Reviewing Plays by Jack Richardson When G. B. Shaw retired as drama critic for the Saturday Review, he told his readers that he had come…
Closing Time, by Norman O. Brown by Alan Goldfein In 1959 Norman O. Brown published Life Against Death, an attempt to take Freud's principles beyond Freud, to explain how…
Emancipation and Jewish Studies by Jacob Katz Modern Jewish experience, to be fully understood, must be viewed under the aspect of emancipation, that process, starting in the…
Four Reforms, by William F. Buckley, Jr. by Elliott Abrams "Give it up" was John Kenneth Galbraith's advice, William Buckley reported in Cruising Speed. "The whole thing. National Review, journalism,…
Is Isolationism Possible? by Raymond Aron A small power restricts its ambitions to physical survival and the preservation of its legal independence and its institutions. A…
Journalism and Truth by Edward Jay Epstein The problem of journalism in America proceeds from a simple but inescapable bind: journalists are rarely, if ever, in a…
Mental Institutions in America, by Gerald Grob by Steven L. Schlossman History may not travel in cycles, but interpretations of history generally do. The last decade especially has been a fertile…
Nuclear Strategy: The New Debate by Edward N. Luttwak For many years there has been a broad consensus on strategic policy among academics, professional strategists, and their intellectual clientele…
Reviewing Plays by Jack Richardson When G. B. Shaw retired as drama critic for the Saturday Review, he told his readers that he had come…
Stalin Under Western Eyes by Lev Navrozov A Western scholar studying Russia after 1917 (or China after 1949) is in many ways in a worse position than…
Sylvia Plath Reconsidered by John Romano As a general rule, no writer is responsible for the vagaries of his posthumous literary reputation. Sylvia Plath, martyr and…
The Americans: The Democratic Experience, by Daniel J. Boorstin by David Donald After fifteen years and three quarters of a million words, Daniel J. Boorstin has completed his trilogy, The Americans.
The End of the Postwar Era by Fritz Stern When the Egyptians captured the thinly-held Bar-Lev Line, they shattered more than the illusions which a great victory had nurtured…
