A Fever of Ethnicity by Robert Alter More and more, America comes to seem the land of perpetual identity crisis.
Agony in the Clubhouse by Dorothy Rabinowitz After faltering for the past years into the oblivion that aged revolutionists are heir to, the New York City Reform…
Growth and Its Enemies by Rudolf Klein One of the characteristics of the human race, a look at current bookstore displays would suggest, is that it is…
Henry Ford and Grass-Roots America, by Reynold M. Wik by Barry Gewen Is there any single person who did more to transform America from a land of family farms and small towns…
Judaism after Auschwitz by Michael A. Meyer Only in the last five years have Emil Fackenheim's writings become known to more than'a small group of interested Jewish…
Let History Judge, by Roy A. Medvedev by Robert Conquest The publication of Roy A. Medvedev's Let History Judge is an event of real importance.
Liberalism versus Liberal Education by James Q. Wilson My title will strike many readers as paradoxical, even absurd. Liberalism, far from being the enemy of a liberal education,…
Museums in Crisis, edited by Brian O’Doherty by Anne Hollander It would appear from more than just the publication of this book that all existing museums of art in America…
The Dual Image, by Harold Fisch; The Schlemiel as Modern Hero, by Ruth R. Wisse by Edward Alexander No one can be more sensitive than Professor Wisse herself to the tragic, or rather the disastrous, political implications for…
The Idea of a Common Culture by Norman Podhoretz "Reading Robert Alter's 'A Fever of Ethnicity' (p. 68), I was struck by the relative coolness he displays toward the…
The Lesson of Forest Hills by Roger Starr The conflict triggered by the attempt to build a low-income public-housing project in the Forest Hills section of New York…
