| LETTERS | 2 |
| Book, Baran's | |
| A First Word on Sputnik | 3 |
| Howe, Irving | |
| Hard Hearts and Empty Heads | 6 |
| Hausknecht, Murray | |
| Prosperity Without Welfare | 9 |
| Brand, H. | |
| Pop Culture and Kitsch Criticism | 14 |
| Rosenberg, Harold | |
| Socialism as Problem and Ideal Socialism and Social Classes | 20 |
| Philip, André | |
| Confessions of an Old-Timer | 32 |
| Rabasseire, Henri | |
| Power and the State | 43 |
| Ricoeur, Paul | |
| Party Machines and Democragy | 50 |
| Silone, Ignazio | |
| Germany: Doubts and Dilemmas | 55 |
| Abendroth, Wolfgang | |
| Djilas and Bismarckian Socialism | 61 |
| Harrington, Michael | |
| Millenarians, Totalitarians, Utopians | 67 |
| Coser, Lewis | |
| Reflections on Hipterism -An Exchange of Views | 73 |
| Mailer, Norman & Polsky, Ned & Malaquais, Jean | |
| Our Best Journalist | 82 |
| Goodman, Paul | |
| But What About the Underdeveloped Countries? | 89 |
| Eckstein, George | |
| Why Anxiety? | 91 |
| Spinrad, William | |
| INDEX, 1956-1957 | 93 |
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