“The Old Glory” Reconsidered by Peter Shaw When The Old Glory, Robert Lowell's trilogy of plays, was first produced in 1964, it appeared to offer a new…
American Jewish Writing, Act II by Ruth R. Wisse The career of American Jewish literature would seem to have reached a turning point. Over the past three decades, Jewish…
An Answer to Lillian Hellman by Nathan Glazer Lillian Hellman, in Scoundrel Time, tells the story of her appearance before the House Un-American Activities Committee in 1952, and…
Anatomy and Destiny, by Stephen Kern by Commentary Bk Stephen Kern's Anatomy and Destiny is a "cultural history of the human body" over the last one-hundred-fifty years.
Children of the Sun, by Martin Green by Robert Alter This study of the Bright Young People who came to prominence in British intellectual life in the years after World…
Democracy According to Whitman by Alfred Kazin Although Walt Whitman was a journalist before he was a poet, and with the publication of Leaves of Grass in…
Discriminating Against Discrimination, by Robert M. O’Neil by William Petersen Marco DeFunis, Jr., a white Jewish member of Phi Beta Kappa with a high B average in undergraduate courses, applied…
Mumford’s Utopia by Roger Starr The publication last year of Lewis Mumford's twenty-fifth book, Findings and Keepings, coincided with his eightieth birthday and provides the…
Richard Strauss & His Critics by Samuel Lipman Though his later operas are all but ignored in current American musical life, the fact that no fewer than four…
Schooling in Capitalist America, by Samuel Bowles and Herbert Gintis by Chester E. Finn Liberal critiques of American education typically stress either the inequalities or the brutalities of schooling.
The Origins of Zionism, by David Vital by Amos Elon In modern Jewish history, the year 1881 is the great divide. The publication in Germany in the fall of that…
The Soviet-Egyptian “Rift” by Uri Ra'anan For the fourth time since 1959 the Western public is being inundated with stories alleging that Moscow and Cairo have…
