November 1958 Issue [The Editor’s Easy Chair] Unfinished business Adjust Share by John Fischer, This article is only available as a PDF to subscribers. Download PDF Tags 1945-1960 1953-1961 20th century Cold War Economic policy Foreign relations Politics and government Representative government and representation United States More from John Fischer Ugliness and Tension The question for the arriving generation is not whether our society is imperfect (we can take that for granted), but how to deal with that imperfection. So far as I… From “Letter from Leete’s Island Field notes on the manners, morals, and customs of the Connecticut Yankee," January 1969 From “Letter to a new leftist, from a tired liberal,” March 1966 Adjust Share