Spring 1983

At First Glance

Irving Howe

Comments and Opinions

Reagan’s Reactionary Budget

Luther Carpenter

A Growing Burden on the Workers

Horst Brand

A Talk with Victor Reuther

Irving Howe

Democratic Reform in the Miners’ Union

Paul F. Clark

Black Politics in Brooklyn

Jim Sleeper

Reagan’s Disasters in Central America

Juan E. Corradi

Coping with Recession

Gar Alperovitz, Kenneth J. Arrow, Douglas Fraser, Victor Gotbaum, Robert Heilbroner, Robert Lekachman

Articles

Mitterrand’s First Two Years: An Advanced Welfare State in One Country?

Lewis Coser

The Bishops and the Bomb

John C. Cort and Peter Steinfels

Industrializing Our Universities

Irwin Stark

An American Tragedy: Act Two

Frank Hearn, Michael Mertens, Jamie Faricellia

Eve and the New Jerusalem

Barbara Taylor

Some Problems of Democracy

Iring Fetscher

Poland: Must History Repeat Itself?

Lukacz Socha

The Agonies of Bertura in Brazil

Mark J. Osiel

Brezhnev: A Bureaucrat’s Profile

Roy Medvedev

Notebook

Graying of the Intellectuals

Russell Jacoby

Who Killed Carlo Tresca?

Emanuel Geltman

Reform in Eastern Europe

A.J. Liehm

Solidarity at Work in Paris

Tony Levitas

Afghan Resistance

Cheryl Bernard

Communiations

Feminism, Community, Freedom

Marshall Berman and Jean Bethke Elshtain

Books

Why Did They Stay?

Joseph Clark

The Past Recaptured

Peter Gay

Shall We Go MAD or NUTS?

Murray Hausknecht

Women Who Work

Cynthia Fuchs Epstein

Letters

Editors