatives in Israel or have lived there—who, like me, have been troubled by the ruthless actions of the Tel Aviv government in …
Baran and Sweezy may have felt that in writing Monopoly Capital they were doing for the Space Age what Karl Marx had done for the Textile Age and Lenin for the Steel Age. Let it be said from the outset …
February 10, 1967 It is necessary to date one’s commentaries on China; the events are overtaking us, and only by sheer luck did our articles in the two preceding issues remain topical until they were in the hands of our …
The Great Cultural Revolution which vents its ire against capitalistic hairdos, blasphemous traffic lights, Western books, and revisionist street names baffles the old China hands in Moscow, Washington, and even Havana. What is the meaning of these youthful Red Guards …
One always preserves the fears of his youth. Those who grew up in the fifties will never forget McCarthy: when they see a Communist being attacked, they are sure it’s a witch hunt. Some liberals are so obsessed by the …
