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FROM THE ARCHIVES The Other America Behind Mass Culture, a Hidden Variety Michael Harrington At twenty, most of us have painfully learned that stereotypes are a way of lying, of expressing the...

A parable: (September 1989)

A parable In desert societies-including the American Southwest-water is so precious that it is money. People connive and fight and die over it; governments covet it; marriages are even made and...

The Future of Poverty (November 1984)

her previous worker. He had quit over a month before and still It's not that serious." For some reason I didn't believe her. hadn't been replaced. I had a violent argument with my su- "He's dead,"...

Paradise or disintegration: (November 1983)

JAMES MERRILL'S UNIQUE SEARCH FOR NEW MYTHS Paradise or disintegration MICHAEL HARRINGTON IT IS POSSIBLE that James Merrill's The Changing Light at Sandover (Atheneum, $25, $12.95 paper, 560...

Naming Names (December 1980)

Books: THE INFORMING HEART Between 1954 and 1956, I was John Cogley's assistant while he directed the Fund for the Republic's study of the blacklist in the entertainment industry. I went with...

The P.L.O. & the democratic Left (January 1980)

ARE SOCIALIST LEADERS COMPROMISING WITH TERRORISM? The P.L.O. & the democratic Left MICHAEL HARRINGTON ESTORIL, a resort half an hour's drive from Lisbon, is a European classic with its casino...

The Streets Were Paved with Gold: (July 1979)

Books:MISDIAGNOSING THE CITY DISEASE THE DECLINE of the great cities of the TIE STREETS WERE PAVED WITI COLD try altogether. In a decade over hall Northeast and...

MUST THOUGHT RE MERELY POIGNANT? (September 1978)

BOOKS MUST THOUGHT BE MERELY POIGNANT? MICHAELHARRINGTON The Life of the Mind: Vol. !: Thinking Vol. U: Willing HANNAH ARENDT Harcourt, Brace, $12.50 ea. Vol. !: [258...

JOBS FOR ALL (January 1976)

JOBS FOB ALL MICHAEL HARRINGTON The national goal should be planning for full employment National economic planning is now being placed on the political agenda. The reason is not hard to find....

THE MISCONCEPTION OF SOCIETY (November 1975)

BOOKS THE MISCONCEPTION OF SOCIETY MICHAEL HARRINGTON Anarchy, State and Utopia ROBERT NOZICK Basic Books, $12.95 Once upon a time, philosophy was philosophical. That is, it addressed the...

SOAKING THE POOR (October 1972)

I ,I SOAKING THE POOR MICHAEL HARRINGTON We should consider relying upon a really progressive federal income tax as the sole source of public funds for all purposes The American tax...

MR. NIXON'S REACTIONARY REVOLUTION (November 1971)

MR. NIXON'S REACTIONARY REVOLUTION 000 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Our conservative Republican President has placed radical issues on society's agenda MICHAEL HARRINGTON On August I5 of this...

THE POLITICS OF POLLUTION (April 1970)

THE POLITICS OF POLLUTION Why are the corporations cooperating? MICHAEL HARRIS GTO1V One of the main reasons that the issue of the environment has suddenly become so popular and ubiquitous-...

RELIGION AND REVOLUTION (November 1969)

RELIGION AND REVOLUTION Tactics are not a function o f the eternal MICHAEL...

THE NEW RADICALISM (September 1965)

(e.g., Asia) would be significant. The special, personal competence of the persons concerned should be the criterion, not the antiquity of the episcopal see, etc. In this way, the experiences and...

The Other De Gaulle (January 1964)

The Other De Gaulle MICHAEL HARRINGTON THERE ARE two Charles de Gaulles. The first, beloved of cartoonists, is a cantankerous, willful, individualistic remnant of the nineteenth century,...

A New Soviet Man? (April 1963)

Behind the Conflict of Ideologies Is a Conflict of Personalities A New Soviet Man? MICHAEL HARBINGTON ONE OF THE most interesting aspects of the ferment within the Communist world today is human...

The Politics of Glory (March 1963)

De Gaulle Has Managed To Unite LeIt, Right and Center The Politics of Glory MICHAEL HARRINGTON IN FEBRUARY, 1962, when the White House served coffee to the pickets of the Student Peace Union,...

The American Contradiction (January 1963)

Michael Harrington The American Contradiction Much o f the current wave o f self -denunciation rests upon an uncriticized, optimistic...

After the Union Ball (November 1961)

After the Union Ball There has been a very real deficiency in effective and aggressive leadership in the American labor movement by MICHAEL HARRINGTON I N RECENT MONTHS there has been an...

The Economics of Racism (July 1961)

The Economics of Racism To be equal, the Negro requires something much more profound than a way into American society by MICHAEL HARRINGTON IF ALL the discriminatory laws in the United States...

The Other America (May 1960)

The Other America Beyond the neon signs and the Coke bottles, another America still survives -- as of now by MICHAEL HARRINGTON A T TWENTY, most of us have painfully learned that stereotypes...

Labor in the Doldrums (March 1960)

Labor in the Doldrums The central problem for unions today is to transcend the relative stagnation of the fifties by MICHAEL HARRINGTON T HE FIFTIES amounted to much more than a chronology of...

China-Soviet Conflict? (January 1960)

China-Soviet Conflict? Real differences undoubtedly exist. The question is: how serious are they in the over-all picture? by MICHAEL HARRINGTON F ROM THE offices of de Gaulle in Paris to the...

Marxist Literary Critics (December 1959)

Foreign Service personnel cannot use a single foreign language. As for the remarks in my article concerning the deficiencies of both the American scene and U.S. foreign policy, I and others more...

Communist Youth Festival (August 1959)

REPORT FROM VIENNA Communist Youth Festival by MICHAEL HARRINGTON A T FIRST GLANCE, the Seventh World Youth Festival for Peace and Friendship in Vienna during late July and August looked like...

China's Great Leap (February 1959)

China's Great Leap The totalitarian agony of the Chinese people could result in a widespread food shortage, even starvation, at the very moment when it succeeds by MICHAEL HARRINGTON COMMUNIST...

Communism in China (August 1958)

Stalinist or Revisionist ? Communism in China What kind of influence does Mao have on Khrushchev and Soviet foreign policy? by MICHAEL HARRINGTON W ITHIN RECENT months, Chinese Communism has...

Civil Liberties-by Fiat (March 1958)

Civil Liberties--by Fiat Recent gains in civil liberties have been welcome, but we must remember that what can be so gratuitously i be as g yen can easily taken away by MICHAEL HARRINGTON D...

Communism's Enemy Within (November 1957)

Communism's Enemy Within Milovan Diilas's study of the nature of Communist society is not simply an analysts of historical development; it is a product of that development as well. by...

Communications (March 1957)

COMMUNICATIONS "ASSAULT FROM WITHIN" Sayville, N.Y. TO the Editors: It is good to see the "conspiracy of silence" broken by Mr. Lawrence Podell's "Assault From Within" [Jan. 25]. He has exposed a...

Communism after Hungary: A Report In the United States (February 1957)

COMMUNISM AFTER HUNGARY In the United States MICHAEL HARRINGTON THE EVENTS of the last year have had a profound effect upon American Communists. One Communist, for example, is reported to have said...

Books (January 1957)

BOOKS A Great Dramatist's Approach to Autobiography MIRROR IN MY HOUSE: The Autobiographies of Sean O'Casey. Mac-millan. 2 Vols. $20. By DAVID H. GREENE MOST OF us already know that the Irish excel...

Books (January 1957)

BOOKS Need for Courage, Knowledge and Humility GO IN BEAUTY. By William Eastlake. Harper and Brothers. $3.50. By THOMAS F. CURLEY AFTER READING Mr. East-lake's book once, one is impressed and...

Critics' Choices for Christmas (December 1956)

Critics' Choices for Christmas ANTHONY BAILEY THE Acceptance World. By Anthony Powell. Farrar. $3.50. Mr. Powell may well be the finest novelist writing in England today and his sequence, "The...

Books (August 1956)

BOOKS Frank, Lucid Appraisal of Controversial F. D. R. ROOSEVELT: THE LION AND THE FOX. By James MacGregor Burns. Harcourt, Brace. $5.75. By MICHAEL HARRINGTON I T IS over a decade since...

Books (August 1956)

BOOKS The Oceanic Sense of James Joyce JOYCE, THE MAN, THE WORK, THE REPUTATION. By Marvin Magalaner and Richard M. Kain. New York University Press. $5. By MICHAEL HARRINGTON IF WE had not...

New Communist Line (July 1956)

New Communist Line "THIS TIME, THE AMERICAN COMMUNISTS SAY, WE ARE NOT WHAT WE HAVE ALWAYS BEEN IN THE PAST; THIS TIME WE ARE REALLY INDEPENDENT" MICHAEL HARRINGTON S OME TWENTY years ago, the...

Books (June 1956)

BOOKS The Severe and Light-hearted World of Saroyan MAMA I LOVE YOU. By William Saroyan. Atlantic-Little, Brown. $3.75. By THOMAS F. CURLEY T HE BEST review of this book was written by...

Books (May 1956)

BOOKS The Citizen as Patriot and Traitor THE LOYAL AND THE DISLOYAL. By Morton Grodzins. University of Chicago Press. $4. By MICHAEL HARRINGTON HOW DO we evaluate those officers of the...

The Nature of Stalinism (March 1956)

BOOKS The Nature of Stalinism MICHAEL HARRINGTON T HERE is no intellectual problem .in the modern world less academic than .that of the nature of Stalinism. Here is a social system which has...

Book Reviews (January 1956)

And Ever the Twain Shall Meet THE HONORABLE PICNIC. By Thomas Raucat. Translated by Leonard Cline. Decorations by Lorraine Combs. Viking. $3.50. By WILLIAM DUNLEA F OR the sake of...

Books (December 1955)

BOOKS Revealing Example of Charity and Hope THE CATHOLIC APPROACH TO PROTESTANTISM. By George H. Tavard. Harper. $2.50. By H. A. REINHOLD I F FATHER T a v a r d ' s book amounts to the...

Critics' Choices for Christmas (December 1955)

Critics' Choices for Christmas ELIZABETH BARTELME THESE are among the books I have most enjoyed during the past year: Marianne Moore's Predilections (Viking, $3.50), a collection of...

The Political Novel Today (October 1955)

The Political Novel Today "THE AFFIRMATION, IF THERE IS ONE, NO LONGER PROCLAIMS THE PROLETARIAN; IT ASSERTS RATHER THE PEASANT" MICHAEL HARRINCTON D URING the instants of great stress in...

Books (October 1955)

BOOKS The Despair and Hope of Modern Man THE MYTH OF SISYPHUS. By Albert Camus. Knopf. $3.50. By MICHAEL HARRINGTON A T the beginning of The Myth ol Sisyphus, Albert Camus describes the modem...

Book Reviews (October 1955)

Thomas Mann's Last Novel CONFESSIONS OF FELIX KRULL, CONFIDENCE MAN. By Thomas Mann. Translated by Denver Lindley. Knopf. $4.50. By HENRY POPKIN F ELIX Krull embodies equally the qualities of...

Politics in a New World (August 1955)

Politics in a New World "WE LIVE IN AN AGE OF FLUX, AND OUR ASSERTION OF VALUES MUST BEGIN WITH THIS FACT" MICHAEL HARRINCTON I N a fant, astic, yet suggestive, essay published at the turn of...

Art and Modern Criticism (August 1955)

BOOKS Art and Modern Criticism MICHAEL HARRINGTON MODERN criticism, like modern art, is introspective, theoretica!, epistemological. It reminds one of Gide s Counterfeiters where...

Books (July 1955)

BOOKS Humanity and Ideology in the Novel THE SEIZURE OF POWER. By Czeslaw Milosz. Criterion. $3.50. By MICHAEL HARRINGTON U NDERSTANDABLY enoug~h, politics have been the subject matter of a...

Books (May 1955)

BOOKS Continuity in Russian Thought THE MIND OF MODERN RUSSIA. Edited by Hans Kohn. Rutgers University Press. $5.50. By MICHAEL HARRINGTON HANS KOHN introduces this book on Russia with a...

The Advance of Automation (May 1955)

The Advance of Automation "AUTOMATION OPENS UP THE POSSIBILITY OF A THIRD REVOLUTION IN TECHNOLOGY - - AND IN SOCIETY" MICHAEL HARRINGTON A WORD out of the vocabulary of the brave new world has...

Books (February 1955)

BOOKS The Defense of a Basic American Tradition THE FIFTH AMENDMENT TODAY. Mr. Griswold accurately sum- ample, the case of the man who By Erwin N. Griswold. Harvard. Cloth marizes an attitude...

Book Reviews (January 1955)

The Inside Picture of Stendhal's Formative Years THE PRIVATE DIARIES OF STENDHAL. Edited and Translated by Robert Sage. Doubleday. $7.50 By MARTIN TURNELL I N 1799, when he was sixteen years...

Myths of U.S. Liberalism (December 1954)

Myths of U.S. Liberalism A DISSENT FROM CERTAIN KEY TENDENCIES OF THIS COUNTRY'S FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC POLICIES MICHAEL HARRINCTON L IBERALISM, as Lionel Trilling once remarked, is now the...

Books (December 1954)

BOOKS The Development of an American Poet SELECTED ESSAYS. By William Carlos Williams. Random House. $4.50. By NICHOLAS JOOST T HE essays in Dr. Williams' present book span the years from...

Critics' Choice for Christmas (December 1954)

Critics' Choice for Christmas VIVIAN MERCIER A N unusually large number of books of lasting worth have appeared this year; I hope to read them all eventually. Those that have not yet come my...

Book Reviews (November 1954)

Hope and Disappointment: A Study of French Politics THE DEATH OF THE FOURTH REPUBLIC. By Ronald Mathews. Praeger. $5. By MICHAEL HARRINGTON FRENCH politics are of the stuff that caricatures...

Books (October 1954)

BOOKS Examining the Practical Basis for Foreign Affairs THE REALITIES OF FOREIGN POLICY. By George F. Kennan. Princeton. $2.75. By GEORGE W. JAEGER I N his moving address to the Radcliffe...

Book Reviews (September 1954)

Spenking the Racial Agony of His People TELL FREEDOM. By Peter Abrahams. Knopf. $4. By OANIEL M. FRmDENBERG T HE spate of good books flowing from the Union of South Africa today present a...

Emmanuel Mounier: Tragic Optimist (August 1954)

THE PERSONALIST Emmanuel Mounier: Tragic Optimist MICHAEL HARRINGTON T HE late Emmanuel Mounier was one of the most important Catholic intellectuals in the recent history of France. He...

The Housing Scandal (July 1954)

The Housing Scandal "THE STINKING, DISGRACEFUL MESS EXISTING IN ALMOST EVERY CITY ~ THE PREVALENCE OF SLUM LIVING." MICHAEL HARRINGTON S LUMS, like sin, are a reality which members of Congress...

Books (June 1954)

BOOKS Seeking for the Source of a Long-lost Unity MEDIEVAL ESSAYS. By Christopher Dawson. Sheed & Ward. $3.50. By FREDERICK D. W!LHELMSEN T O explore these Medieval Essays by Christopher...

Books (May 1954)

BOOKS Politics as a Threat to the ART UNDER A DICTATORSHIP. By Hellmut Lehmann-Haupt. Oxford. $5.50. By MICHAEL HARRINGTON T HE relation of art and politics in the twentieth century has...

Books (April 1954)

BOOKS The Search for Present Truth in Recording the Past A HISTORY OF MODERN EUROPEAN PHILOSOPHY. By James Collins. Bruce. $9.75. By MICHAEL HARRINGTON PHILOSOPHY cannot be separated from...

The Ethics of Rebellion (January 1954)

QCc-7)t. "" ~nights" r- nning Y the love'' air. major...

Silence on the Left (October 1953)

Silence on the Left THE NEW DEAL MARKED THE DECLINE OF AMERICAN RADICALISM AS REVOLUTIONARIES TURNED REFORMERS. MICHAEL HARRINGTON We hate this rotten system More than any mortals do; Our aim...

Rights of the Guilty (August 1953)

Rights of the Guilty ' I N COPING WITH THE COMMUNIST THREAT, WE HAVE PERHAPS ENDANGERED OUR SAFETY MORE THAN A SPY COULD EVER DO.' MICHAEL HARRINGTON I N our society, the measure of a free man's...

Ballerina (February 1953)

Ballerina ALICIA MARKOVA, HER LIFE AND ART. By Anton Dolin. Hermitage House. $3.95 By MICHAEL HARRINGTON TRADITION is the very life of ballet. The written poem, the painting, survive objectively;...

Socialism in Transition (January 1953)

H OW does this affect the re-thinking going on in Great Britain? How does it specially involve the Catholic? It affects the attitude of the worker, the union and the consumer in Great...

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