Writing About Oneself by Alfred Kazin I do not know what "autobiography" is: the genre changes with each new example. What I myself have tried to…
What Is a Liberal-Who Is a Conservative? A Symposium by Lionel Abel, Jervis Anderson, William Barrett, David T. Bazelon, Pearl K. Bell, Ronald Berman, Norman Birnbaum, Joseph W. Bishop, Midge Decter, Edward Jay Epstein, Charles Frankel, Carl Gershman, Nathan Glazer, Eric F. Goldman, Walter Goodman, Sidney Hook, H. Stuart Hughes, Alfred Kazin, Jeane Kirkpatrick, Robert Lekachman, Carey McWilliams, Martin Mayer, Michael Novak, William Phillips, Earl Raab, Diane Ravitch, Harold Rosenberg, Richard H. Rovere, Bayard Rustin, Thomas Sowell, Roger Starr, Ben J. Wattenberg, Paul H. Weaver, James Q. Wilson, Peter P. Witonski, C. Vann Woodward and Dennis H. Wrong Commentary recently asked a group of 64 intellectuals: Are you satisfied with the way terms like liberal and conservative, or…
Democracy According to Whitman by Alfred Kazin Although Walt Whitman was a journalist before he was a poet, and with the publication of Leaves of Grass in…
“The Giant Killer”: Drink & the American Writer by Alfred Kazin America has always been a hard-drinking country despite the many places and times in which alcohol has been forbidden by…
The Jew as American Writer by Alfred Kazin There is real madness to modern governments, modern war, modern moneymaking, advertising, science, and entertainment; this madness has been translated…
The Strength of Robert Frost by Alfred Kazin Between 1954 and 1958, first in Northampton, then at Amherst, I saw Robert Frost often in the setting of a…
Remembering Jewish History by Alfred Kazin Although Jews are always much concerned with "history"-in the sense that traditionally they expect much of it--very few Jews, in…
At Ease in Zion by Alfred Kazin Alfred North Whitehead, that singularly clear mind, observed that even in Jesus' evasive "Render therefore unto Caesar the things which…
The Function of Criticism Today by Alfred Kazin SOME years ago, in a course I was giving on European novels, a student handed in a paper in which…
Writing for Magazines by Alfred Kazin CHEKHOV, who died at forty-four, would have been a hundred years old this year, and there have been suitable tributes…
On Puerto Rico by Alfred Kazin (1) And the Lion Shall Lie Down with the Lamb .. , WHEN Mr. Kazin's piece on Puerto Rico [February]…
