New Left Marxism by George Lichtheim Some time ago a speaker on the BBC expressed the hope that Jean-Paul Sartre would in future devote more of…
Coat upon a Stick, by Norman Fruchter by Robert Alter At a point in time when the East Side ghetto has faded in the consciousness of most younger American Jews…
Epistles from the Eisenhower Age by Murray Kempton The Eisenhower administration on the whole was not a bad administration so far as its policies and achievements were concerned:…
My Father’s Son by Mark Harris The present essay has been adapted from Mark Harris's introduction to his new play, "Friedman and Son."
New Left Marxism by George Lichtheim Some time ago a speaker on the BBC expressed the hope that Jean-Paul Sartre would in future devote more of…
People Get Hooked by Commentary Bk The American "narcotics problem" is an artificial tragedy with real victims. One such victim was "Janet Clark," the pseudonym of…
Report of the Committee on Broadcasting, by Sir Harry Pilkington & others by Commentary Bk The Pilkington report is a long and repetitive amalgam of Fabian tract, aristocratic bias, puritanical concern, New Left polemic, and…
The Crisis in the Western Alliance by Hans J. Morgenthau Two short essays on the crisis of the Atlantic Alliance. Hans Morgenthau espouses an American view while Graham Hutton maintains…
The Early Goebbels Diaries 1925-1926, edited by Helmut Heiber by Werner J. Dannhauser To readers of history, these diaries of Goebbels will prove disappointing. There is little new historical information to be gained…
The National Wealth of the United States in the Postwar Period, by Raymond W. Goldsmith by David T. Bazelon Society and statistics grow together, the one in size and the other in importance. This is one of the larger…
The Paradoxes of Freedom, by Sidney Hook by Lewis A. Coser The three interrelated chapters of this book elaborate a series of lectures which the author delivered at the University of…
The Polish Miracle by R. H. S. When measured in terms of economic statistics, the revival of the Polish countryside which I witnessed last summer may not…
