Beyond Freedom and Dignity, by B. F. Skinner by Harold Kaplan It is now familiar in the teaching and publishing world to be confronted by aroused and militant scientists who wish…
Community Control Revisited by Diane Ravitch The Ocean Hill-Brownsville Demonstration District is by now a symbol of the movement for community control of public schools.
Eleanor and Franklin, by Joseph P. Lash by Dorothy Rabinowitz Nothing in the American temper surpasses the claim that mystery makes upon our hearts, except perhaps our love of the…
Emancipation, Enlightenment & All That by Robert Alter The history of European Jewry over the past two hundred years offers an intriguing perspective on the whole confusing phenomenon…
HEW & the Universities by Paul Seabury The middle-range bureaucrats staffing the HEW Civil Rights office, under its Director, J. Stanley Pottinger, now scent sexism more easily…
In Bluebeard’s Castle, by George Steiner by Irving Howe A phalanx of crucial topics, a tone of high-church gravity, a light sprinkle of multilingual erudition, a genteel stab at…
Letter from Tel Aviv by Amos Elon The rains came late this year. Now, early in December, autumn abruptly drops and the air is pregnant with uncertainties,…
Ministering to Britain by Rudolf Klein There are two basic stereotypes of politicians, with a great many variations on each.
On Intoxication by John P. Sisk Perhaps the best way to approach the subject of intoxication is to note that the word "whiskey" in its Gaelic…
There She Is: The Life and Times of Miss America, by Frank Deford by Anne Hollander Miss America is chosen every September in Atlantic City, and promptly sinks into oblivion so far as most of the…
Without Marx or Jesus, by Jean-Francois Revel by Edward Grossman To judge a book by a Frenchman that has "America" in its title by comparing it with Democracy in America…
