Politics

Social (In-)Security Social (In-)Security

What precisely about the current Social Security "reform" debate makes it so hateful and repellent?

May 14, 1998 / The Editors

Unto Every One That Hath Unto Every One That Hath

When early Socialists dreamt of a society of equals, they could not even imagine a society with the productive capacities of America today. And yet equality looms more distant than...

Jan 2, 1998 / Books & the Arts / Daniel Singer

Socialism and the Soviet Bloc Socialism and the Soviet Bloc

Stalin is dead.

Jan 2, 1998 / Feature / Daniel Singer

Paris Letter: The Politics and the Pity Paris Letter: The Politics and the Pity

"We are all German Jews" chanted 50,000 Frenchmen at the gates of the Bastille in 1968; I was recently reminded of this episode, which has become revolutionary lore…

Jan 2, 1998 / Books & the Arts / Daniel Singer

The Rise of the Nouveaux Liberals The Rise of the Nouveaux Liberals

Letter From Europe

Jan 2, 1998 / Feature / Daniel Singer

How the Left Is Helping to Re-elect Giscard How the Left Is Helping to Re-elect Giscard

The French elections

Jan 2, 1998 / Feature / Daniel Singer

May in December May in December

It's not May in December. The ten days that shook the Chirac government are not a repetition of the great rising of students and workers that precipitated the fall of Gen. Charles ...

Jan 2, 1998 / Daniel Singer

A Specter Is Haunting Eurocommunism A Specter Is Haunting Eurocommunism

Is Europe, like Britain, swinging to the right? Whatever the answer, the State Department need not be haunted, for the time being, by the ghost of Eurocommunism.

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

The Ghosts of May The Ghosts of May

Letter From Europe

Jan 2, 1998 / Feature / Daniel Singer

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