Summer of '72 by Dorothy Rabinowitz One comes to this scrubby pine place without large misgivings, despite the fact that the immediate environment is flat and…
About Equality by Irving Kristol There would appear to be little doubt that the matter of equality has become, in these past two decades, a…
Arthur Ruppin: Memoirs, Diaries, Letters, edited by Alex Bein by Ben Halpern Alex Bein, the editor of this volume, holds that, in the roster of heroes who created Israel, Arthur Ruppin was…
Cities of Light and Sons of the Morning, by Martin Green by John P. Sisk Subtitled "The Confessions of an Incipient Old Jew," A Bias of Reflections is a gentle, sensitive, and profoundly sad volume.
Holding the Horses by William S. Pechter I'd very much like to like John Huston's new film, and, to judge by many of the reviews, so would…
Indians and Other Americans by Carl N. Degler In the confrontation between the American Indian and the white man over the course of the past three centuries, no…
Living with Free Speech by Norman Podhoretz "Whenever I am forced--as I have been this month by Alexander M. Bickel (p. 60)--to think seriously about freedom of…
Revisiting the New Critics by Commentary Bk The New Criticism grew up in the 1930's alongside the "socially committed" criticism which used to be thought of as…
Summer of ’72 by Dorothy Rabinowitz One comes to this scrubby pine place without large misgivings, despite the fact that the immediate environment is flat and…
From “Sullivan” to the Pentagon Papers by Alexander Bickel In 1964, the Supreme Court decided New York Times Co. v. Sullivan, an important and novel decision of great consequence…
The History Primer, by J. H. Hexter; Doing History, by J. H. Hexter by David Donald For nearly a generation professional historians in the United States have been experiencing a crisis of confidence.
The Rosa Luxemburg Contraceptives Cooperative, by Leopold Tyrmand by Adam B. Ulam Given the social and cultural atmosphere of the times, it is likely that some people will dismiss this hard-hitting broadside,…
