The Liberal Crack-Up, by R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. by Joseph W. Bishop The Liberal Crack-up merrily surveys the transformation during the 60's and 70's of traditional liberals, mostly one-time New and Fair…
The Death Penalty: A Debate, by Ernest van den Haag and John P. Conrad by Joseph W. Bishop If we must have another book on the rights and wrongs of the death penalty, we are unlikely to get…
The Best Defense, by Alan M. Dershowitz by Joseph W. Bishop For years I vaguely disapproved of Alan Dershowitz, although I was hardly acquainted with him. He seemed to be always…
Carter’s Last Capitulation by Joseph W. Bishop On January 19 and 20, James Earl Carter, Jr., then President of the United States, brought to what he evidently…
Senator, by Elizabeth Drew by Joseph W. Bishop THE campaign biography is a familiar variety of literature in this country. It usually lacks liter- JOSEPH
Can Democracy Defend Itself against Terrorism? by Joseph W. Bishop ON MARCH 17, the Bregate Rosse (Red Brigades), an Italian version (and probably an affiliate) of the German BaaderMeinhof gang,…
Just and Unjust Wars, by Michael Walzer by Joseph W. Bishop Just and Unjust Wars is a J thoughtful, generally well-written and lucid, and often but by no JOSEPH W. BISHOP,…
Freedom Spent, by Richard Harris by Joseph W. Bishop The dust-jacket of Freedom Spent bears the subtitle, "Tales of Tyranny in America," and the tone of the work is…
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…
Unequal Justice, by Jerold S. Auerbach by Joseph W. Bishop Unequal Justice is a philippic against the American bar (with the exception of a few saints and martyrs like William…
Lawyers at the Bar by Joseph W. Bishop In recent months the legal profession has been under the most severe attack in years-from the press, from the politicians,…
The Price of Perfect Justice, by Macklin Fleming by Joseph W. Bishop Ex California semper aliquid novum. This time it is a book about the defects of American justice.
