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I happened to stumble on this link
http://alina_stefanescu.typepad.com/...-magazine.html
Some of these articles are gems 
From "On living in a revolution" :-)
The author Milton Mayer has an interesting book, "And they thought they were free" that is well worth checking out.
http://alina_stefanescu.typepad.com/...-magazine.html
- "In Defiance of Gravity: Writing, Wisdom, and the Fabulous Gemini Club" by Tom Robbins published in September 2004
- "Marx Was A City Bow: Or, Why Communism May Fail" by W.W. Rostow published in February 1955
- "On Living in a Revolution" by Julian Huxley published in September 1942
- "Religion as an Adventure" by Harry Emerson Fosdick published in October 1925
- "The Vital Importance of Eugnenics" by Julian Huxley published in August 1931
- "Totalitarian Prosperity" by William Ropke published in
- "On Privacy: The American Dream" by William Faulkner published in July 1955
- A letter to banking interests from Ralph Waldo Emerson vouching for Walt Whitman published in February 1956
- "The Prisoner of Sex" by Norman Mailer published in March 1971
- "Christ Under Communism: An Eyewitness Report on the Churches in Eastern Europe" by Milton Mayer published in August 1960
From "On living in a revolution" :-)
This is possible, partly because a world
revolution is so vast in scope and, even
though it proceeds at a rate far faster
than that of history in its more normal
phases, so gradual compared with the
happenings of everyday life. The ordinary
man sees his taxes raised, or unemployment
go up, or banks crash down,
or the central government extend its
control, or war break out in some remote
part of the globe; and he is concerned
with each incident as an event in itself,
not as a symptom of a larger process.
It is also partly because most of us dislike
radical change; after all, it is a somewhat
dubious privilege. to be living in anything
so drastic as a revolution. Because
we dislike it, we unconsciously
push it away from us, begin to treat the
danger as if we were ostriches, and are
temporarily enabled to believe that the
nasty revolution doesn't really exist.
It is worth remembering that it took
revolution is so vast in scope and, even
though it proceeds at a rate far faster
than that of history in its more normal
phases, so gradual compared with the
happenings of everyday life. The ordinary
man sees his taxes raised, or unemployment
go up, or banks crash down,
or the central government extend its
control, or war break out in some remote
part of the globe; and he is concerned
with each incident as an event in itself,
not as a symptom of a larger process.
It is also partly because most of us dislike
radical change; after all, it is a somewhat
dubious privilege. to be living in anything
so drastic as a revolution. Because
we dislike it, we unconsciously
push it away from us, begin to treat the
danger as if we were ostriches, and are
temporarily enabled to believe that the
nasty revolution doesn't really exist.
It is worth remembering that it took
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