Letters
Editors: It was with great pleasure that I read the fine tribute to Meyer Schapiro in The Artist and the Citizen," by Morris Dickstein. Then to learn on the Editor's Page of the forthcoming...
...The latter phrase reverberates through liberation literature, including Emma Lazarus on the Jew in America, reminding us that Meyer Schapiro was surely one of those "immigrant boys who came to worship" (in Irving Howe's immortal words), and to realize, in his life and work, America's promise...
...1997...
...JOCELYN BRODIE West Townshend, Vt.05359 Crime of the War on Drugs Editors: I was surprised and disappointed that none of the participants in the Fall 1997 Arguments exchanges on crime discussed the role of America's "War on Drugs" as a causal factor in our crime rates, whether up or down...
...1998...
...1998...
...MICHAEL WALZER, On Toleration...
...Stanford University Press...
...Lyrick Publishing, 1998...
...It is also the current excuse for violations of civil rights and applications of excessive force by our police...
...GEORGE PACKER, Central Square...
...In our last issue we neglected to credit Aaron Johnson, who worked as our editorial assistant during the summer...
...1997...
...RANDALL KENNEDY, Race, Crime, and the Law...
...Pantheon Books...
...Never credited to the artist, it is to be hoped some of the quality of the human hand— and mind, signifying the meaning of Dissent—which characterized the original design, might no longer be absent from the new format...
...ANSON RABINBACH, In the Shadow of Catastrophe: German Intellectuals Between Apocalypse and Enlightenment...
...The Brookings Institution...
...1998...
...NICOLAUS MILLS, The Triumph of Meanness: America's War Against Its Better Self, Houghton Mifflin, 1997...
...Verso Books...
...Yale University Press, 1998...
...JO-ANN MORT, ed., The New Union Reader...
...Liberals and conservatives, in both major parties, have argued that a major cause of urban crime is the "War on Drugs...
...Of course, liberals and conservatives have both developed and supported it for eighty years...
...DAVID BROMWICH, ed., Edmund Burke on Politics, Representation, and Empire...
...BRIAN MORTON, Starting Out in the Evening...
...1997...
...GERALD M. SUTLIFF Emeryville, Calif...
...Graywolf...
...The State University of New York Press...
...JIM SLEEPER, Liberal Racism, Viking Press...
...1997...
...Yale University Press...
...University of California Press...
...JAMES B. RULE, Theory and Progress in Social Science...
...Crown Publishers...
...1997...
...Errata We apologize to Steven Vogel ("Grades as Money," Fall 1997) for mangling the title of his book...
...1998...
...Then to learn on the Editor's Page of the forthcoming redesign of the magazine recalled the original cover of Dissent by Gandy Brodie, created at the behest of Meyer Schapiro...
...CAROL O' CLEIREACAIN, The Orphaned Capital: Adopting the Right Revenues for the District of Columbia...
...DENNIS H. WRONG, The Modern Condition: Essays at Century's End...
...It is Against Nature: The Concept of Nature in Critical Theory...
...With regard to the social values of Meyer Schapiro, "hard to reconstruct" from the recently published papers, I have always found the following to be conclusive: "the solidarity of artists with suffering and working humanity presupposes the solidarity of society with artists, but this is not possible until all men and not only the artist are free...
...JOANNE BARKAN, A Tale of Two Sitters...
...1997...
Vol. 45 • January 1998 • No. 1
