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…

Black Education, by Thomas Sowell

by Walter Goodman

"Black Education" begins with a section of pertinent autobiography and ends with a discussion of such matters as IQ and…

A Question of Judgment: The Fortas Case and the Struggle for the Supreme Court, by Robert Shogan

by Walter Goodman

On the basis of early returns the Supreme Court, which now seats four appointees of Mr. Nixon, is living up…

American Medicine and the Public Interest, by Rosemary Stevens

by Walter Goodman

Among the popular subjects of the past several publishing seasons, up there with the Vietnam crisis, the black crisis, the…

The Many Americas Shall Be One, by Harrison E. Salisbury; Out of Place in America, by Peter Schrag; U.S. Journal, by Calvin Tril

by Walter Goodman

Off they go, our journalists, on their endless quest for America. Thousands of them, craftsmen and hacks, a few poets,…

The Question of Repression

by Walter Goodman

It has been apparent since the 1969 inception of the New Mobe that its main business has not been to…

Being Busted, by Leslie A. Fiedler

by Walter Goodman

Leslie Fiedler, along with his wife, two sons, a daughter-in-law, and two friends of one of the sons, was busted…

1968

by Walter Goodman

Once more into the snows of New Hampshire! Once more the tear gas of Chicago! There's no escaping the 1968…

The Tragedy of Lyndon Johnson, by Eric F. Goldman

by Walter Goodman

Toward the end of his intermittently interesting book about the first three years of the Johnson administration, Eric F. Goldman…

Notes from the New Underground, edited by Jesse Kornbluth

by Walter Goodman

The news from the New Underground is this: Square America drinks too much and fornicates too little. We are hung…

Young Radicals: Notes on Committed Youth, by Kenneth Keniston

by Walter Goodman

NO ONE KNOWS better than Kenneth Keniston that fourteen interviews do not constitute an unshakable foundation for a study of…

Protest: Pacifism and Politics, by James Finn

by Walter Goodman

THE PEACE MOVEMENT at present Defies definition; it has a score of centers and no fixed boundaries. Nevertheless, as the…