I assume each of the respondents will begin by rejecting your condition—to discuss the Vietnam war “apart from urgent expressions of anxiety and indignation.” That would be like talking about hell without fire. The conduct of this war is inseparable …
Editors: In the Summer 1960 issue, on p. 813, you introduce a writer as a “professional student of American military affairs.” I wonder about this “student’s” qualifications. Everyone should know that defensive weapons cannot be distinguished from offensive weapons. To …
The end result of Henry Pachter’s contribution to DISSENT’S discussion of contemporary foreign policy [Spring, 1958] is to compound the confusion of an already chaotic situation. George Orwell once observed that the English language “becomes ugly and inaccurate because our …
ORIENTAL DESPOTISM, by Karl August Wittfogel. Yale University Press, 1957 In calling his book “a comparative study of total power,” the author is doing himself justice, for the book indeed is an immense file case of characteristics which at various …
