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Harold Rosenberg

23 articles by Harold Rosenberg

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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…

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Is There a Jewish Art?

by Harold Rosenberg

Is there a Jewish art? First they build a Jewish Museum, then they ask, Is there a Jewish art? Jews!…

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Psychoanalysis Americanized

by Harold Rosenberg

In addition to being practiced by professionals, psychoanalysis is used to some degree by most of us to explain things…

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The Trial and Eichmann

by Harold Rosenberg

Can one really believe that the trial of Adolf Eichmann will deter mass murderers in the future, or that it…

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Six American Poets

by Harold Rosenberg

Ginsberg's "Kaddish" is a take-off on the Jewish prayer for the dead, not as it is printed in the prayer…

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The Study of Man: Community, Values, Comedy

by Harold Rosenberg

SOCIOLOGICAL studies expose their areas of inquiry as under a huge searchlight. There is an absence of shading, but this…

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The Watch, by Carlo Levi

by Harold Rosenberg

EVERY place has its own kind of time. This includes the pace of its people in their work, entertainment, action-the…

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The Nice American, by Gerald Sykes

by Harold Rosenberg

SYKEs's novel has hit on something that seems to be budding among American intellectuals: the impulse to join in the…

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On the Horizon: The Psychoanalysts and the Writer

by Harold Rosenberg

Spouting liquid fire at anyone who may dare disagree with them, two psychoanalytic doctors have gone over the top with…

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Jewish Identity in a Free Society:On Current Efforts to Enforce “Total Commitment”

by Harold Rosenberg

Few of us are duplicates of our grandfathers, in either thought, feeling, speech, or appearance.

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The Communist:His Mentality and His Morals

by Harold Rosenberg

The Englishman of Gilbert and Sullivan's era may have been born either a Liberal or a Conservative, but no one…

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Does the Jew Exist?Sartre’s Morality Play About Anti-Semitism

by Harold Rosenberg

In Considering Sartre's conception of the Jew and his relation to anti-Semitism we must not forget that Reflections on the…