ABSTRACT
D uring World War II there were two main topics of social analysis and speculation among American intellectuals:
The area of domestic reform is just the opposite. The rise of McCarthyism, the Cold War, and, to the intellectuals, the surprising success of the American postwar economy, stifled serious discussion of basic domestic reform for a number of years
F o r e i g n P o l i c y
The first set of classic issues we shall describe are related to foreign policy and war and peace issues. Since we have already devoted much attention to foreign policy we shall be quite brief here. Despite the opportunity to talk about foreign affairs given by our concentration on Vietnam, more than a dozen intellectuals, half of them well-known as professional experts in foreign affairs, felt that they had not yet exhausted their interest in the field and chose the area as their second topic of discussion. And their impact may be greater than their number since four of them were important editors whose journals or newspapers
have consistently featured wide coverage of foreign affairs. Moreover, as compared to intellectuals in other fields, those interested in foreign affairs and matters of war and peace have been consistently more politically involved and more active. The UN and disarmament and peace were the main interests of the majority; a second group was concerned with East-West relations . and another group consisted of area specialists each discussing his own things.
