Politics

The Long March of the New York Intellectuals

And the fate of criticism.

  • Neil Jumonville

Exorcizing Pornography

It would be simpler to burn a few magazines than to explore the economic, social, and psychological factors of which both rape and pornography are symptoms.

  • Walter Kendrick

After the Fall

What both parties have in common.

  • Joshua Cohen
  • Joel Rogers

What’s Left for the Left?

Reviewing On Democracy by Joshua Cohen and Joel Rogers.

  • Christopher S. Allen
  • Suzanne Gordon

The Best-Selling of Vietnam

The distortions of Stanley Karnow’s Vietnam: A History.

  • Noam Chomsky

The Great Refusal

On the 1960’s “inspiring, magnificent core.”

  • Howard Zinn

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Embattled Lebanon

For the last ten years, the country has been held hostage by its own people and by regional wars and revolutions.

  • Sherman Teichman

Palestinian Writers in Israel

An interview with Samih al-Qasim and Emile Habibi.

  • Samih al-Qasim
  • Emile Habibi
  • Roger Hardy

Economics of the Arms Race

  • John Kenneth Galbraith

Upper West Side Story

Against history as self-help.

  • Jackson Lears

America First

The United States in the arms race.

  • H. Bruce Franklin

Making Them in Massachusetts

A report on the state’s nuclear weapons industry.

  • Christine L. Kane

The First to Oppose

Atomic scientists against the arms race.

  • Alice Kimball Smith

Is There Life After Doomsday?

None of us should rest as long as nuclear weapons are loose in the world.

  • Howard L. Rosenberg

A Writer’s Reflections on the Nuclear Age

The dominant proposition of the atomic age cannot be refuted with any single sweeping show of virtue analogous to the bomb.

  • Shirley Hazzard

The Only Way to Survive

The long-lasting social and psychological effects of the bomb.

  • Robert Jay Lifton

Approaching 1984

  • William Chace

First Victims, Last Hope

On publishers and writers in the struggle for human rights.

  • Jacobo Timerman

Inside the Death Factory

On women vets of Vietnam.

  • Christine L. Kane
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