Paganism, Religion & Modernity by Milton Himmelfarb JEWS-MOST JEWS-are modern, enlightened. Judaism isn't. By Judaism I mean, for instance, the synagogue on Yom Kippur. Even of those…
Avant-Garde Theatrics by Jack Richardson IF ONE thinks historically about the theater, it is easy to see its conventions as reflections of the various ages…
Czechoslovakia 1968 by George Lichtheim LONDON, OCTOBER.-This is not a good moment to be writing about the probable shape of things to come in Eastern…
Four Strange Books of the Bible: Jonah, Daniel, Koheleth, Esther, by Elias Bickerman by David Daiches "AS A CLASSICAL scholar," writes Dr. Bickerman in his Preface, "the author is interested in the books of the Bible…
On the Steps of Low Library: Liberalism & the Revolution of the Young by Diana Trilling IT IS by conscious design that I borrow the title of Norman Mailer's famous report of the march on the…
Paganism, Religion & Modernity by Milton Himmelfarb JEWS-MOST JEWS-are modern, enlightened. Judaism isn't. By Judaism I mean, for instance, the synagogue on Yom Kippur. Even of those…
The Colony-A Story by Isaac Bashevis Singer IT WAS ALL like one long dream: the eighteen-day boat trip to Argentina, the encounter with my Polish landsleit in…
The End of Obscenity, by Charles Rembar by Commentary Bk PERMISSIVE DECISIONS by the Supreme Court in obscenity cases constituted one of the main issues in the struggle over confirmation…
The Social and Political Thought of Karl Marx, by Shlomo Avineri by Loyd D. Easton TOWARD the end of his life Marx exclaimed, "I am not a Marxist," to underline the difference between his own…
Victorian Minds, by Gertrude Himmelfarb by Robert A. Nisbet DOUBTLESS God could create a better interpreter of the English 19th century, but doubtless God hasn't. So might the homely…
Vietnam & the Law by Beverly Woodward ON JULY 10 of this year four men were sentenced in Boston to two years in prison for conspiring to…
Writers and Partisans: A History of Literary Radicalism in America, by James Gilbert by Michael Harrington IN 1962, William Phillips analyzed his experience as an editor of MICHAEL HARRINGTON'S most recent book is Toward a Democratic…
