This book is about job loss, plant closings, and community decline, or what the authors call “wide- spread, systematic disinvestment in the nation’s basic productive capacity.” They describe the various forms such disinvestment takes, assess its impact, analyze the forces …
A decade ago Tom Wolfe coined the term “radical chic” to describe what he regarded as a trendy identification of the wealthy with the poor. Wolfe’s 1970 essay focused on a benefit for the Black Panther party, and what he …
The young Rebecca West was a marvel. Born as Cicily Isabel Fairfield in 1892, she became a journalist in her youth for socialist and feminist publications. She wrote with verve, humor, and energy; she was a wicked polemicist; she didn’t …
When David Stockman, the Sorcerer of supply-side Fantasia, characterized George Gilder’s Wealth and Poverty as “Promethean in intellectual power and insight,” Gilder quickly gained prominence as a New Right ideologue. After Ronald Reagan seconded the motion, Gilder became the Sorcerer’s …
In the Daily Citizen of October 9 there was a sentimental quotation, seemingly of feminist import, from the Shipping World. A new Act in the States has decreed that every vessel navigating on the American coast or the Great Lakes …
Sixteen years have passed since Israel occupied the West Bank in June 1967. If the occupation continues for another three years—and there are no visible reasons to expect its cessation—it will reach the same number of years as those of …
“She belonged to neither the hunters nor the hunted, the persecutors nor the persecuted. The ugly scenes which followed Hitler’s triumphant entry into Austria need have been none of her concern.” – Anna Freud But they were Muriel Gardiner’s concern, …
Hungary lost her independence four and a half centuries ago and has not regained it since. There was always a great power nearby that kept occupying troops on our soil in peacetime and held our people under its sway with …
When it comes to public-sector unionism, some- times good news is no news. How else to explain the refusal of the news media to cover the largerst union organizing victory in recent history? In ballots counted on June 29, the …
In mid-July, on a hot Detroit afternoon, I came to Solidarity House—the national headquarters of the United Automobile Workers Union—to have a talk with Owen Bieber, the union’s new president. The result follows below. In a 1961 film illustrating how …
Affirmative action, school integration, black economic status, the Reagan administration’s attack on civil rights, and the exercise of black political power: these are some of the matters that now concern the civil rights community. Together, they may suggest a picture …
“It’s just not fair,” said Prendergast to his fellow movers-and-shakers at lunch in the White House Mess. “Margaret Thatcher makes more mistakes and botches the economy even worse than our boss, and because she is lucky enough to fall into …
Let us now imagine the reaction of a reviewer, writing in an imaginary journal that we will call the Revolutionary Worker. (I have never heard of one with that title, and hastily apologize to its editor if by any chance …
A new idea has appeared amid the debris of what was once a powerful theory: the Marxist concept of class has been revived and applied, at last, to that elusive stratum, the intellectuals. From standpoints as diverse as left- Hegelianism, …
There are prominent members of the Labour party, both on the left and on the right, who don’t seem to recognize the severity of the beating we suffered in the general election of June 1983. But some of us at …
