Liberals & the Presidency by Paul H. Weaver Among the many reversals of ideological role that have taken place in American politics in recent years, perhaps the most…
Christian Theology and the Holocaust by Frank Talmage Within a year of the liberation of France from the Nazis, a book appeared in Paris by a prominent Catholic…
Conspiracy Fever by Jacob Cohen How can one explain the extraordinary degree of political distrust and, beyond that, the pervasive taste for mystery and conspiracy…
How to Increase Poverty by Stanley Lebergott There exist at least eight reliable ways to increase poverty. The United States now pursues seven of them.
Liberals & the Presidency by Paul H. Weaver Among the many reversals of ideological role that have taken place in American politics in recent years, perhaps the most…
Pictures of the Jewish Past by Lucy S. Dawidowicz Though words have always counted for more than pictures in the Jewish tradition, when photography came to Eastern Europe-a bit…
Race and Economics, by Thomas Sowell by Elliott Abrams Racial and ethnic relations in the United States have long been seen as a great morality play in which injustice…
Ragtime, by E. L. Doctorow by Hilton Kramer The hosannas that have greeted E. L. Doctorow's Ragtime, elevating the book to instant commercial success and its author to…
The Divided Academy: Professors and Politics, by Everett Carll Ladd, Jr., and Seymour Martin Lipset; Education and Politics at H by Chester E. Finn In the spring of 1969, after the most violent campus disruption of Harvard's recent history, the Faculty of Arts and…
The Intelligent Radical’s Guide to Economic Policy, by James E. Meade by Oscar Gass James Meade, a former president of the Royal Economic Society, has published (in England) one of those rare economics books…
The Letters and Papers of Chaim Weizmann, Vols. III-VII, General Editor, Meyer W. Weisgal by Chaim Raphael The letters and papers of Chaim Weizmann began to be collected for publication, under the guidance of his devoted disciple…
The New Laureates by John Romano They are the two poets most closely attended to by poetry's present audience, the poets of their generation most often…
The Palestinian Myth by David Gutmann Stateless people, marginal to every society, carry with them the aura, the mystery, of the stranger. Seeming not quite human,…
Watching the Sit-Coms by Dorothy Rabinowitz Amos n' Andy are long gone, but changing tastes, increased sophistication, and the jading plenitude that television has provided over…