Nicaraguan Journey by Stephen Schwartz I arrived in Nicaragua at the height of the recent confrontations between the Sandinistas and the country's internal opposition. Nicaragua…
Less Than One, by Joseph Brodsky by Fernanda Eberstadt In 1972, Joseph Brodsky, a poet with a prison record (for "parasitism") at home and a high critical reputation abroad,…
Lionel Trilling and His Critics by Lionel Abel A recent event in our literary life is probably not without political meaning: a number of writers who once sharply…
Middle East Perplexities by Elie Kedourie From World War I on, the Middle East has presented foreign and native policymakers with a large number of awkward…
Nicaraguan Journey by Stephen Schwartz I arrived in Nicaragua at the height of the recent confrontations between the Sandinistas and the country's internal opposition. Nicaragua…
Nuclear Ethics, by Joseph S. Nye, Jr. by David Gress Of the writing of books on nuclear weapons and morality there is no end. The current debate over nuclear ethics,…
Shades of Containment by Steven R. Sturm Politicians have the obligation to return to earth and to be made to see first, if ghostly, hand the remote…
Storm Over Biology, by Bernard D. Davis by Edward 0. Wilson The success of science is due in great part to its emphasis on objectivity: the separating of evidence from preconceptions…
Suing the Press, by Rodney A. Smolla; Talking Back to the Media, by Peter Hannaford by Daniel Casse At one time in this country, observes the constitutional scholar Walter Berns, there were two ways of dealing with journalists…
The FBI-KGB War, by Robert J. Lamphere and Tom Shachtman by Harvey Klehr For most of Robert Lamphere's fourteen years in the Federal Bureau of Investigation, he specialized in Soviet espionage cases. He…
The Hate That Dare Not Speak Its Name by Norman Podhoretz Last March, in a special issue commemorating its 120th anniversary, the Nation published an article by the novelist Gore Vidal…
The Mythmaker, by Hyam Maccoby by Jaroslav Pelikan The New Testament speaks of Jesus Christ as "a sign spoken against" and "a stone of stumbling." But at least…
The Powerful Simplifiers by John P. Sisk That notable economist, Henry David Thoreau, writes in Walden: "Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity I say, let your affairs be as two…
