Well, the nation has saved itself from the disgrace of Goldwaterism. Mostly, it seems, because the fear of atomic war proved to be decisive: it’s one thing to rant and rumble about getting tough with the Commies, quite another to …
The Rise of the Soviet Empire by Jan Librach Praeger University Series, 380 pp., $2.50 The following statement appears on page 77 of this book: “It is possible that the Kremlin, fearing the adverse effect a Communist rule in Spain …
Simply by winning the Republican nomination, Senator Goldwater has left a strong imprint on American politics. Everything now shifts in his direction. The apparatus of a major party lies in the grip of his friends: nor will they easily be …
This magazine was begun in the hope that it would survive at least a year. It has lasted ten. And it is going stronger than ever. Our paid circulation is at the highest point since we began; our influence, so …
James Baldwin first came to the notice of the American literary public not through his own fiction but as author of an impassioned criticism of the conventional Negro novel. In 1949 he published in Partisan Review an essay called “Everybody’s …
for the Negro liberation movement in the future as it has in the past, or should it be replaced by new methods? If so, which methods? Should the liberation movement try to play a more directly political role? Should it …
Pursue a disastrous policy long enough, and the outcome is inevitable. Politics is a ruthless discipline; error and stupidity exact a cruel price. Supporting the authoritarian Diem in the name of anti-Communism, the U.S. helped spawn the odious Nhus, which …
James Baldwin first came to the notice of the American literary public not through his own fiction but as author of an impassioned criticism of the conventional Negro novel. In 1949 he published in Partisan Review an essay called “Everybody’s …
The Negro revolution may be blocked here and diverted there, but it cannot be stopped. It surges up from the very depths of our social life, from people who for decades had been cowed into silence or drugged into apathy. …
The Bureaucratic Revolution by Max Shachtman Donald Press, 360 pp., $2.95 During the 1940s and 1950s the author of this book was the leader of a tiny radical organization, the Independent Socialist League. Originally a fracture from the American Trotskyist …
How many readers can recall the intellectual atmosphere in this country at the time Dissent started publishing, almost a decade ago? It was a moment of retreat, even rout. A good many intellectuals formerly of the left were engaged in …
There are ways in which Patriotic Gore is a masterpiece. As an evocation of the literary and intellectual figures whose experience was shaped by the Civil War, the book is Plutarchian in its vividness. It displays to full advantage Wilson’s …
Milovan Djilas is in jail once more, this time because he has published, during the era of deStalinization, a book with unflattering recollections of Stalin. As he himself remarks, there is little new in what he says. Anyone who remembers …
It is hard to imagine that anything written these last few months could cast so harsh a light on the future of our society as Cybernation, a pamphlet written by Donald Michael and published by the Center for the Study …
Now that our distinguished liberal intellectuals have finished proclaiming “the end of ideology,” it begins to seem that we are entering an intensely ideological period in American history. After living in California only a few months, one discovers that the …
