The Mai Lai incident of last spring and recent atrocities and mass murders along with the recent assassinations in the U.S. have elicited a kind of national self-examination. Our society is now considered “sick” and people wonder how representative of the American people are Oswald and Lt. Calley. Illustrative of this is a recent essay […]

Generational conflict, generational struggle, has been a recurrent theme throughout history. Unlike class struggle, however, it has rarely been understood or ever studied. Labor movements have a somewhat defined and intelligible history. Student movements, however, have a somewhat vague and transient character. The student status, unlike that of the workman, is temporary, a few short […]

On July 29, 1968, Pope Paul promulgated his seventh encyclical, Humanae Vitae (Of Human Life), which condemned all methods of contraception on the grounds that it is an attempt to violate God’s natural laws. The decision is reflected by a distinct minority of Catholics, and it created an unprecedented storm of protest and dissent among […]

With the national elections over, a dramatic and tumultuous political year is rushing to a close. Its’ shocking assassinations, unruly conventions, and distasteful campaigns seen by everyone on T.V. and in newspapers, seem something like a bad nightmare, and are more subject to repression than reflection. But in the climax of this political year, one […]

Black and white, religious leaders looked upon Dr. Martin Luther King with some kind of awe. They saw something of the Old Testament prophet in him. And his closest followers looked on him almost as a messiah. He had a “charisma” as the theologians put it, an inspired quality, an inner force pressing him on. […]