Democracy Has/Hasn't a Future . . . a Present
An abridged transcript of a Theatre for Ideas panel on the future of democracy, with Mailer, Herbert Marcuse, and Arthur Schlesinger Jr.
An abridged transcript of a Theatre for Ideas panel on “the nature and future of democracy” (3 May, Friends Meeting House, Gramercy Park). Besides Mailer, the panelists were Nat Hentoff (moderator), Herbert Marcuse, and Arthur Schlesinger Jr.; questions came from Elizabeth Hardwick and Robert Lowell. Rpt: as “Democracy: Does It Have a Future?” in Dissent, Power, and Confrontation, ed. Alexander Klein (McGraw Hill, 1971).