Volume 16, Number 2 · February 11, 1971
Wild Bunch
By Hans J. Morgenthau
Naïve Questions about War and Peace
by William Whitworth
Norton, 126 pp., $4.95
The Tuesday Cabinet
by Henry F. Graff
Prentice-Hall, 200 pp., $6.95
Alliance Politics
by Richard E. Neustadt
Columbia, 167 pp., $5.95
Alternative to Armageddon
by Col. Wesley W. Yale, by Gen. I.D. White, by Gen. Hasso E. von Manteuffel
Rutgers, 280 pp., $9.00
Militarism, U.S.A.
by Col. James A. Donovan, written in cooperation with Gen. David Shoup
Scribner's, 265 pp., $6.95
It may appear banal to assert once again that America is in the throes of a crisis—or rather a series of crises—more threatening to its survival as a civilized society and a liberal, democratic polity than any previous ones have been. Yet the government, whose legitimacy rests upon its willingness and ability to protect us from the dangers that threaten us, prefers manipulating the politics of these dangers to confronting their substance. For if the administration were to do the latter, it would inevitably have to undertake a transformation of our domestic and foreign policies that would be unprecedented in its radicalism. Yet the government is forced by its political philosophy and interests to avert its gaze and to act as though these problems did not exist at all, or had been artificially created by some misguided small minorities (whom the police will control).
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