Why Computers Can’t Be Poets by William Barrett There is no royal road to learning, the ancients said; but in our culture, now, all roads seem, in one…
Philosophy & the Disappearing Self by William Barrett The 19th is still a century we are struggling to extricate ourselves from. It has thus something of the ambiguity…
The Authentic Lionel Trilling by William Barrett Lionel Trilling was a graceful man. I was reminded of the fact recently by happening upon an old publicity photograph…
The Painters’ Club by William Barrett The artists themselves spoke of it simply as "the Club." "Painters' Club" was my own expression when I had to…
Human Rights and American Foreign Policy A Symposium by William Barrett What role, if any, should a concern for human rights play in American foreign policy? Is there a conflict between…
Portrait of the Radical as an Aging Man by William Barrett Philip Rahv might seem to be a figure of purely local and circumscribed interest. A recent collection of Rahv's writings…
Wittgenstein the Pilgrim by William Barrett HAD he written nothing, had his influence not been enormous over four decades of philosophers, Ludwig Wittgenstein would still have…
On Returning to Religion by William Barrett Looking back, what fragments have I saved out of my life to shore up its meaning? What rituals, charms, incantations,…
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…
Homeless in the World by William Barrett Alienation is one of the deepest themes in modern culture. It has also become, alas, one of the most hackneyed.
Our Contemporary, William James by William Barrett What strikes us in reading William James now is at once how distant and yet how close to us he…
