Sociobiology & Its Critics by Charles Frankel The wheel of intellectual fashion turns and returns in universities-behaviorism, eugenics, the New History, the New Criticism, pragmatism, Marxism, logical…
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…
The Specter of Eugenics by Charles Frankel One of the often noted anomalies of our society is its capacity to develop extraordinary new technologies while failing to…
The New Egalitarianism and the Old by Charles Frankel When I was an undergraduate in the 30's, we used to hoot at yokels who said that socialism meant that…