Volume 5, Number 4 · September 30, 1965
Democratic Vistas
By Christopher Lasch
The Crossroads Papers
edited by Hans J. Morgenthau
Norton, 279 pp., $5.50
Seeds of Liberation
edited by Paul Goodman
Braziller, 551 pp., $7.50
Hans Morgenthau, in his Introduction to The Crossroads Papers, a volume of essays initiated by Americans for Democratic Action, delineates a problem with which contemporary political analysis might well begin. 'The abdication of political will on the part of the electorate is duplicated by the abdication of political leadership.' The great issues of the day—especially those involving foreign relations—present themselves to ordinary people as questions too remote and too abstract to elicit strong feelings and opinions. Political leaders then cite public indifference as an excuse for drifting along with policies which long ago proved to be inadequate. 'How can the gap be bridged between these great issues and our modes of thought and action?'
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