Rights to personal autonomy and privacy are nowhere expressly guaranteed in the U.S. Constitution. Yet in recent years the Su- preme Court, and lower courts as well, have upheld both the claims of individual citizens to a generalized "right to be let alone" and more specific demands for greater control over the uses made of personal information. Judges and legislators have not always found it easy to balance rights of individual privacy and autonomy against competing interests, such...
During the last decade, the right to personal privacy has gained the status of a central social value in America. This new emphasis is, of course, related to the long-standing American belief in personal freedom and the basic dignity and worth of the individual. But the more immediate cause has been public anx- iety about the increasing dominance of government, corpo- rations, and other large bureaucratic organizations-and fears of what these organizations may do with the vast amounts of personal...
suffering each other to live as seems good to themselves than compel- ling each to live as seems good to the rest.
This doctrine, set forth by John Stuart Mill in ON LIBERTY (London, 1859; Norton, paper, 1975), was, as he put it, "anything but new." But it is from Mill's stout defense of the individual's rights versus those of society, and from his con- cise discussion of the range of issues in- volved, that the modern debate over the relationship between law and morality can be seen...
Dusko Doder
Perhaps understandably, Yugoslavia's image in the West has never been sharply defined. Most Americans know little more about the country than that Marshal Tito fought the Nazis, defied Stalin, and in 1948 pulled out of the Soviet bloc. But even the Yugoslavs have a blurred conception of themselves. In ethnic terms, there is no such thing as a Yugoslav. There are Serbs, Croats, Slovenes, Macedonians, and many other "nationalities." Although they share a common South (or Yugo)...
Perhaps understandably, Yugoslavia's image in the West has never been sharply defined. Most Americans know little more about the country than that Marshal Tito fought the Nazis, defied Stalin, and in 1948 pulled out of the Soviet bloc. But even the Yugoslavs have a blurred conception of themselves. In ethnic terms, there is no such thing as a Yugoslav. There are Serbs, Croats, Slovenes, Macedonians, and many other "nationalities." Although they share a common South (or Yugo) Slav origin,...
's significance now? What will it be after Tito? Conventional answers usually point to the country's anomalous international position-neither Eastern nor West- ern, neither capitalist nor (in the Soviet sense) communist, neither neutral nor satellite. But these are descriptive cliches, not answers.
A real analysis of Yugoslavia's importance must focus on more tangible factors: on its geographical position, its volatile ethnic situation, its much-touted internal system of "self- management,"...
. The vitality of its people and the primi- tive countryside captured her imagina- tion. She went on to immerse herself in the research for BLACK LAMB AND GREY FALCON: A Journey Through Yugoslavia (Viking, 1941). Her 1,180-page book remained in print for 33 years and is still available in most libraries. It may be the best book ever written about Yugo- slavia.
Dame Rebecca's rich, old-fashioned mixture of travelogue, cultural history, and political reportage builds slowly but once begun is hard...
Armstead L. Robinson
The first Reconstruction was one of the most critical and turbulent episodes in the American experience. Few periods in the nation's history have produced greater controversy or left a greater legacy of unresolved social issues to afflict future gener- ations.
The postwar period-from General Robert E. Lee's surren- der at Appomattox in April 1865 through President Rutherford
B. Hayes's inauguration in March 1877-was marked bitter partisan politics. In essence, the recurring...
The first Reconstruction was one of the most critical and turbulent episodes in the American experience. Few periods in the nation's history have produced greater controversy or left a greater legacy of unresolved social issues to afflict future gener- ations.
The postwar period-from General Robert E. Lee's surren- der at Appomattox in April 1865 through President Rutherford
B. Hayes's inauguration in March 1877-was marked by bitter partisan politics. In essence, the recurring question was how...