In September 1954 Fortune magazine ran an article severely criticizing the use of psychological “personality tests” on business executives. It was not simply a run-of-the-mill attack upon science as science, or even upon pseudo-science as science. Instead, it was relatively …
Any contraction of the Cold War and ensuing attempts to “normalize” international relations raise fresh hopes for a peaceful solution of the prevailing imperialist antagonisms. For the Western world this involves new evaluations of the Bolshevik regimes and their aggressive …
We have to go back to the witch doctors or the Shakespeare of Hamlet or Macbeth to reach a world in which spectres, abstract beings, names come to life, “objective powers” play so large a part as they do in …
Democracy and Planning Editors: I read Stuart Hampshire’s article, “In Defense of Radicalism,” (DISSENT, Spring ’56) with great interest and agree essentially with his notions of the function of the radical in society. However, Mr. Hampshire seems to have overlooked …
The one issue that seems most important this year to politicians and public alike is the President’s Health. If the apparent lack of substantive issues means that the major difference between the parties lies in the names of the candidates …
You don’t remember the Wobblies. You were too young. Or else not even born yet. There has never beeii anything like them, before or since. They called themselves materialisteconomists but what they really were was a religion. They were workstiffs and bindlebums …
This open letter to Picasso originally appeared in the June, 1956 issue of Preuves and is published with permission of both its author and the editors. This letter to you, Picasso, is not a personal letter. You are a genius, …
What is the privileged French minority defending in Algeria? A past of ease and comfort that certain of them already regard with remorse. Some try to deny what is happening and desperately reject this image of an Algerian people suddenly …
Both as a concept and a social movement, African nationalism contains three major elements: 1) a pervasive antagonism to alien domination, particularly that of the European powers; 2) a quest by Africans for “moral status”—first in their homelands and then …
An Interview with Chief Luthuli, Head of the National Congress In 1954 George Houser, then visiting South Africa, met Chief Albert J. Luthuli, present head of the African National Congress and, as such, an authoritative spokesman for large numbers of …
French public opinion has been deeply stirred by the increasingly detailed news of widespread repression in Algeria. Temoignage Chretien published in its January 6th issue an appeal of 700 political internees held in the camp of Djorf near M’Sila. This …
When the Mau Mau rebellion broke out in Kenya in the fall of 1952, the American press was quick to interpret it as a “terroristic” uprising by a people barely a few generations away from “savagery.” It was said that …
Jean Cocteau tells the story of a young governess in a school in pre-revolutionary Russia, who found the task of disciplining her turbulent pupils beyond her powers. She therefore hit upon the expedient of persuading her pupils to draw up …
“Nero, too, was a product of his epoch. Yet after he perished his statues were smashed and his name was scraped off everything. The vengeance of history is more terrible than the vengeance of the most powerful General Secretary. I …
THE NORTH AFRICAN peoples have a common destiny. In Tunisia, after the arrest of the Chenik government came oppression, with all its violence. After the assassination of my friends Ferhat Hached and Hedi Chaker, there was virtually war. In Morocco, …
