Totalitarianism, Dead and Alive by Stephen Miller The current, unprecedented wave of reform and unrest in the Communist world has led many Western observers to proclaim the…
Escape to Freedom: The Story of the International Rescue Committee, by Aaron Levenstein by Stephen Miller If Communists took over the Sahara, the joke goes, there would soon be a shortage of sand. There would probably…
Ambition: The Secret Passion, by Joseph Epstein by Stephen Miller Like a Hindu god, ambition takes many forms-some distasteful, others attractive, some dangerous, others benign. Shakespeare depicted ambition in all…
Theater and Revolution: The Culture of the French Stage, by Frederick Brown by Stephen Miller The theater has never been an important force in American culture, but in France, as Frederick Brown makes clear in…
The Posthumous Victory of Albert Camus by Stephen Miller The life of Albert Camus, who died twenty years ago in an automobile accident, reads like a 19th-century French novel…
Politics and Amnesty International by Stephen Miller AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL is an independent human-rights organization which issues regular reports on violations of human rights throughout the world and…
Wartime, by Milovan Djilas by Stephen Miller Wartime is a compelling story of civil war, of the internecine fighting among Yugoslavs of differing loyalties that began after…
The Fall of Public Man, by Richard Sennett by Stephen Miller Americans have always been chided both for their bad manners and their weak sense of social complexity. If Henry James…
Crooked Paths: Reflections on Socialism, Conservatism, and the Welfare State, by Peter Clecak by Stephen Miller Peter Clecak is a chastened socialist. In his previous book, Radical Paradoxes, Clecak was critical of some influential American left-wing…
The Poverty of Socialist Thought by Stephen Miller Political labels are, like most things, subject to the law of civilization and decay. But what of the labels socialist…