Marxism: For and Against, by Robert L. Heilbroner by Sidney Hook This is an intriguing title: it arouses expectations of a judicious and balanced evaluation of the specific doctrines of Marx…
Analysis Terminable by Frederick C. Crews To people who take their cues from the intellectual fashions of academe, any speculation about the decline and fall of…
Conscience and Convenience, by David J. Rothman by Gerald N. Grob In recent decades two approaches have dominated the writing of American history. Nowhere is the second approach better illustrated than…
Knowledge and Decisions, by Thomas Sowell by Robert A. Nisbet During the past decade Thomas Sowell, who is professor of economics at UCLA, has made evident through a considerable range…
Living in Jidda by Dale Walker Many of us here live in compounds. This is not done, as in other colonial arrangements, to protect ourselves from…
Marge Piercy and Ann Beattie by Pearl K. Bell Marge Piercy is a prolific novelist and poet, a one-time organizer for SDS, who has become a spokesman for radical…
Marxism: For and Against, by Robert L. Heilbroner by Sidney Hook This is an intriguing title: it arouses expectations of a judicious and balanced evaluation of the specific doctrines of Marx…
Stranded: Rock and Roll for a Desert Island, edited by Greil Marcus by Rick Richman Popular music in America now outgrosses the combined revenue of movies, theater, opera, ballet, and sport. "Rock criticism" is another…
The Left Against Zion, edited by Robert S. Wistrich by Eric M. Breindel Few who have watched it unfold can have failed to note that the international propaganda campaign against the Zionist movement…
The Rise & Fall of the New Foreign-Policy Establishment by Carl Gershman When President Carter said that the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan had caused him "drastically" to alter his perception of Soviet…
Why Weill? by Samuel Lipman Suddenly, within the limited World of New York opera, Kurt Weill is all the rage.
