The People: A Self-Corrective Process

Dissent—its nature, its acceptance, and what to do about it—was the issue of the week.

Said Essayist Paul Goodman, a self-styled anarchist, in the current New York Review of Books: "Some kind of martial law and thousands of arrests for sedition are quite thinkable."

Said Wyoming's Democratic Senator Gale McGee: "I have not noticed that those who oppose our policies in Southeast Asia have been coerced into silence. If anything, the tempo of their vocal exercises has been increased."

Said Oregon's Democratic Senator Wayne Morse: "There has obviously been let loose in this...