Israel's Three Cities by David Pryce-Jones The meeting point of Haifa is the observation platform in the middle of Panorama Road. It is always crowded. Tel…
Festivals and Judges by Milton Himmelfarb The last decorations will surely have been taken down from the lampposts by Lincoln's birthday, so the end of the…
Growing Old in America by Midge Decter It is quite impossible to look without fear upon the simple malice that can play in the face of a…
Israel’s Three Cities by David Pryce-Jones The meeting point of Haifa is the observation platform in the middle of Panorama Road. It is always crowded. Tel…
Jewish & Other Nationalisms by H. R. Trevor-Roper The Jews have been a European nation responding to the same general forces which have moved the other European nations.…
Naked Lunch, by William Burroughs by Commentary Bk Well, "Naked Lunch" is no work of genius but the first half of it is pleasantly readable without too much…
Post-Bourgeois Europe by George Lichtheim Insofar as Western Europe is beginning to resemble the United States--in respect to income levels, social fluidity, and the breakdown…
The Ghetto Game, by Dennis Clark; and A Tale of Ten Cities, edited by Eugene J. Lipman and Albert Vorspan by Staughton Lynd In "The Ghetto Game," Dennis Clark joins James Conant and Michael Harrington to warn that all is far from well…
The Housing Order & Its Limits by Charles Abrams On November 20, 1962--as the entire nation listened to hear the outcome of two events, either of which might have…
The Innocence of Tennessee Williams by Marion Magid Tennessee Williams is not our best, but our only American playwright since O'Neill. His imagination magnetized though it is by…
The New Secretary-General by Hans J. Morgenthau The United Nations Charter describes the Secretary-General as "the chief administrative officer of the organization."
The Soviet Revolution, 1917-1939, by Raphael R. Abramovich by Robert V. Daniels Raphael Abramovich is the last great representative of the forgotten alternative to the Bolsheviks in the Russian Revolution: the true…
The Story of Jewish Philosophy, by Joseph Blau; and The Jewish Mind, by Gerald Abrahams by Marvin Fox It is encouraging that serious scholars, who do not specialize in Jewish studies, should turn their attention to Jewish thought.
The Warfare State, by Fred J. Cook by David T. Bazelon This fellow really believes the cold war was begun, and still continues, because of a conspiracy of the American military-industrial…
