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- Diplomaism: How We Zone People, pp. 2-9 Will America's escalating diploma race exacerbate our social problems?
- The Hard Core in the Private Sector, pp. 10-21 A look at the marriage of convenience (or necessity) between private enterprise and the...
- Massachusetts' Other Rising Star, pp. 22-39 Boston's Mayor Kevin White has succeeded in confronting urban problems at their human s...
- Tea Leaves in the Sink, pp. 40-49 Have speechwriters caused public officials to neglect the hard discipline of thinking?
- The Concept: An Answer to Addiction?, pp. 50-62 New York City's controversial attempt to treat drug addiction through existential encou...
- [+]Book Review (Review) , pp. 63-68One leading thinker of the New Left comments on another--and on the movement itself.
- The Agony of the American Left by Christopher Lasch
- Letters, p. 69
- The Missing Ambassador, pp. 70-74 The State Department's many views of China and how they might begin to be resolved into...
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May 1969 Issue - 9 ArticlesBooksThe Culture of Bureaucracy- Diplomaism: How We Zone People, pp. 2-9
- Letters, p. 4
- Kenya and Tanzania: Developmental Contrast, pp. 5-12 A former aide to Robert Kennedy examines two models of development in East Africa and o...
- Obiter Dicta, p. 13 1. Congressman Stubblefield on tobacco. 2. Senator Fulbright on dissent.
- Behind the Scenes and Under the Rug, pp. 14-22 The Douglas Commission's life and hard times. Starring: the American city. Featuring: P...
- The Cost of Cowardice: Silence in the Foreign Service, pp. 23-29 What happens when good men (Foreign Service Officers) don't speak up. Why they don't.
- The Cost of Courage: The Loneliest Man in the Pentagon, pp. 30-34 What happens when a good man (A. E. Fitzgerald) speaks up. Why he did.
- Crossed Wires: Cable TV and the Public Interest, pp. 35-47 Cable television, and its promise of diversity for the viewer, raises complex questions...
- Memo of the Month, pp. 48-49 If he hollers, let him go.
- The Committee Revisited, pp. 50-54 The debut of the new House Internal Security Committee (nee Un-American Activities), as...
- [+]Pounding the Pavement (Review) , pp. 55-57Road to Ruin, by A.Q. Mowbray
- Road to Ruin by A.Q. Mowbray
- [+]The Arms of Kuss (Review) , pp. 58-61The War Business, by George Thayer
- The War Business by George Thayer
- [+]Up the Spleenwort (Review) , pp. 62-64America the Raped, by Gene Marine
- America the Raped by Gene Marine
July 1969 Issue - 12 ArticlesThe Culture of BureaucracyBooks- Letters, pp. 2-7
- Where Will You Be When the Lights Go Out-Again?, pp. 8-22 Why, four years after the Northeast Blackout, our corporate and governmental institutio...
- The Stupidity of Intelligence, pp. 23-33 If four planes all bomb one line of vehicles and each pilot claims that he destroyed fo...
- The Impotent School Board, pp. 34-50 Teacher militancy, as well as wider community pressures, raise the question of whether ...
- Memo of the Month, pp. 51-52 Fog did not stay this memo from the swift completion of its appointed rounds.
- The Right to Speak Out from Within, pp. 53-57 When can a government employee criticize his agency? What the courts say.
- The Burnt-Out and the Bored, pp. 58-62 An authority on aging and the human mind puts forth a heresy: he proposes desegregation...
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September 1969 Issue - 8 ArticlesThe Culture of Bureaucracy- Letters, pp. 4-7
- Jamie Whitten: The Permanent Secretary of Agriculture, pp. 8-19 How one Congressman from Mississippi uses his power as chairman of an appropriations su...
- New Towns: Can They Work?, pp. 20-25 Urban planners are beginning to love New Towns today the way they loved Model Cities ye...
- National Security: Are We Asking the Right Questions?, pp. 26-31 What kind of military force is the United States willing to use, and under what circums...
- Memo of the Month, p. 32 Dear Old Golden Rule Days
- Analyzing Presidents: from Passive-Positive (Taft) to Active-Negative (Nixon), pp. 33-54 How well can we predict a President's behavior from the way he emerged into adulthood? ...
- Shakedown Cruise: Paul Hall Looks to the Presidency (of the AFL-CIO), pp. 55-59 With the unsung help (and welcome cash) of foreign sailors, Paul Hall has become labor'...
- The Making of a Majority: Safeguard and the Senate, pp. 60-74 The comprehensive--and thus far untold--story of the tactics and pressures that gave th...
October 1969 Issue - 8 Articles- Flim-Flam, Double-Talk and Hustle:The Urban-Problems Industry, pp. 6-16 An insider's look into the Urban-Industrial Complex, where studies produce money and mo...
- The Blue Cross We Bear, pp. 17-26 While its rates rise by leaps and bounds, Blue Cross takes a supine role when it comes ...
- Easy Rider: A Solution to the Commuter Crisis, pp. 27-31 Consider one urban crisis solved. Here, an advocate preaches what he practices: quick, ...
- The Loyalty Program: A Case for Termination, pp. 32-41 The loyalty-security program, born in 1947 out of fear that government employees would ...
- The Culture of Bureaucracy:An Ambassador's Rebuttal, pp. 42-49 The U.S. Ambassador to Nicaragua responds to a previous article about the Foreign Servi...
- CBW: Policy By Default, pp. 50-57 The story of how America's CBW policy drifted into being when (and because) no one was ...
- [+]From Clean to Antiseptic (Review) , pp. 58-60The Year of the People, by Eugene J. McCarthy
- The Year of the People by Eugene J. McCarthy
- [+]Reprivatization: The Nixon Bettle Cry? (Review) , pp. 61-68The Age of Discontinuity, by Peter F. Drucker
- The Age of Discontinuity by Peter F. Drucker
- Freedom of Choice Desegregation:The Southern Reality, pp. 69-82 A native son's fresh and intimate look at non-desegregation in rural Georgia and how it...
November 1969 Issue - 9 ArticlesBooks- Flim-Flam, Double-Talk and Hustle:The Urban-Problems Industry, pp. 6-16
- Letters, pp. 6-11
- Can We Survive?, pp. 12-21 California as an example of the environmental crisis. A leading ecologist explains why ...
- Memo of the Month, pp. 22-23 Camouflage on Capitol Hill
- Exit, Voice, and Loyalty, pp. 24-31 When your organization shows signs of deterioration, you can, to borrow Erik Erikson's ...
- Revolt at Justice, pp. 32-40 When your organization is the Department of Justice, and it sacrifices clear legal mand...
- Rebuke at Hew, pp. 41-45 Why Robert Finch's ill-founded public rebuke of Dr. Verrett in the cyclamate affair is ...
- The Only Alternative-A Reply to President Nixon on Vietnam, pp. 46-58 Does our face need to be saved? Is "precipitate withdrawal" the only alternative? The a...
- Generation Gap, p. 59 Statistics from the Department of Defense.
- Tax Resistance:Hell, No-I Won't Pay, pp. 60-65 The authors explore a peaceful last resort for those who feel they have exhausted all o...
- One Man, No Vote, pp. 66-67 The authors explore a peaceful last resort for those who feel they have exhausted all o...
- Polarize Or Persuade, pp. 68-74 A progress report from the man who brought down Johnson. While yesterday's heresies hav...
- [+]Book Review (Review) , pp. 75-82As gloom deepens concerning government's ability to govern, a top Bureau of the Budget ...
December 1969 Issue - 12 ArticlesThe Culture of BureaucracyBooks- Letters, pp. 4-9
- The Oldest Established Permanent Floating Anachronism on the Sea, pp. 10-23 Attack aircraft carriers, the glory ships of World War II, are obsolescent. Why does th...
- What Happened to the Class Struggle?, pp. 24-29 The big corporations and the big unions no longer struggle. They cooperate. Since the r...
- Spocklash: Age, Sex, and Revolution, pp. 30-43 The author explains the revolt of Dr. Spock's babies and invites their mothers to anoth...
- Zen Pong and Open Government, pp. 44-48 There is dissent within the bureaucracy. But the public seldom finds out about it until...
- New Haven: Triumph and Trouble in Model City, pp. 49-62 In the days of minimum feasible participation, Mayor Richard Lee devised an establishme...
- Memo of the Month, p. 63 Semper Paratus at the NLRB.
- Locking the Barn Door: Secretary Shultz and the Miners, pp. 64-71 An examination of why the Labor Department did not involve itself in the United Mine Wo...
- The Philippines: America's Former(?) Colony, pp. 72-82 For the first time since it regained its independence in 1946, the Philippines has a tw...
February 1970 Issue - 9 ArticlesThe Culture of Bureaucracy- Beyond Welfare Reform: An End to Demeaning Work, pp. 4-10 President Nixon, of all people, is taking the first step toward freeing us all from the...
- The Secret Team and the Games They Play, pp. 11-19 Maybe the military doesn't run the country after all. But the alternative--the CIA and ...
- Census '70: Power to the Suburbs, pp. 20-25 Thanks to one-man, one-vote, suburban numbers will quickly become legislative votes. Wh...
- Crime in the Courts: Assembly Line Justice, pp. 26-40 Supreme Court rulings are remote from the daily grind of courts in which both society a...
- The Culture of BureaucracyI'm Glad You Asked That Question, pp. 41-42 How to answer a Congressman without getting caught on any side of the issue.
- Messiah from the Midwest?, pp. 43-54 Harold Hughes is attracting the attention of the leaderless left. A view of his rise in...
- The Faults of Fault Insurance, pp. 55-60 Auto insurance could protect you better at half the price. Why pay more?
- Memo of the Month, pp. 61-62 Wrapping up the programming package.
- Military Dictatorships: Why Rockefeller's Wrong, pp. 63-68 Latin America's "New Military Man" is not so new, nor will he make a good developing ne...
- Dean Burch Watches Television, pp. 69-82 The Administration's man at the FCC doesn't like obscenity. "Dissent" may be the dirtie...
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May 1970 Issue - 11 ArticlesThe Culture of Bureaucracy- Beyond Welfare Reform: An End to Demeaning Work, pp. 4-10
- Letters, p. 4
- The Cover, pp. 5-9
- Whitewashing Detroit's Dirty Engine, pp. 10-21 The White House: "We know the industry's lying. And they know we know, and we know they...
- The Great Helium Bubble, pp. 22-29 Lots of resources need saving. Not helium. That's what we're saving.
- The Great Wind Machine, pp. 30-40 One way to lower our voices: Abolish the U.S. Information Agency.
- Research Now, Action Later, pp. 41-49 Under the new Administration, the anti-poverty effort is conceived as a testing ground-...
- The Plot Against Law Reform, pp. 50-59 Under the new Administration, the anti-poverty effort is conceived as a testing ground-...
- Politics in the Peace Corps, pp. 60-61 Censored.
- Nobody Covers the House, pp. 62-69 If the press showed the warts and the smiles on the Representatives' faces, the public ...
- The Machine Democrats, pp. 70-73 If the press showed the warts and the smiles on the Representatives' faces, the public ...
- Memo of the Month, p. 74 The earliest possible moment.
- Mores of Protest, pp. 75-83 Voice and exit at HEW: How they told Nixon they didn't like the firing of Leon Panetta.
- The Political Puzzle, pp. 84-86
June 1970 Issue - 13 ArticlesWhatever Happened to OEO?Obstacles to Reforming Congress:The Culture of Bureaucracy- Letters, pp. 4-5
- Atomic Power Abuse.The AEC in Colorado, pp. 6-14 We'll tell you about the risks ( ) We'll tell you what we're doing ( ) We know what we'...
- The Marginal Utilities, pp. 15-22 After 20 years of struggling to promote nuclear energy as the safe and economical comin...
- The Political Puzzle, pp. 23-27
- Pollution Porkbarrel: Down to Earth on Earth Day, pp. 28-31 In which we learn that industry has discovered the brighter side of pollution. So have ...
- Paying for Nato, pp. 32-38 It's about time, the Senator says, for our European allies to begin picking up their fa...
- Violence and Masculinity, pp. 39-48 Streetcorner battles, making women, and making war flow from the single urge to dominat...
- Conus Revisited: The Army Covers Up, pp. 49-58 The Army is still spying on civilian politics. The man who first exposed the military's...
- Memo of the Month, pp. 59-60
- Renewal in New York: The State Tries Its Hand, pp. 61-67 For all its innovative powers, New York's new super development agency is having a hard...
- Dia: Intelligence to Please, pp. 68-75 Are we "winning" or "losing"? The Defense Intelligence Agency will tailor evidence to p...
- [+]Book Review (Review) , pp. 76-82Look on these memoirs and beware.
- Public Works: A Dangerous Trade by Robert Moses
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July 1970 Issue - 13 ArticlesThe Culture of BureaucracyBooks- Letters, pp. 4-6
- The Political Puzzle, p. 7
- Red, White, Blue, and Gold: The Oil Import Quotas, pp. 8-18 A case history in economic addiction: how oil got hooked on government welfare, notably...
- Freedom on a String, pp. 19-23 Since 1736, if not earlier, governments have been putting down the humble kite.
- The Politics of Peace, pp. 24-47 In his first published analysis of the peace movement, the organizer of Students-for- M...
- Claude Pepper's Crime Stoppers, pp. 48-53 Slam! Bang! Zap! The House Select Committee on Crime proves it is possible, even with a...
- Memo of the Month, p. 54
- The Culture of Bureaucracy: Washington's Other Crime Problem, pp. 55-66 Government persistently breaks the law because it's easier that way and no one who matt...
August 1970 Issue - 8 Articles- Letters, pp. 2-3
- Running Against Growth in Hawaii, pp. 4-11 Thomas Gill is running for governor this year--against the tourist boom. And he may win.
- The Political Puzzle, p. 12
- Congress and Pollution: The Gentleman's Agreement, pp. 13-20 The structure of Congress and its members' fear of the growth establishment guarantee ...
- The New Agrarians, pp. 21-27 The life of an old Georgia farm hand is an argument against the new agrarians.
- The Ritual of Wiggle: From Ruin to Reelection, pp. 28-44 The disgraced Congressman may squirm for awhile, but he soon laughs again if he follows...
- Eating Lunch at Henry's - Eating Crow at Mike's, pp. 45-51 The Cambridge 13 bid farewell to their old colleague, Henry Kissinger, and take up rel...
- The Kids Will Be More Than Just Younger, pp. 52-53 If 18-year-olds vote in 1972, the new voters will make up one-fifth of the electorate. ...
- Israel's Peril: Our Military-Industrial Bubble, pp. 54-57 We have little or nothing of military use to Israel--one of the ironies of the military...
- Memo of the Month, pp. 58-59
- Clots in the System, pp. 60-66 Blood planning moves slowly, if at all, through the hardened arteries of HEW.
September 1970 Issue - 11 ArticlesTo Grow Or Not to Grow: Pollution and PovertyThe Harvard Brain TrustThe Culture of Bureaucracy- Letters, pp. 4-5
- Up Against the Barbecue: Smithtown Middle America, pp. 6-16 People are confused, bitter and afraid in Smithtown, Long Island. An invisible enemy th...
- The Floating Plantation, pp. 17-20 How the Navy floats on Filipino labor.
- Memo of the Month, p. 21
- Richard Nixon, the Last Liberal, pp. 22-33 Richard Nixon embodies the liberal values that have built America on Horatio Alger's sh...
- Civil Defense: The Case for Nuclear War, pp. 34-46 A nuclear attack on the U.S. would have its advantages. Civil Defense planners, and man...
- Superman, Our Textbook President, pp. 47-54 Our textbooks both further and reflect the popular myth that Presidents are all-powerfu...
- Views of the Press: The Sell-Out of the Pulitzer Prize, pp. 55-60 Noted columnists and newspapers saw truth in the Pentagon press releases and propaganda...
- [+]Book Review (Review) , pp. 61-64Out of the sterile, suburban paradise comes expansive man--the over-30, inspired, cultu...
- The Radical Suburb by John Berk Orr and F. Patrick Nichelson
- The Political Puzzle, pp. 65-66
October 1970 Issue - 10 ArticlesBooks- Letters, pp. 4-7
- We're All Working for the Penn Central, pp. 8-22
- Oily Reprints at the Times, pp. 23-28 The oil industry needed a little help this year to beat back challenges to import quota...
- Moral Ostrichism: Blindness on a Bank Board, pp. 29-34 How boards of directors refuse responsibility for their own associations.
- The Assault of Sound, pp. 35-43 One listener's efforts to stop the symphony of insanity that shortens tempers, blows mi...
- Gilbert Fitzhugh's Golden Fleece, pp. 44-55 The Administration's Fitzhugh Report on defense spending is a whitewash, says the man w...
- Memo of the Month, p. 56
- [+]Beyond Cleaver (Review) , pp. 57-64The education of George Jackson, a black man who learned in California prisons the nat...
- Soledad Brother by George Jackson #2, Jean Genet, and Jonathan Jackson, ...
- The Political Puzzle, pp. 65-66
November 1970 Issue - 9 ArticlesThe Culture of Bureaucracy:Views of the PressBooks- Letters, pp. 4-8
- The Political Puzzle, p. 9
- What's Good for the Country is Good for GM, pp. 10-19 Large corporations form a fourth branch of government, often as powerful and more auto...
- Clean Thoughts and Dirty Water, pp. 20-23 The Washington Post deplores pollution, while its paper mill daily pours 180 tons of n...
- You Can't Keep a Deadly Weapon Down, pp. 24-27 Hopes that the U.S. was putting a stop to chemical and biological warfare production a...
- Tac Nukes: A More Personal Delivery, pp. 28-34 Recent calculations of U.S. nuclear capability leave out more than 7,000 tactical weapo...
- When Tiny Tim Gives to Scrooge, pp. 35-37 The banks are the true guardians of the holiday spirit. What the Christmas Club deposit...
- Gay is Good For Us All, pp. 38-49 The new sexual revolution promises to free the white, male heterosexual king from the o...
- Colonizing Paradise, pp. 50-58 If you think overt racism is confined to the South, consider how Department of Interior...
- Memo of the Month, p. 59
- [+]A Review of Three Books on Africa (3 Reviews) , pp. 60-66Our South Africa policy flounders amidst moral indignation, economic commitments and fe...
- Africa for the Africans by G. Mennen Williams
- The Great Powers and Africa by Waldemar A. Nielsen
- The High Price of Principles by Richard S. Hall
December 1970 Issue - 11 ArticlesViews of the PressThe Hidden Arsenal- Letters, p. 2
- The Ordeal of Legal Services, pp. 3-22 The definitive, behind-the-scenes report of OEO guerrilla warfare: how Don Rumsfeld got...
- Reserves and Guard: A More Selective Service, pp. 23-30 Aside from helping the privileged avoid the draft, the Reserves and National Guard exh...
- Blaming the Victim, pp. 31-36 Psychiatrists and social scientists practice, a la Moynihan, the refined bigotry of bla...
- Memo of the Month, p. 37
- Ben Yellen's Fine Madness, pp. 38-49 How one man with a mimeograph machine threatens to bring down all the big growers and c...
- FDA: The Sugar-Coated, Polyunresponsive, Indigestible Placebo, pp. 50-58 The FDA melts in the hands of the food industry, while the industry feeds us on advert...
- [+]Book Review (Review) , pp. 59-64Lifton may think this is an activist, volatile age, but all the frenzy disguises a grow...
- Boundaries by Robert Jay Lifton
- The Political Puzzle, pp. 65-66
January 1971 Issue - 9 ArticlesBooks- Letters, pp. 4-7 Barry Goldwater on the Reserves and Guard. Paul Ignatius on The Washington Post's pollu...
- James Marcus: Out of the Reservoir and up the River, pp. 8-22 How James Marcus got his percentage of the take. An inside guide to the many hands unde...
- The Pain of Saying Good-By is Enough - The Anguish of Losing office, pp. 23-25 The pain of saying good-by is enough The Anguish of Losing Office to explain why men w...
- America's Time Traps:The Youth Cult, the Work Prison, the Emptiness of Age, pp. 26-37 Why it's not too early or too late to quit school if you don't want to be there, or le...
- Memo of the Month, p. 38
- Ecology Denied: The Unmaking of a Majority, pp. 39-43 If you think there is mass support for ecology, consider how Washington state voters w...
- The Inscrutable Commitment, pp. 44-54 Sophocles Hero, Admiral Chew, Colonel Tweedie, and a lawyer named Krashes explain to a...
- The One-Eyed Watchdog of Congress, pp. 55-60 The General Accounting Office, Congress' watchdog, was blinded by its master. Now it g...
- Reports, pp. 61-64
- The Political Puzzle., pp. 65-66
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February 1971 Issue - 11 ArticlesThe Culture of Bureaucracy- Letters, pp. 4-7
- Letters, pp. 4-6
- The Interlake Affair, pp. 7-17 How five agencies couldn't stop the pollution flow from one drain.
- America the Featherbedded, pp. 18-23 We grow up wanting interesting, useful, 18 and human work. Too many of us get a phony j...
- Memo of the Month, p. 24
- The Rising Profits of Public Service, pp. 25-32 Government salaries at the top levels have doubled since 1962, making disinterested pub...
- Political Book Award, p. 33
- [+]The Prince and His Courtiers (3 Reviews) , pp. 34-45At the White House, the Kremlin, and the Reichschancellery
- The Twilight of the Presidency by George E. Reedy
- Inside the Third Reich by Albert Speer
- Khrushchev Remembers: The Last Testament by Nikita S. Khrushchev, Edward Crankshaw, and Strobe Talbott, ...
- The Politics of Poetry, pp. 46-53
- The Political Puzzle, p. 54
- A Congressional Garden of Verse, pp. 55-58
- [+]The Diplomacy of Intervention and Extrication (Review) , pp. 59-66The Lost Crusade, by Chester L. Cooper
- The Lost Crusade by Chester L. Cooper
March 1971 Issue - 11 ArticlesSpecial Book Section- Letters, pp. 2-3
- Introduction, pp. 4-7
- Maximizing Cobra Utilization, pp. 8-12 Viet Cong activity in Bac Lieu province was minimal until IV Corps found themselves wi...
- The Vietnamization of Cambodia, pp. 13-16 The Cambodian invasion has created one million refugees and possibly another Vietnam.
- No Victory Parades, pp. 17-24 Veterans bring the war home with them. What they thought while there. What they think ...
- The Burn Ward, pp. 25-35 The price.
- Monopoly With Real Money, pp. 36-43 No one claims to be for monopoly, but the giants proceed under full sail as the economy...
- America's Respectable Crime Problem, pp. 44-52 Everybody loves a swindler--as long as he dresses in a three-piece suit.
- Memo of the Month, pp. 53-54
- O. Roy Chalk: Leonardo Or Otis B. Driftwood?, pp. 55-63 The madcap adventures of a one-man conglomerate-- and how the cookie is crumbling.
- Political Book Notes, pp. 64-66
April 1971 Issue - 11 ArticlesSpecial Indochina SectionCorporate Irresponsibility- Letters, pp. 4-5
- The Electronic Battlefield: Strangelove's Answer to War Crimes, pp. 6-16 Through the Automated Battlefield, already in use in Vietnam, soldiers will be replaced...
- The Dairy Lobby Buys the Cream of the Congress, p. 17 A $ 1-million investment in some very sur- 17 prising congressmen and senators may prod...
- Memo of the Month, pp. 18-22
- Courage Without Esteem: Profiles in Whistle-Blowing, pp. 23-43 Speaking out for the public good can be disastrous for the private good--but six people...
- Sex, Work, and Motivation in Castro's Cuba, pp. 44-53 Conscience cuts the cane in Cuba-- at least some of the time. How the Cubans take to wo...
- [+]Book Notes (9 Reviews) , pp. 54-55America the Dutiful, by Philip W. Quigg
- America the Dutiful by Philip W. Quigg
- Blacks, Medical Schools, and Society by James L. Curtis
- The C-5A Scandal by Berkeley Rice
- The Cruel Choice by Denis Goulet
- High School by Ronald Gross and Paul Osterman
- Income Distribution by Jan Pen
- Soldiers Without Enemies by Larry L. Fabian
- The Southern Strategy by Reg Murphy and Hal Gulliver
- The Sunshine Soldiers by Peter Tauber
- [+]Book Review (Review) , pp. 56-66Leaving it all to the kids may be the best way to keep educational "relevance' a catchw...
- The Soft Revolution by Neil Postman and Charles Weingartner
May 1971 Issue - 8 ArticlesBooks- Letters, p. 5
- Busting Our Mental Blocks on Drugs and Crime, pp. 6-19 If we want to reduce crime dramatically and treat addicts humanely, it's time to open o...
- The Stories Reporters Don't Write, pp. 20-27 Because they are either prisoners of their sources or prisoners of the news--two closel...
- Kennedy Center: Brand Name Culture in Another Rayburn Building, pp. 28-36 A blot at the intersection of politics, culture, and money, the Kennedy Center is to ar...
- Fighting Seniority with Bigotry, pp. 37-42 Liberal reformers have adopted age prejudice as a weapon to clean up Congress. Getting ...
- The Conference Committee: Congress' Final Filter, pp. 43-48 Conference committees are supposed to resolve discrepancies between House and Senate ve...
- Memo of the Month, pp. 49-50
- How to Make $300,000 a Year After Bankruptcy, pp. 51-54 Most bankrupts with over $20 million in debts lose all their assets, but not if their n...
- The Political Puzzle, p. 55
- [+]Book Review (2 Reviews) , pp. 56-62These two books have sold a lot of copies, but they don't explain how Mayor Daley manag...
- Boss: Richard J. Daley of Chicago by Mike Royko
- Daley of Chicago by William Francis Gleason
- [+]Political Book Notes (4 Reviews) , pp. 63-66America, Inc., by Morton Mintz and Jerry S. Cohen
- America, Inc. by Morton Mintz and Jerry S. Cohen
- America's Black Congressmen by Maurine Christopher
- The Case for Participatory Democracy by C. George Benello and Dimitri Roussopoulos
- Revolution Next Door by Gary MacEoin
June 1971 Issue - 11 ArticlesViews of the PressBooks- Letters, p. 2
- The Case Against Foundations, pp. 3-18 Foundations live on nostalgia, tax breaks, and the illusion that they are socially inn...
- Publishing Conglomerated: When Profits Become Censor, pp. 19-26 Conglomerates have devoured the most independent industry in the country. What happens...
- Memo of the Month, p. 27
- The Wild Blue Yonder Over Laos, pp. 28-44 An automated war that drops 200,000 pounds of bombs an hour on civilians in Indochina a...
- The Vested Oracles: How Industry Regulates Government, pp. 45-53 The government's Industry Advisory Committees do much more than advise.
- The Rise of the Small State, pp. 54-55 Senators from small states have a better chance of reelection, an advantage that spells...
- Muskie: A Sketch From the Inside, pp. 56-62 Abraham Lincoln changed as president. That is our only hope for Muskie, says a former s...
- Political Puzzle, p. 63
- [+]Book Notes (4 Reviews) , pp. 64-66A Citizen's Guide to Legal Rights, by J. Shane Creamer
- A Citizen's Guide to Legal Rights by J. Shane Creamer
- The Court-Martial of Lt. Calley by Richard Hammer
- The Politics of City Revenue by Arnold J. Meltsner
- The Radical Left and American Foreign Policy by Robert W. Tucker
July 1971 Issue - 10 ArticlesPolitical Numbers- Letters, pp. 2-5
- Cooing Down the War: The Senate's Lame Doves, pp. 6-20 How committed are the knights of peace? Surprises behind the trick mirror.
- Testimony from the War's Trigger End, p. 21 The recoil from the Galley trial, through veterans' eyes. Implications of killing as a ...
- Memo of the Month, pp. 21-35
- H. R. Gross: The Conscience of Uncle Sucker, pp. 36-44 The congressman from Waterloo, Iowa, plays cribbage and fights government's slouch towa...
- Political Puzzle, p. 45
- Striking Out on Your Own, pp. 46-53 For those who dream of breaking away to write the great American novel or to start a li...
- The International Screw Thread Commission, pp. 54-56 Like Tennyson's brook, the screw thread people run on forever. From the genius of Warre...
- [+]Book Review (2 Reviews) , pp. 57-63Each book predicts doom if we heed the other.
- Man and Atom by Glenn T. Seaborg and William R. Corliss
- Poisoned Power by John W. Gofman and Arthur R. Tamplin
- [+]Political Book Notes (2 Reviews) , pp. 64-66Reapportionment in the 1970s, by Nelson Polsby
- Reapportionment in the 1970s by Nelson Polsby
- With Justice for Some by Bruce Wasserstein and Mark J. Green
August 1971 Issue - 10 ArticlesBooks- Letters, pp. 5-10
- The Terms of Tenure, pp. 11-16 What you give up to get it.
- Chronic Epistilitis, pp. 17-19 If you want action from your tax dollar, get your congressman to ask the government a q...
- Agribusiness:Overkill on the Farm, pp. 20-39 20 Jamie Whitten, nerve gas herbicides, and the fire ant star in the Nader Report on go...
- The Twilight Zone of Government, pp. 40-47 Like the new Post Office, the New York Port Authority was put above politics so it cou...
- Memo of the Month, p. 48
- Nationalizing the South, pp. 49-51 The urban South is becoming more urban than southern.
- Political Puzzle, p. 52
- Aid to Brazil: From Dungeons to Disneyland, pp. 53-61 Our men in Brazil report to Senator Frank Church: torture aside, things are looking fine.
- [+]Political Book Notes (2 Reviews) , pp. 62-66Blue-collar Workers, by Sar A. Levitan
- Blue-collar Workers by Sar A. Levitan
- Toward a Rational Power Policy by Neil Fabricant and Robert M. Hallman
September 1971 Issue - 10 ArticlesPolitical NumbersReports- Letters, pp. 5-7
- Is Camelot Dead? A New Look at John Kennedy, pp. 8-19 The man behind the waning reputation.
- The Political Puzzle, p. 20
- Israel: Yesterday's Hero, pp. 21-32 What does a Zionist do after Zion is established? The generation after the founders, h...
- The Screwing of the Average Man, pp. 33-39 Every day in every way you get taken.
- Not When They Did Him Like That, pp. 40-48 Urban problems in the flesh.
- Memo of the Month, p. 49
- The Odd Couple: Ellsberg and Otepka, pp. 50-60 Conscience made both break security Ellsberg and Otepka rules, one to applause from th...
- [+]Political Book Notes (19 Reviews) , pp. 61-66Choice and the Politics of Allocation, by David Ernest Apter
- Choice and the Politics of Allocation by David Ernest Apter
- Essays in International Economics by J. Marcus Fleming
- For Peace and Justice by Charles Chatfield
- The Game of the Foxes by Ladislas Farago
- The Great American Bomb Machine by Roger Rapoport
- The Injury Industry and the Remedy of No-Fault Insurance by Jeffrey O'Connell
- Kennedy Justice by Victor S. Navasky
- Managing Large Systems by Leonard R. Sayles
- H.L. Mencken by Douglas C. Stenerson
- The Police and the Public by Albert J. Reiss, Jr.
- Problems of Knowledge and Freedom by Noam Chomsky
- The Presidency by Dale Vinyard
- Red Man's Land/White Man's Law by Wilcomb E. Washburn
- Religion and the Rise of the American City by Carroll Smith-Rosenberg
- The Rights We Have by Osmond K. Fraenkel
- Think Tanks by Paul Dickson
- The UN and the Palestinian Refugees by Edward H. Buehrig
- Wage Restraint by Lloyd Ulman and Robert J. Flanagan
- Word Politics: Verbal Strategy Among the Superpowers by Thomas M. Franck and Edward Weisband
October 1971 Issue - 9 Articles- Letters, pp. 4-5
- Tragedy in Bengal: The Role of U. S. Foreign Policy, pp. 6-18 The United States is abetting genocide in Pakistan. A journey to the refugee camps we h...
- Party Alignment: The Biggest Shift in 40 Years, pp. 19-21 Political parties undergo major transformations every 40 years. What's in store for '72.
- The Roosevelts: Their Personal War on Poverty, pp. 22-37 The Roosevelts build an experimental town in Appalachia. An engaging tale showing how c...
- Political Puzzle, p. 38
- The Wall Street Treatment, pp. 39-46 Small investors return to the market like lemmings. How they get soaked.
- Memo of the Month, p. 47
- The Unnatural Gas Case, pp. 48-61 How one pipeline has run around the Supreme Court for 14 years. With new friends like W...
- [+]Political Book Notes (21 Reviews) , pp. 62-66Alienation and Economics, by Walter A. Weisskopf
- Alienation and Economics by Walter A. Weisskopf
- The American Left by Loren Baritz
- Blacks in America by James McPherson
- Blacks in the City by Guichard Parris and Leslie Brooks
- Dams and Other Disasters by Arthur Ernest Morgan
- Face and Shadow by Judah Stampfer
- The Failure of Independent Liberalism, 1930-1941 by R. Alan Lawson
- Financing Presidential Campaigns by Delmer D. Dunn
- The Future of Work and Leisure by Stanley Robert Parker
- Henry Ford and Grass-Roots America by Reynold M. Wik
- If They Come in the Morning... by Angela Y. Davis and Ruchell Magee
- Manpower for Development by Eli Ginzberg
- A Name for Ourselves by Paul Potter
- Pan-Africanism or Communism? by George Padmore
- The Political Consequences of Electoral Laws by Douglas W. Rae
- The Politics of Riot Commissions, 1917-1970 by Anthony M. Platt
- Retirement in American Society by Gordon Franklin Streib
- Riding the Storm, 1956-1959 by Harold MacMillan
- Selling Death by Thomas Whiteside
- A Special Interest by Leonard Greenbaum
- Water Wasteland by David Zwick and Marcy Benstock
November 1971 Issue - 9 ArticlesPolitical NumbersThe Screwing of The Average Man
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