That the American Committee for Cultural Freedom is a grouping of some significance in our intellectual life, is not to be disputed. Its well-publicized statements are often taken as the quasi-official opinion of intellectual liberalism. It counts among its members, …
By one of those neat coincidences that sometimes illuminate political life, former Senator Harry Cain launched a powerful criticism of the government’s “security” program at the very moment the Americans for Democratic Action (ADA) was opening its recent convention in …
The literary reputation of Theodore Dreiser has suffered a slow but steady decline in recent years, curiously paralleling the decline of radical sentiment among American intellectuals. One of the critics who has been most effective in depreciating Dreiser has been …
As this is being written, Bonn’s parliament is voting for German rearmament. This caps the policy of “restoration” pursued during recent years by the U.S. in Western Europe; at the same time it introduces additional elements of rigidity not merely …
This article has an interesting origin, and may yet, have a small history. It was requested of several American writers including myself by Melvin Lasky, editor of “Der Monat” in West Berlin, and there is a chance that Bert Brecht, …
The recent rash of mergers in American industry has , once again highlighted the problem of monopoly. Quite the most glamorous corporate marriages have occurred in automobiles, where the overwhelming strength of Chrysler, Ford and General Motors forced Hudson into …
The re-unification of the CIO and AFL, after twenty long years, will send hopes soaring in the battered House of Labor. The word “unity” has a magic which deeply affects not only the man at the lathe but his intellectual …
Premier Pierre Mendès-France, it is reported here, is being criticized in the United States for lacking a sense of humor. Be that as it may, for the first time in recent history the entertainers of Montmartre are at a loss …
The intense interest which Isaac Deutscher’s recent writings on the Soviet Union have aroused reflects the fact that, adequately or inadequately, he has, almost alone, posed the critical questions which confront serious students of contemporary Soviet power. A keen historian, …
AMERICA NOW HAS A LARGE intellectual industry devoted to showing that there is no conflict between science and religion, an industry that is but one aspect of the increasing general tendency to play down elements of conflict in American life. …
Between Jacobinism (by which I mean the government of the Mountain, from June 1793 to July 1794) and Bolshevism, there is a significant parallel. Lenin himself is fond of drawing it in his speeches. Like all Russian socialists, Lenin was …
The Editors of DISSENT have invited me to wind up the controversy which has gone on on these pages over my views on the present state of Soviet society. Before replying to my critics I would like to make a …
The last 40 years have witnessed the collapse of most of the great politico-social myths bequeathed to us by the 19th century. As a result, certain kinds of people who had relied on these myths as a compass find themselves …
AMERICAN THOUGHT, Morris Raphael Cohen. The Free Press, Glencoe, Ill., 1954. $5.00. While this series of sketches of American thought was intended to be comprehensive, it was far from complete at the time of Cohen’s death, and the result is …
I HOLD WITH THOSE (probably our ranks have grown since the Call election) who insist that Vice President Richard Nixon, may be a far greater danger to the Republic than Joe McCarthy. The recent campaign seems to bear this out. …
