The Politics of a Guaranteed Income, by Daniel P. Moynihan by Martin Mayer If a somnolent Congressman from a safe district had fallen asleep in the basement of the West Wing of the…
Black Progress and Liberal Rhetoric by Ben J. Wattenberg A remarkable development has taken place in America over the last dozen years: for the first time in the history…
Norman Mailer, by Richard Poirier; St. George and the Godfather, by Norman Mailer by David Thorburn Richard Poirier's new book on Norman Mailer is one in a series devoted to "modern masters . . . who…
On Challenging an Orthodoxy by R. J. Herrnstein In the immediate aftermath of Charles Darwin's epochal Origin of Species, social theorists were quick to apply the doctrine to…
Our (English) Crowd by Chaim Raphael Anything "Our Crowd" can do, we-"The Cousinhood" of England-can do better: or so Chaim Bermant might seem to be saying…
Political Violence and Civil Disobedience, by Ernest van den Haag by Joseph W. Bishop Ernest Van Den Haag's book is something of a literary oddity: two excellent essays (the first on civil disobedience, the…
Reflections on a Teapot, by Ronald Sanders; My Last Two Thousand Years, by Herbert Gold by David Stern Although both these works pose as straightforward autobiographical memoirs, each is actually a document of coming-to-Jewishness, an attempt to define…
That Most Distressful Nation, by Andrew M. Greeley by Robert W. Greene Over the past several years evidence has been mounting to indicate that a reemerging white ethnic consciousness is upon us.
The “Times” Op-Ed Page: Both Ends Against the Middle by Carl Gershman In the past two-and-a-half years, the Op-Ed page of the New York Times--so-called because it appears opposite the editorial page--has…
The Achievement of Gershom Scholem by Robert Alter "The desire to destroy," wrote Bakunin, "is also a creative desire," and he managed to inflame--indeed, his ideas still inflame--tens…
The New Inquisitors by Norman Podhoretz "To me, the worst part of the story R. J. Herrnstein (p. 52) tells of the harassment he has endured…
The Politics of a Guaranteed Income, by Daniel P. Moynihan by Martin Mayer If a somnolent Congressman from a safe district had fallen asleep in the basement of the West Wing of the…
