Abstract

Editorials

This article presents brief descriptions of various current socio-political issues and developments. It first focuses on March 3, 1992, event at Town Hall in New York City, sponsored by The Nation Institute, the Center for American Culture Studies, Columbia University and the Writers Guild of America. The ostensible subject was "Hollywood & History: The Debate over JFK," but the talk covered far more ground than the media-framed issue of the factual accuracy of Oliver Stone's movie. The article further discusses the matter of self-identification among middle classes in the U.S. and concerned political redemptions. According to the 1983 class self-identification survey of the National Opinion Research Center, more people defined themselves as working class than as middle class.