Word: citizenships
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...only absolute insisted in Michael Walzer's Obligations: Essays on Disobedience. War, and Citizenship -the only demand made on the political actor-is to perceive that moral choices exist. Once made, these choices persist and shift over time, divide a man's allegiance, and estrange his comrades. Walzer's essays whatever their other lessons, brilliamly ill?minate these choices. They imaginatively accommodate political ethics to the native brand of social protest which emerged in the 60's. Walzer attempts here to order a discussion of recent history without detailed reference to that history...
...essays are formal and abstract. They redefine polities as an endeavor to reconcile the maximum amount of personal honor with group solidarity. In a more cosmic sense, they re-evaluate citizenship and dissent in conceiving man as a striver for moaning through politics. Despite lapses into existentialist jargon. Walzer's "political journalism." belongs to the most lucid order of scholarship...
...nonwhite population to a present total of 1.3 million. The man who raised the issue was Tory Enoch Powell, Harold Macmillan's Minister of Health. In 1968 Powell prophesied that rivers of blood would flow in Britain if colored immigration was allowed to continue. More recently, he demanded citizenship legislation to differentiate between those who "belong" in Britain and those who do not, as well as a ban on the entry of dependents of immigrants already landed and a bribe for those nonwhites who agree to leave Britain...
...confronting this street corner press, so much of it thumbing its nose at me, I had to remind myself again and again of the distinction between expression and action. I don't imagine it will be much easier for others. Bearing in mind that it is no test of citizenship to abide only the man who agrees with us, the reader can test his own allegiance to the First Amendment by computing how much of the anthologized material to follow he is willing to defend. He will, as well, learn which disturbs him the least- the obscenity, the pornography...
...rather than men may be equivocating from a radical's point of view. But the multi-dimensionality of the officials in Cowan's account (like Erich Hofmann, the "poor schlemiel of an ex-Luftwasfe pilot" who wanted to squelch all boat-rocking at least until he secured his U.S. citizenship) underlines the truth that the tragedy of America admits of few clear villains. In like manner, Cowan understands that the shocking racism of many Peace Corps volunteers (one wanted to enlist in the Marines after his Ecuadorian stint so that he could shoot Vietnamese and pretend that they were "Ekkies...