Daniel P. Moynihan

Many independent colleges and universities will have to shut down unless new sources of funding are found. This problem, argued Boston University President John Silber in the May Atlantic, is related to the rapid growth of statesupported university systems, generously financed by tax dollars and duplicating, on occasion, facilities and programs already available at the independent schools. What follows is a sampling of the many responses to President Silber’s article — most of them edited for reasons of space and variety.

The men most responsible for making American foreign policy in the last three decades no longer think that policy successful, or no longer think it honorable, or no longer think it can be successfully defended. They are still in place, “but they are mostly immobilized,”says the author of this article. And that is why a dismal silence afflicts the American scene.

The liberals have been confusing their vocabulary, talking of “racism" when they mean “racialism.”and have been abandoning their traditional opposition to decentralized government and racial quotas. The results may be dangerous, observes Professor Moynihan, the buoyantly iconoclastic sociologist, author, and director of the Joint Center for Urban Studies of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard University.

Nine American writers and editors, back from a tour to Berlin and major West German cities, give their personal impressions of Germans today.