Beyond the Ivory Tower, by Derek Bok by Werner J. Dannhauser According to Derek Bok, president of Harvard, the ivory tower no longer serves as an image for the modern American…
Countdown: The Polish Upheavals of 1956, 1968, 1970, 1976, 1980, by Jakub Karpinski; The Polish August, by Neal Ascherson; Polan by Arch Puddington There are many differences between the Solidarity revolution in Poland and previous East European upheavals, not the least of which…
How to Think About Nuclear War by Edward N. Luttwak Now that the United States is belatedly acting to restore a tolerable balance in forces nuclear as well as conventional,…
Of Time and the River Jordan by Glenn Loney In Joe Orton's Entertaining Mr. Sloane, the middle-aged Kath, eager to suggest an innocence she doesn't possess, assures Sloane, the…
Psychiatrist of America: The Life of Harry Stack Sullivan by Barbara Lerner Harry Stack Sullivan is one of the most important and least known social scientists of this century. Some of his…
Read Marguerite Yourcenar! by Joseph Epstein In an attempt to arouse interest in the novels of Marguerite Yourcenar, a writer I much admire, perhaps I could…
Summertime Visions by Richard Grenier With all the attitudes and institutions that the great Western nations have in common, there are still sharp differences among…
The Great Code, by Northrop Frye by Michael Fixler Serious reading of the Bible is not an occasional pastime but a steady absorption, involving reading and rereading, deriving from…
The Life You Gave Me by Bette Howland So my father is going to be all right. That's what my mother said as soon as we met at…
The Theory and Practice of Anti-Semitism by Michael R. Marrus In a book published in 1950, a distinguished veteran of the fight against European anti-Semitism argued that the Nazi Holocaust…
The Underclass, by Ken Auletta by Chester E. Finn "I absolutely believe it is outrageous and totally immoral not to require work in exchange for every dollar of welfare…
