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at 3/29/23 10:39am- — Can Israel Be a Democracy for All?
- at 3/28/23 8:39amIt is a mistake to ignore the connection between the attempted judicial coup in Israel and the occupation of the West Bank.
- — A New Path to Diversity
- at 3/23/23 8:19amThe Supreme Court is poised to overturn race-based affirmative action. But preferences based on socioeconomic disadvantage—which are both politically popular and legally sound—could produce similarly high levels of diversity.
- — Michael Walzer Responds
- at 3/22/23 1:50pmI AGREE WITH Jim Rule on the wrongness of Israeli settlement policy. I dont believe, as he suggests, that ending American support for that policy would reduce hatred for the United States in the Arab and Muslim worlds. People who …
- — Liberal Commitments
- at 3/21/23 8:36amAn interview with Michael Walzer on The Struggle for a Decent Politics.
- — Letters
- at 3/20/23 11:33amEditors: Alfred Kazin (They Made It, Dissent, Fall 1988) suggests that I find the legal execution of innocents acceptable in the implied sense of unobjectionable, wherefore I am despicable. This is an adscititious misinterpretation. In the context acceptable meant predictable …
- — The Strength of Memory
- at 3/15/23 1:27pmWRITE a long, flowing political novel about a small group of Old Left, Anti-Stalinist socialists, tracing their paths from a youthful idealism in the late thirties to a weariness in the early sixties. Weave together their tangled personal lives and …
- — “Pluralism” and American History
- at 3/15/23 1:22pmFEW SCHOLARS HAVE INFLUENCED our thinking about extremism as much as Seymour Martin Lipset, professor of social relations at Harvard. The first writer to apply the concept of a radical Right to American social movements (in 1951), he later proposed …
- — Change under Communism
- at 3/15/23 12:26pmAFTER THE 1956 UPHEAVALS in the Communist world, and with the open outbreak of conflict between the Soviet and Chinese regimes, it became difficult to maintain the old belief that Communism was unvaried and unchanging. Yet, no matter how much …
- — Artless Utopia?
- at 3/15/23 12:21pmALL LITERATURE IS UTOPIAN in that fictive worlds are literally ou topos, i.e., no place. Implicitly or explicitly, literature is almost always a criticism of life because imagined reality is inevitably comparable to sensibly perceived reality. Actions can scarcely be …
- — Can Life Become Better?
- at 3/15/23 12:14pmLOSS OF IDENTITY and quest for community—these phrases, nearly worn out from overuse by pop-intellectuals, are rescued and restored to life by Richard Sennett in this thoughtful, seminal little book about the urban condition in America. Condition rather than crisis, …
- — Hitler and His Enemies
- at 3/15/23 12:07pmONE CAN APPROACH the phenomenon of fascism from various angles. The first analyses, mostly by Communist writers, explained it simply as the dictatorship of monopoly capital (a thesis that still lingers in Franz Neumann’s Behemoth, 1941, and Ignazio Silone’s School for Dictators, …
- — Mircea Cărtărescu Stares Down the Abyss
- at 3/15/23 9:10amThe Romanian writer Mircea Cărtărescu boasts a long, international-award-winning bibliography of poetry and prose. Yet in his fiction, he often speaks through narrators hostile to publication and recognition.
- — Rolf Hochhuth’s “The Deputy”
- at 3/14/23 9:20amNo play as important, as interesting as Rolf Hochhuths The Deputy has been shown for a very long time—and no play as interesting in an important way. I would insist, too, that the importance of the work is due not …
- — Rolf Hochhuth’s “The Deputy
- at 3/14/23 9:20amNo play as important, as interesting as Rolf Hochhuths The Deputy has been shown for a very long time—and no play as interesting in an important way. I would insist, too, that the importance of the work is due not …
- — Know Your Enemy: Whittaker Chambers and the Freight Train of History
- at 3/13/23 8:51amA discussion on the life and times of Whittaker Chambers, the Communist spy who became a conservative hero.
- — The Student Movement
- at 3/10/23 2:42pmIn the last few months, especially since the war in Vietnam and protests against it have both escalated, a number of commentators from many wings of opinion—right, center, and socialist—have expressed a great deal of doubt about and disapproval of …
- — Reconstruction and Indecision
- at 3/10/23 2:37pmI never met a colleague in the teaching of a college history course who expected to learn very much from grading a batch of blue books. Yet an untidy pile of essays on my desk—essays designed to persuade me that …
- — A Mighty Story Retold
- at 3/10/23 9:26amToil and Trouble: A History of American Labor by Thomas R. Brooks, foreword by A.H. Raskin Delacorte, 300 pp., $6.00 There are Civil War buffs who read and reread the chronicles of that immensely important time. There are labor buffs …
- — “Partial, Passionate, and Political”
- at 3/10/23 9:20amThe Anxious Object: Art Today and Its Audience by Harold Rosenberg Horizon Press, 270 pp., $7.50 I praised Harold Rosenbergs first volume of criticism (The Tradition of the New) for its variety: this new volume must be praised for its …
- — Energy Anxiety
- at 3/9/23 8:21amAfter more than half a century of dependence on Russian oil and gas, the war in Ukraine has forced German officials to reconsider their reliance on fossil fuels entirely.
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