I was privileged to be Bayard’s friend for over forty-five years and a colleague for the past twenty-three. I would like to try to give some sense of what made Bayard—not his activities, not his achievements, not his politics—these have …
In the history of Soviet culture, the spring of 1987 will go down as a time of significant changes. A year ago we could only speak of a “thaw,” major changes in the principal branches of culture. But as of …
Millions of families with children— those who don’t belong to the affluent upper crust, and even some of those who do—are having a tough time in America today. Their problems deserve a place on our national agenda, and policies designed …
Why have the social conditions of the ghetto underclass deteriorated so rapidly in recent years? Racial discrimination is the most frequently invoked explanation, and it is undeniable that discrimination continues to aggravate the social and economic problems of poor blacks. …
As a love that dared not speak its name and then refused to shut up, homosexuality was officially superseded last October by the breathless, embattled new patriotism of former “Movement” radicals who met in Washington to burst together out of …
Some of the contributors to this collection of essays would describe themselves as democratic socialists. Some as liberals. Others as liberal-socialists. And a few perhaps as people of the democratic left who prefer not to be labeled. So be it. …
In July 1987, a group of Afrikaner dissidents met in Dakar, Senegal, with officials of the African National Congress. Among the Afrikaners attending were Frederick Van Zyl Slabbert, former leader of the parliamentary opposition, Beyers Naude, former secretary of the …
Each year more Americans face an uncertain health future with inadequate or no insurance to help pay for medical care. National efforts to control and contain medical expenditures, which are endangering the quality of care, have met with few successes. …
Genesis is the key to understanding. It is in their respective, and widely different, stories of birth and emergence that we find the key to understanding the new courses of Khrushchev and Gorbachev. Khrushchev’s failed attempt at reform grew out …
As we totter on the edge of a recession, Reaganomics, plus the foreign policy that went with it for seven happy-go-lucky years, seems just about totally discredited. So what else is new? Isn’t it obvious to everyone? Well, not quite. …
If anything like a national mood can be discovered in America, then we ought to be facing a moment of harsh sobriety. The party is over; the plates are broken; the debts unpaid. After the Crash. What happened on Bloody …
This should be the Democratic moment. Well before October’s crash, the Reagan administration had shuddered to an overdue halt, its own agenda unenactable and its viable agenda—arms control, last year’s tax reform— lifted without acknowledgement from the center. The much-ballyhooed …
What are the first steps—and then a few beyond—that a newly elected administration should take in 1989? If the Republicans win, the most we can expect is a backing-away from the more extreme versions of Reaganism. But suppose a Democrat, …
In 1926, three years before the Great Crash and a decade before publication of his own grand synthesis, Keynes wrote a prescient essay titled The End of Laissez-Faire. “Some coordinated act of intelligent judgment is required,” he wrote, “as to …
The history of arms control over the past seven years has been an astounding and lurid tale, full of unexpected twists, cynical betrayals, palace maneuverings, popular insurrections, and ironic turns of the dialectic. Through it all has stumbled the extraordinary …
