Arthur Miller’s Eden by Jack Richardson Change is certainly one of the facts of a critic's life. Having been enthralled and perplexed by art for many…
Bare Ruined Choirs, by Garry Wills by Andrew M. Greeley "Bare Ruined Choirs" is a collection of articles by an "involved" journalist reporting on the last ten years of the…
Disease as a Way of Life by Eric Cassell In all the recent talk about the "crisis" in medical care, a major concern-whether explicitly stated or merely implied-has been…
Higher Education for All? by Martin Mayer Access to education has been one of the most durable issues in the political life of this century, and not…
Inequality, by Christopher Jencks et al. by Diane Ravitch Christopher Jencks's "Inequality" is a good case study of what happens when a serious and complex piece of research is…
Poetry and Public Experience by Stephen Donadio In an age defined most vividly by the appearance of schematized conflict on all fronts, one of the most persistent…
The Big Foundations, by Waldemar A. Nielsen by Sara Sanborn How other people spend their money is a perennial American preoccupation, and when the people in question are multimillionaires enjoying…
The Fall of the American University, by Adam Ulam by David Thorburn Adam Ulam is in pain, and he has written a cranky and opinionated book whose true purpose is to disclose…
The Greeks, the Romans & Captain Dreyfus by Milton Himmelfarb Lady Beaconsfield said she never could remember which came first, the Greeks or the Romans. Because I studied Latin before…
The Intellectuals & the Pursuit of Happiness by Norman Podhoretz "I was, I must admit, surprised both by the volume and by the intensity of the response (p. 12) to…
The Revolt of the Masses by Jeane J. Kirkpatrick Last year's Presidential election differed from elections of the recent past not so much because of how people voted as…
Tradition and Reality, by Nathan Rotenstreich by Marvin Fox The conviction that the Jews possess a fixed and unchanging tradition is woven into the very fabric of classical Judaism.
