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Patrick E. Gorman, secretary-treasurer of the Amalgamated Meat Cutters and Butcher Workers of North America; David Selden, president of the American Federation of Teachers; Victor Reuther, former international-affairs director of the United Automobile Workers; Irving Howe, editor of Dissent magazine; and historian Christopher Lasch were among those who signed the appeal for a convention...
...sense is that the people who were at odds with Mike Harrington or me or Dissent over the last few years are much less hostile now," he went on. "Christopher Lasch, for instance, was always to our left and never involved in social-democratic politics before...
With such an efficient organization the question arises: just why is McGovern going to do so poorly? In a recent article in the New York Review of Books, Christopher Lasch argues that McGovern fails to make an impact on people because he has not assumed a populist stance. In a recent interview, Jack Newfield and Jeff Greenfield, authors of the book A Populist Manifesto, took a similar stance. After hearing McGovern on the stump for a week, it is fair to say that this assertion is simply not true. McGovern consistently attacks the Nixon administration for selling out to "special...
Another of Orwell's close friends, Stephen Spender, became an editor of the CCF's magazine, Encounter--subsidized throughout its existence by indirect grants from the CIA. Christopher Lasch, who chronicled the history of CCF in his essay "The Cultural Cold War," gives this capsule description of Encounter's editorial policy during the fifties...
Will the young supply the spark for regeneration? Alas, the young, Braden fears, may be too obsessed with lifestyle and too hedonistic−just a new kind of market for technology to manipulate. "Consumers of enjoyment," to quote Lasch...