Free Men and Free Markets, by Robert Theobald by Robert L. Heilbroner From its title, one might suspect that this was a tract in defense of laissez-faire economics, but titles can be…
America & the World Revolution by Lewis A. Coser Last spring, COMMENTARY invited Lewis A. Coser, Oscar Gass, Hans J. Morgenthau, and Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., to participate in a…
Basic Reader Series, published by Scott, Foresman & Co. by Tung Orans Messrs. Gray, Artley, et. al., are the authors of the Think-and-Do Books, a series of workbooks designed to teach children…
Before the Bible, by Cyrus H. Gordon by H. L. Ginsberg Biblical Israel, for all its originality, cannot be studied in isolation from the Semitic cultures of the Ancient Near East.…
Free Men and Free Markets, by Robert Theobald by Robert L. Heilbroner From its title, one might suspect that this was a tract in defense of laissez-faire economics, but titles can be…
Metatheatre, by Lionel Abel by Richard Gilman "I have tried in this book," Lionel Abel writes, "to do two things: one, to explain why tragedy is so…
Race-The Dream and the Nightmare by Leslie A. Fiedler Deep in the mind of America, if not actually below, at least at the lowest level of consciousness, there exist…
Responses and Reactions VI by Norman Mailer I thought this month to depart from the regular form of the column and quote no particular passages out of…
The Bombing of Germany, by Hans Rumpf by Marcus Cunliffe A bothersome book: I have scribbled all over its margins. Bothersome in small ways, which prejudice the reader both against…
The Comedy of Lenny Bruce by Albert Goldman Several months ago in Chicago, the comedian Lenny Bruce was convicted of obscenity and sentenced to one year in jail…
The New Yorker and Hannah Arendt by Irving Howe Some months ago, shortly after James Baldwin published in the New Yorker his now famous article about the Negroes, there…
Translating the Bible by Theodor Gaster For the past fifty years there has been a growing feeling among scholars and ministers of religion that the time…
