When the Going Was Good!, by Jeffrey Hart by Ronald Berman One of the problems for the conservative imagination in this country is that it has had no recent experience in…
Appropriating the Holocaust by Henryk Grynberg The Holocaust must have been a great shock to Christian consciousness. Why else would Pope John XXIII have cried out-as…
Culture Among the Nations by Dorothy Rabinowitz The Second UNESCO World Conference on Cultural Policies convened in Mexico City from July 26 to August 6. The following…
Evolution and Its Discontents by Jeffrey Marsh It is now a full century since Charles Darwin died, but the theory of evolution associated with his name remains…
Is the Jewish Community Split? by Earl Raab According to Time magazine in September, "Most American Jews are apprehensive, if not heartsick about the anguished debate that has…
Managers of Virtue: Public School Leadership in America, 1820-1980, by David Tyack and Elisabeth Hansot by David L. Kirp Books whose nominal subject is the history of schooling in America have often been thinly disguised didactics, with less to…
Shostakovich in Four Parts by Samuel Lipman When Dmitri Shostakovich died in Moscow seven years ago, he was mourned in his homeland as a great Soviet composer.…
The Killing of Bonnie Garland, by illard Gaylin by Naomi Munson In the early morning hours of July 7, 1977, Richard Herrin, a recent Yale graduate, sat in his estranged girlfriend's…
The Mandarin and the Commissar by Leopold Tyrmand I went to China. What I was most interested in seeing and probing was the difference between Chinese Communism and…
The Past Has Another Pattern, by George W. Ball by Arch Puddington Although he has not held an important government position since briefly serving as U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations in…
The Politics of Welfare, by Blanche Bernstein by Roger Starr Blanche Bernstein is a public official who has become anathema to her former colleagues in the social-welfare community. In their…
The Worm in the Big Apple by John P. Sisk In Europe my wife and I were always aware that we were moving about in a violent world where kidnappings,…
When the Going Was Good!, by Jeffrey Hart by Ronald Berman One of the problems for the conservative imagination in this country is that it has had no recent experience in…
