The Emergence of the New South, 1913-1945, by George Brown Tindall by David Donald THE SOUTH, announced H. L. Mencken in the 1920's, is the "bonghole of the United States, a cesspool of baptists,…
Crime and Punishment by Isidore Silver The tone of public documents reflects the temper of the times, and the temper of modern America seems to be…
Downhill All the Way, by Leonard Woolf by Dan Jacobson BLOOMSBURY. The word itself is enough to lower one's spirits slightly. To hear once again about how a number of…
Nkrumah—A Post Mortem by Anthony Astrachan The recent history of Africa cries out for the insights of a Trotsky, a man whom the late Isaac Deutscher…
The Emergence of the New South, 1913-1945, by George Brown Tindall by David Donald THE SOUTH, announced H. L. Mencken in the 1920's, is the "bonghole of the United States, a cesspool of baptists,…
The Israeli Occupation by Amos Elon NINE MONTHS AFTER the Six-Day War, the occupied territories are still a kind of popular sensation in Israel, a source…
The Master and Margarita, by Mikhail Bulgakov by Ernst Pawel MIKHAIL BULGAKOV was already twelve years old when Chekhov died in 1904, an overlap that seems to preclude reincarnation as…
The New Status Quo by Shlomo Avineri MOST ISRAELIS were proved wrong by the Six-Day War. They had been wrong before the war, when most of them…
Triste Paris by H. Stuart Hughes It is with reluctance that I undertake to write about my year in Paris.
Vietnam and American Politics by Theodore Draper What is an opponent of U.S. policy in Vietnam to do in the 1968 Presidential election?
Why Our Schools Have Failed by Peter Schrag In the context of traditional American belief, Section 402 of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 is one of the…
