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communist American liberals and European social democrats of the
1950s, the new left's main targets , were an anti-authoritarian left.
Perhaps the most important lesson I draw from thinking about
the new left was that it mattered .
It
was not irrelevant.
It
was not
just campus fun and games after all. There are institutions and ideals
to reaffirm - a nondidactic literature and art , a nonpoliticized uni–
versity, scholarship freed from ideological camps , and an intellectual
establishment that has recovered its nerve and is able to speak harshly
of dictatorships without double standards and to speak well of free
societies, such as ours. These are not new ideals to realize , but they
are particularly important to me in view of the rather different goals
we championed in the new left .
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• Ronald Hayman on Sartre
• Raymond Aron:
A Memoir
• Lionel Abel on George Steiner's
The Portage to San Cristobal of A .
H.
• Fiction by Michel Tournier
• Peter Brooks on Psychoanalysis and Criticism
• Poetry by Joseph Brodsky, W . S. Merwin, and
Allen Ginsberg
• Steven Marcus on Ernest Hemingway
