How Many Masses Is Poland Worth? How Many Masses Is Poland Worth?
"Oh God," Heinrich Heine wrote, "how big is your zoo!" This sentence kept popping into my head in June as I read the dispatches of my journalistic colleagues on Pope John Paul II...
Jan 2, 1998 / Feature / Daniel Singer
Socialism Takes Two Steps Back Socialism Takes Two Steps Back
The French socialist saga makes awkward reading for left-wingers. It has a wistful air of déjà vu.
Jan 2, 1998 / Feature / Daniel Singer
The Revolution Seen Through a Glass Darkly The Revolution Seen Through a Glass Darkly
A film beginning with a shot of a little boy being beaten for not having learned the Declaration of the Rights of Man by heart, and closing in the overwhelming shadow of the guillo...
Jan 2, 1998 / Books & the Arts / Daniel Singer
Imagination Has Not Yet Taken Power Imagination Has Not Yet Taken Power
"What has happened to your 'socialist' France? Is it going the way of all social-democratic flesh?"
Jan 2, 1998 / Feature / Daniel Singer
‘Solidarity Will Never Die’ ‘Solidarity Will Never Die’
If Polish law supposes that a huge social movement can be voted out of existence, then, as Mr.
Jan 2, 1998 / Feature / Daniel Singer
Three on Poland Three on Poland
In August 1980 the Gdansk shipyard workers astonished the world by winning the right to set up a genuinely independent labor union.
Jan 2, 1998 / Books & the Arts / Daniel Singer
Solidarity–Lest We Forget Solidarity–Lest We Forget
Those on the left who cherished the illusion that Poland would somehow vanish from the news and that Solidarity would disappear from our political consciousness have been disappoin...
Jan 2, 1998 / Feature / Daniel Singer
Communism and the Left Communism and the Left
On the evening of February 6 at Town Hall in New York City, various elements of the American left (spanning Gore Vidal and PATCO and including E.L.
Jan 2, 1998 / Feature / Various Contributors
Jaruzelski Sends in the Tanks Jaruzelski Sends in the Tanks
Sunday, December 13, order reigned in Warsaw. Martial law had been proclaimed. Tanks patrolled the streets of the capital.
Jan 2, 1998 / Feature / Daniel Singer
How the Left Is Helping to Re-elect Giscard How the Left Is Helping to Re-elect Giscard
Suspense without passion is France's strange electoral mood for the moment. President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing's advisers are both perturbed and fundamentally optimistic.
Jan 2, 1998 / Feature / Daniel Singer