The obvious answer is, No of course not. But there are signs and portents. It’s a strange moment. There is a lot of social uproar in the country. With the possible exception of China, no major power in the world …
I write these lines as a hasty last-minute response to the news that the CIA has been secretly subsidizing certain activities abroad of the National Student Association (NSA) and other student groups. By the time this issue of DISSENT reaches …
Let me add a word to Mike Harrington’s valuable comment. It has become clear that—in the long run—the established interest groups and power blocs in American society seem to be weakening, perhaps disintegrating. This is a fact that those of …
Like many other people, I have been reading the recent literature on the history and politics of Vietnam. It is a depressing experience, which bears out once more de Tocqueville’s remark that “a true but complicated idea has always less …
To some people the growing escalation of the Vietnam War means a rain of napalm, mangled children, human torment, and the dread prospect of a new world war. To others it means something else. “Military planners” and certain kinds of …
Something important is happening in South Vietnam, even if its exact nature is not yet clear. The demonstrations in Saigon and Hue, the consolidation of the Buddhist factions into an apparently united force, the visible weakness of Ky’s military government …
Andrei Sinyaysky and Yuli Daniel, who published fiction and essays in Western periodicals under the pennames of Abram Tertz and Nikolai Arzhak, have been sentenced to seven and five years in forced labor camps by the Russian Supreme Court. They …
The world knew him as a gifted musician, but to those of us who had grown up with him in the socialist youth movement, he was, above all, a figure from those vibrant years when everything seemed possible. Buoyant, large …
“We have been patient for five years with those who offered a military solution in Vietnam,” said Senator McGovern. “Now let us be equally patient in the effort to find a peaceful solution.” But the official “patience” of the U.S. …
We propose that the U.S. government declare in favor of an immediate cease-fire. Nothing less will do if the mounting slaughter is to be stopped, nothing less than a forthright declaration to the world that as of a certain date …
I have never met William Buckley, and the only place I’d care to would be on a public platform, in debate. But for some time I’ve been hearing about his attractive qualities: he is charming, witty, literate, a cultivated man …
Adlai Stevenson was surely the most attractive human being to figure prominently in American politics since the second world war. He was a cultivated man in the tradition of an older America that seems almost to have disappeared. His wit …
With this issue DISSENT opens up a discussion of the “new leftism,” in which, as always in our pages, a wide range of opinion will be welcome and each person will speak for himself. One view is expressed below by …
These remarks, unavoidably, are being written about a month before they will be read. In the interim, changes are likely to occur in the Vietnam crisis. But the fundamental facts, precipitated by years of political reaction and obtuseness, are not …
The murder of a human being is never to be dismissed, especially of one like the Rev. Reeb. Yet that is not new, and probably it will happen again, many times, before the Negro liberation movement gains its complete victory. …
