Psychoanalysis and Morality by Leslie H. Farber At this date, there cannot be many within the psychoanalytic movement who would dispute the fact that psychoanalysis is, among…
Beyond Darwinism: Portmann’s Thought by Marjorie Grene In "New Paths in Biology," Adolf Portmann makes a distinction which can serve as a useful introduction to his thought.…
Beyond Darwinism: The Special Position of Man by Adolf Portmann Anyone who speaks of man's special position in the realm of the living, must also stress that this problem has…
China’s Strategy-A Critique by Donald S. Zagoria Since 1958, when the Chinese began to perceive a new revolutionary upsurge in Asia, Africa, and Latin America and became…
Flannery O’Connor by Commentary Bk We now have all the work by which Flannery O'Connor will be remembered in the world.
Movies & Messages by Midge Decter For many of us, movies have always provided what novels apparently did to young ladies in the 18th century: the…
On Escalation, by Herman Kahn by George Kateb It would be nice to hate Herman Kahn with an easy conscience. But even "On Thermonuclear War (1960)," his first…
People or Personnel, by Paul Goodman by Christopher Lasch Paul Goodman's latest book, like his earlier ones, tends to divorce the idea of politics from the idea of power.
Political Awakening in the Congo, by Rene Lemarchand by Colin Legum Remarkably little has been learned--least of all by the Belgian business community and their Western friends--about the nature of the…
Psychoanalysis and Morality by Leslie H. Farber At this date, there cannot be many within the psychoanalytic movement who would dispute the fact that psychoanalysis is, among…
Reformers in the Ghetto by Ronald Sanders The world of real experience comes hard to American writers. It is rare for them to achieve the kind of…
The History of the Jews, by Poul Borchsenius by Lucy S. Dawidowicz Poul Borchsenius, a Lutheran pastor in Randers, Danish Jutland, was called the "shooting priest" during World War II by the…
The King of the Cats, by F. W. Dupee by V. S. Pritchett Mr. Dupee first became known to me through his lucid book on Henry James in the American Men of Letters…