Volume 11, Number 1 · July 11, 1968
The New Politics: 1968 and After
By Christopher Lasch
The Radical Liberal: New Man in American Politics
by Arnold S. Kaufman, foreword by Hans J. Morgenthau
Atherton, 169 pp., $5.95
Toward a Democratic Left: A Radical Program for a New Majority
by Michael Harrington
Macmillan, 305 pp., $5.95
The New Left, together with the war in Vietnam, has moved many liberals several degrees leftward; this may be its chief contribution, so far, to American politics. Today the call for a 'new politics' is sounded not only by radicals but by liberals opposed to the war and increasingly alarmed by the breakdown of representative government and the drift toward violence. Even though the Left itself has failed to put together a movement capable of revolutionizing American society, it has communicated to many people a sense of crisis, an awareness of the system's unresponsiveness to their needs, which has turned them from admirers of American democracy into harsh critics.
Review, 4887 words
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