Duplicitous Mark Twain by Leslie A. Fiedler Duplicity is the most notable, perhaps the essential characteristic of the greatest American novelists; and surely the most duplicitous of…
Birth Control and Foreign Aid by James O'Gara I am grateful for the opportunity to comment on COMMENTARY'S article [February] by Kingsley Davis and Judith Blake. Under the…
Duplicitous Mark Twain by Leslie A. Fiedler Duplicity is the most notable, perhaps the essential characteristic of the greatest American novelists; and surely the most duplicitous of…
France During the German Occupation, 1940-1944, edited by Philip W. Whitcomb by Commentary Bk FILIAL piety is a virtue--children should be jealous of their parents' reputation. And Pierre Laval's horrible end in no way…
Frank Lloyd Wright’s Pictorama by William Barrett Why was Frank Lloyd Wright, who for twenty years or so had spoken with no uncertain contempt of modern painting,…
Modern Knowledge and the Idea of God by Sidney Hook Many years ago in a discussion with Jacques Maritain he remarked that anyone who was as keenly interested in arguments…
Passion at Oberammergau by Robert Gorham Davis This summer, if all goes as expected, some 400,000 people will travel to Oberammergau in Bavaria to watch the spectacle…
The Calling of American Youth by Paul Goodman Let us exaggerate. Conceive that the man-made environment is now out of human scale. Business, government, and real property have…
The Eavesdroppers, by Samuel Dash, Robert E. Knowlton, and Richard F. Schwartz by Mairi MacInnes THE initially striking and ultimately perhaps the most appalling characteristic of the world of 1984 was that it lacked privacy…
The Issue by N. P. IT MAY SEEM THAT MR. SIDNEY HOOK, IN HIS article "Ideas of God," is simply doing once more what so…
The Newcomers, by Oscar Handlin; Wages in the Metropolis, by Martin Segal by Nathan Glazer THESE are the third and fourth volumes of the New York Metropolitan Region Study, of which two volumes (Anatomy of…
The Question of National Defense, by Oskar Morgenstern by Gordon A. Craig A colleague of mine who has had some interest in military affairs confessed recently that he was completely bewildered by…
The Subversion of Collective Bargaining by Daniel Bell Unhappy is a society that has run out of words to describe what is going on. So Thurman Arnold observed…
The Unfinished Country, by Max Lerner by Midge Decter One may clasify the nature of Mr. Max Lerner's work in many ways (none of them quite satisfactory). He is…
Vox Populi, Vox GoldkornA Story by Norman Stein A Story ยท The kitchen staff whispered and hissed their amazement and anger. Even the waiters were upset; the fruit…
