When the Going Was Good!, by Jeffrey Hart by Ronald Berman One of the problems for the conservative imagination in this country is that it has had no recent experience in…
Shakespeare as Remedial Reading by Ronald Berman Sometimes in my English classes I give out reading lists of about fifty titles from Homer to Joyce. The student…
Art vs. the Arts by Ronald Berman Ibsen, who was one of the heroes of modernism, endowed it with a passionate belief in artistic sensibility and social…
The Auden Generation, by Samuel Hynes by Ronald Berman W. H. Auden wrote of the 30's -and of his own participation in them-that it was a low, dishonest decade.
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…
