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Bundy Sees Dangerous Weakness In Present System of Government

Posted on March 13, 1968 (December 9, 2018)

McGeorge Bundy warned yesterday that the “existing system of government in the United States, already dangerously weak, needs a double dose of reinforcement–to meet both its present and future responsibilities.” He was delivering this year’s second Godkin Lecture. Recognizing the present weakness at all levels of government–state and local as well as legislative and judiciary, […]

An Argument From Self-Interest

Posted on March 8, 1968 (November 30, 2020)

ATTACKING the immorality and illegality of the Vietnam war could conceivably shame people into stopping it but this is unlikely. Human beings are remarkably impervious to the calls of conscience when acting on self-interest. The most fruitful argument, then, is one that attempts to show that the American interest is not, in fact, advanced by […]

The War Economy

Posted on February 24, 1968 (August 22, 2020)

THE President’s Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders (read Riots Commission) will probably recommend, unsurprisingly, that up to $20 billion be spent in the cities over the next five years. Skeptics have doubted that such large outlays will ever materialize. They reason that the health of the economy as a whole depends on such heavy Federal […]

Dylan Gets Religion

Posted on February 7, 1968 (December 1, 2020)

THE Dylan of John Wesley Harding appears touched with grace. The snarling pieties of Highway 61 Revisited, the lucid and patient degeneration in Blonde on Blonde, seem to have been blotted from his memory. Instead, Dylan reaches further into his past for a starting point–and only a starting-point. The new album is a unique and […]

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Posts by Salahdin Imam

Bundy Sees Dangerous Weakness In Present System of Government

An Argument From Self-Interest

The War Economy

Dylan Gets Religion