Principles and Heresies

Other-Directed Champion of Other-Directed Court

Mr. David Riesman, whose sociological study, The Lonely Crowd, became a national best-seller, is a rare type among sociologists. Unlike most of his colleagues, he has at one time or another shown considerable imagination and a willingness to stand off from, and critically appraise, the shibboleths of the Liberal atmosphere in which he has his being.