Family and Community in the Kibbutz, by Yonina Talmon by Marshall Sklare With certain exceptions, academic interest in the kibbutz has by and large not been impelled by a desire to understand…
Family Reunion by Leslie H. Farber Social critics often decry the absence of ritual in our culture, noting that our hunger for ritual leads us to…
Is Israel Losing Popular Support? by Earl Raab Perhaps the clearest lesson of the Yom Kippur war is that Israel is now almost absolutely dependent on the United…
Kind and Usual Punishment, by Jessica Mitford by Marc F. Plattner Scarcely a single social critic has a good word for the American penal system; its glaring defects, virtually all agree,…
O’Neill Reconsidered by Jack Richardson I first saw Long Day's Journey into Night in Paris. The time was the late 50's and some sort of…
Prisoners of War by Joan Colebrook A trip to New York City, to see what light may be thrown by recent returnees from Vietnam upon a…
Responses, by David Cairns by B. H. Haggin The music critic is the professional listener, presumed to have an equipment of perception, judgment, and taste which the nonprofessional…
Roberto Clemente: Batting King, by Arnold Hano by Edward Grossman What comes to mind first, and most vividly, is the way, during his last years, Roberto Clemente would roll and…
Season’s End by William S. Pechter Around September every year, I begin to recognize the symptoms. My palms sweat. I'm nervous, irritable. Above all, I'm filled…
That Old-Time Religion by James Hitchcock Developments in American popular religion in the past five years seem designed to confound anyone's confidence in his own prophetic…
The Oath, by Elie Wiesel by Leon Wieseltier Elie Wiesel has been working at his fiction of suffering for a quarter of a century. His personal project has…
The World of I.L. Peretz by Irving Howe It is customary to speak of three figures -Mendele Mokher Sforim, Sholem Aleichem, and I. L. Peretz-as the founders of…
Watergate and the Legal Order by Alexander Bickel Months ago, when the scandals of the Nixon administration were fewer and relatively simpler, there was some self-serving talk of…
