A Certain Anxiety by Norman Podhoretz "In the last few years some of us--often to our own surprise and usually against our own will but at…
Berkeley: A Tale of One City by Paul Seabury Gaining fame seven years ago for being the birthplace of American student militancy, Berkeley this year has come close to…
Reading Robert Lowell by Commentary Bk Writing in 1944, from his perch atop the indomitable sway of the New Criticism and with a view of all…
Stars and Celebrities by Richard Schickel Long before anyone saw it on film, it was a famous scene: the actor Rip Torn, without obvious provocation, attacking…
The German Dictatorship, by Karl Dietrich Bracher; The Foreign Policy of Hitler’s Germany, by Gerhard L. Weinberg by Lucy S. Dawidowicz Karl Dietrich Bracher, professor of political science and contemporary history at the University of Bonn and the author of major…
The Many Americas Shall Be One, by Harrison E. Salisbury; Out of Place in America, by Peter Schrag; U.S. Journal, by Calvin Tril by Walter Goodman Off they go, our journalists, on their endless quest for America. Thousands of them, craftsmen and hacks, a few poets,…
The Reputation of Eric Rohmer by William S. Pechter With "Claire's Knee," one begins to see more clearly precisely what Eric Rohmer was up to in "My Night at…
The Unknown Mayhew, by Eileen Yeo and E.P. Thompson by Gertrude Himmelfarb The historian who does not subscribe to the creed of "relevance," who believes, indeed, that the best history is written…
What’s Left? by Roger Starr Unless one experiences a sudden conversion, one of those emotional thunderclaps after which the world changes color before one's eyes,…
