The Judeo-Christian Tradition

Weimar Germany

Mrs. Monroe & Mme. Bovary

For the Record

TV Journal: The Fall Season

The media world is abuzz with speculation about revolutionary developments: more and better public television, new community cable systems that will offer a wide choice of programs, videotape cassettes that promise to release the viewer from fixed program schedules. In the midst of such heady visions, no one seems to have noticed that the current season on the commercial networks is the most promising one for several years.

Kennedyism

Can it be only ten years now since American society stood ready to be acted on by the Kennedys? Well, and if we find ourselves inclined to the utterance of such banalities as this, we cannot be entirely to blame.

Confessions of a Green Beret

I joined Army Special Forces in 1956, when that was still an innocent act. It was a Reserve Detachment, although nearly all of us had seen active duty in the Second World War or the Korean War.

Jewish Class Conflict?

In no other American election has "the Jewish vote" ever been so central to the strategy and tactics of the candidates, or so prominent in the news, commentaries, polls, and analysis, as in New York in 1969.

Is There a Jewish Vote?

By now it is widely acknowledged that Jews were the critical group in the New York mayoral election last November, but it is not immediately apparent why this was so.

The Political Thought of Herbert Marcuse

Marcuse has caught up with his following. "An Essay on Liberation" is a love-letter written to the young, and to the blacks too. But there was a time when Marcuse was above that sort of thing, his intellectualism proudly impervious to movements whose salient traits are, when viewed dogmatically, good looks and good intentions.

Allen Ginsberg and the 60's

It was almost two years ago, in the shabby auditorium of Columbia's Earl Hall, with its high crumbling plaster dome, that I last heard Allen Ginsberg read his poems. So it was the performer, the public Ginsberg, that many came to see, see even more than hear, that night in Earl Hall.

Assessing the Six-Day War

Two and a half years have now elapsed since the Arab-Israeli Six-Day War, and thus far the flood of literature on the conflict shows no signs of abating; indeed, the continuing state of hostility in the region seems to have encouraged a corresponding flow of ever-new analyses and proposals.

The Destruction of the Dutch Jews, by Jacob Presser

In the welter of historical confusion, it is often assumed that the Dutch, more than most other European populations, exerted special (and successful) efforts during the German occupation to save their fellow Jewish countrymen. The statistics, of course, indicate otherwise.

Two Dreisers, by Ellen Moers

Proponents of Theodore Dreiser's work have always found themselves in a nervous position, one that is, in a way, peculiarly American.

Religion and Change, by David L. Edwards; Alienation, Atheism, and the Religious Crisis, by Thomas F. O'Dea

The many-sidedness of theological study is nowadays taken for granted; likewise, the increasing difficulty, if not the impossibility, of producing an adequate theological synthesis.

The Four-Gated City, by Doris Lessing

The intent of Doris Lessing's "Children of Violence," a series of five novels of which "The Four-Gated City" is the last, has been to depict the life of a generation, the one born into the aftermath of the First World War and growing to maturity during the Second.

Ideology in America, by Everett Carll Ladd

Major political realignments have been rare in American history. The last occurred during the 30's, when Franklin Roosevelt molded a coalition of workers, Southerners, blacks, urbanites, and intellectuals into the majority party of the country.

The Truman Speech (Cont'd)

Orson Welles as Director

Liberalism at Issue

John V. Lindsay: A Political Portrait

Early this past November, in what was once a farmhouse in the northeast end of Manhattan Island, a tall, attractive native New Yorker in his late forties, John Vliet Lindsay, celebrated his re-election as 103rd Mayor of the City of New York.

Zionism for the 70's

Back in the mid-60's, in that period which through the violent lurch forward of subsequent events now seems almost at an archaeological distance from us, a young Israeli writer named Ehud Ben-Ezer began to conduct a series of interviews with prominent Israeli intellectuals under the general title, "The Price of Zionism."

Whatever Happened to Criticism?

Just when did criticism cease to be an influence?

The Paradox of Prosperity

The peoples of the Western world have come to experience a strange admixture of prosperity and disillusionment. This would have surprised our ancestors.

Home Is Two Places

Things are worse than many of us are admitting. I'm a brassbound optimist by habit--I'm an optimist in the same way that I am right-handed, and will always be. Aging used to be a slow process involving wasting less and less of one's energy. Now he's either young or on the shelf, and if he's on the shelf he's savage.

With-It Movies

When MGM, with early indications of having a loser on its hands in "2001," shifted the film's advertising campaign to tout it as the big trip movie, it soon became clear from the crowds of stoned under-thirties flocking to it that, given the right sales pitch, the young audience was as susceptible to consumer fraud as any other.

The Rise and Fall of the Man of Letters, by John Gross

Nothing assures us that literature is immortal, wrote Sartre in 1947, adding that the world can very easily do without literature.

The Crisis of Industrial Society, by Norman Birnbaum

It is not immediately obvious that Daniel Bell and Herbert Marcuse share the same analysis of Western society. Yet they, along with almost an entire generation of social thinkers, agree on basic structural tendencies.

The Family Carnovsky, by I. J. Singer; Steel and Iron, by I. J. Singer

In an era of novels in which the milieu is evoked with a stroke of the pen if it is rendered at all, in which the novelist's craft is praised in direct proportion to that amount he is able to show without telling, I. J. Singer comes to remind us of some long forgotten relish in the novelist's activities.

9 1/2 Mystics: The Kabbala Today, by Herbert Weiner

This is an engaging book. It is the story of a quest undertaken by a modern American Reform rabbi to understand something of the living reality of the Jewish mystical tradition.

Schlesinger, Chomsky, Abdel

A Reply from the Ripon Society

Jews & Christians

On “Envy”

Innocence Restaged

Ah, innocence! What would we Americans have for a subject without it? Now, of course, the mood these days is even more receptive than usual to the innocent.

Nixon So Far

Like Franklin Roosevelt, Richard Nixon came to the Presidency in the midst of a national crisis which had seriously eroded the authority of the office, and indeed of the government itself. To come to the Presidency under such circumstances is, in one sense, an extraordinarily difficult thing. At the same time, however, a President who takes power in a time of crisis and political disillusion possesses certain important initial advantages.

The Poverty of Affluence

If we are so rich, why do we feel so poor? As it concerns the fifth or so of Americans who subsist in official poverty, the question need not detain anyone.

The U.S., the Arabs & Israel

To what degree has the Nixon administration changed American policy in the Middle East? This question must be asked with increasing urgency in Jerusalem and, with a rather more hopeful note, in Cairo and Damascus.

Intermarriage & Jewish Survival

There is a new enthusiasm for the Jewish studies on campus. But whatever significance one may attach to this development, it is overshadowed by one persistent trend: the ever-increasing incidence of intermarriage between Jews and non-Jews.

Literary Gangsters

Recently I spent an evening with several culture heroes, current and past, and we got onto the subject of literary gangsters: hit-and-run journalists, without conscience, forced to live precariously by their wits.

The Future of Prediction

Despite the fact that a sizable portion of the under-thirty crowd is trying to make its preoccupation with NOW the special mark of the late 60's and early 70's, most of us of whatever age appear to be more concerned with the future.

Only One Year, by Svetlana Alliluyeva

In reviewing this book for the "New Yorker" Edmund Wilson characterized it as "a unique document" that will take its place "among the great Russian biographical works." This is a statement so fatuous as to leave one fairly gasping.

Money International, by Fred Hirsch

Rarely are there dramatic instances of the inextricable links among economics, finance, and politics. It cost the British more than three billion dollars in debts to learn a basic truth: money is not just some sort of totem.

The Intellectual Migration, edited by Bernard Bailyn and Donald Fleming; The Bauhaus, by Hans Wingler

Reading "The Intellectual Migration, Europe and America, 1930-1960" from cover to cover is an overwhelming experience.

Being Busted, by Leslie A. Fiedler

Leslie Fiedler, along with his wife, two sons, a daughter-in-law, and two friends of one of the sons, was busted in Buffalo in April 1967. Fiedler's version of the arrest is incomplete, but convincing as far as it goes.

The Education of Abraham Cahan, translated by Leon Stein, Abraham P. Conan, and Lynn Davison; The Downtown Jews, by Ronald Sanders

In the world of our fathers Abraham Cahan was a formidable presence.

Party History

Speaking of Hebrew

Agnew & Laqueur

Socialism

Allen Ginsburg

On Name-Calling

The TV Season Re-Viewed

Writing one of these quarterly reports inevitably involves a period of intensive viewing followed by a lapse back into old-fashioned alphabetic culture, as I brood over what has been seen. I seldom glance at any of the programs I have dealt with--but publication week always sends me uneasily back to the TV set to see whether once-confident judgments still seem valid.

Latin America: The Church Militant

One of the great religious dramas of our time is currently being enacted throughout the length and breadth of Latin America, which contains more than one-third of the world's Catholic population. The Roman Catholic Church in Latin America has been increasingly assuming a role not unlike that of the ancient Hebrew prophets in pointing to the injustices and disorders of society.

This Aquarian Age

Milton Himmelfarb's commentary on Juliusz Katz-Suchy, the New Left, the Black Panthers, Gallup polls on the future, making Judaism attractive, and superstition.

Imperialism: I

In an effort to establish an intellectually coherent account of the theory and practice of imperialism, George Lichtheim here explores the genesis and growth of those political structures that have called themselves empires, and offers a critical analysis of the specific ideologies which have provided those structures with a sense of value and purpose. This is the first of two parts.

Discourses of the Rabbis

Is it the mark of a good book that it forces the reader to share the author's absorption with the subject matter, or--on the contrary--that it is stimulating enough to take him beyond these immediate questions? Rabbi Braude showed his expertise and devotion to this subject some years ago in a two-volume study of the Midrash on Psalms.

Paranoia at the Movies

"They Shoot Horses, Don't They?" is a terrible and pretentious movie.

The American Negro: His History and Literature, edited by William Loren Katz

In 1887 the Reverend William J. Simmons, president of the State University at Louisville, Kentucky, published a book which raises virtually all the problems involved in writing the history of black men in the United States.

Tides of Fortune, by Harold Macmillan

Harold Macmillan, Britain's Prime Minister from 1956 to 1962 (the period bracketed by Suez and Profumo), was without doubt the most important and influential figure in British politics since Churchill.

Literature and the Sixth Sense, by Philip Rahv

"Literature and the Sixth Sense" is Philip Rahv's selection from thirty years of his literary criticism.

A Treasury of Yiddish Verse, edited by Irving Howe and Eliezer Greenberg

Of all literary forms, poetry is notoriously the most difficult to translate from the language in which it is written.

The Unique and the Universal

The Quotable Truman

On the Kennedys

Z: Politics on Film

In May 1963, Gregorios Lambrakis, professor of medicine at the University of Athens, opposition member of the Greek parliament, and leader of the Greek campaign for nuclear disarmament and against the deployment of American missiles in Greece, was conveniently run down by a motorcycle during a clash between his supporters and his opponents following a rally in Salonika.

Imperialism: II

The first part of this essay, published in these pages last month, was mainly intended to sketch in the background relevant to the general concept of imperialism in the modern world. This is the second part.

Translating the Bible

"The English translation of the Bible," remarked the 17-century antiquary John Selden, "is the best translation in the world, and renders the sense of the original best...." Selden was talking about the King James or Authorized Version of 1611.

The Obligations of Oppressed Minorities

Majority rule is the hardest question in democratic theory. What can possibly be said for allowing 51 per cent of the people to rule?

On Lea Goldberg & S. Y. Agnon

The early weeks of 1970 saw the passing of two remarkable Hebrew writers, one, S. Y. Agnon, who had achieved wide international recognition, the other, Lea Goldberg, scarcely known outside Israel.

Mr. Sammler's Planet, by Saul Bellow

A remarkable feature of Saul Bellow's career is that it is a kind of model of organic growth, his novels both alike and different, like a human being getting older.

The Supreme Court and the Idea of Progress, by Alexander M. Bickel

A liberal Supreme Court can count on automatic criticism from the political Right.

Smiling Through the Apocalypse, edited by Harold Hayes

To read around in "Smiling Through the Apocalypse" is to learn that one's caricature is unfair.

Jewish Philosophy in Modern Times, by Nathan Rotenstreich

Attempts to define the essence of Judaism have been made recurrently by Jewish thinkers over the centuries.

The Estate, by Isaac Bashevis Singer; The Promise, by Chaim Potok

Someone should say a cautionary word about sequels. To that end, Isaac Bashevis Singer has spoken eloquently, if indirectly.

The Enlightenment: Volume II, by Peter Gay

Professor Gay has concluded his twenty-year study of the Enlightenment with this second substantial volume, which is as admirably encyclopedic as the first.

Present at the Creation, by Dean Acheson

Dean Acheson's career, viewed as such things are viewed, has been distinguished, and attended by high compliments and consolations--honorary degrees from Harvard and Yale, and a steady rise through Washington to the Secretaryship of State. But it has carried painful ironies.

Lindsay

Intermarriage

Schlesinger vs. Chomsky

Author's Reply

Svetlana

Only Money

Reflections on Earth Day

Earth Day signified the acquiescence of most Americans in the idea that a crisis of dire proportions is upon us and that time is running out on our ability to do something about it.

The Palestinians and Israel

Three years have now passed since the Six-Day War, and there seems to be no end in sight to the impasse into which it has led Arab-Israeli relations.

Quackery in the Classroom

To begin on a note of solemn affirmation: I consider elementary and secondary education in this country to be nightmare almost unrelieved, and were I king, all that would remain would be a few of the handsomer buildings, an occasional administrator, some of the teachers, and all of the students.

In Sickness and in Health

In recent days doctors have become the targets of considerable anger. The reasons given for this anger are varied, ranging from the charge that not enough people are being given proper medical care to the complaint that doctors fail to react to patients as individuals.

Literary Revolutionism

Today, it is not only the literary avant-garde that is attracted to the idea of permanent revolution in both the artistic and the political field. There is scarcely a self-respecting left-wing writer who does not flaunt his revolutionary sentiments.

Joyce Carol Oates: Violence in the Head

In the last several years, Joyce Carol Oates has made a great impression. She has received many awards, including a Guggenheim Fellowship, a number of short-story prizes, and now the National Book Award for fiction. And indeed, her achievements are impressive.

Jesus and the Jews

The Jews have always been immensely suspicious of Christianity, both as a religion and for the effects on them of Christian societies; but their feelings about Jesus have been more ambivalent.

The Writing on the Wall and Other Literary Essays, by Mary McCarthy

If two pieces in Miss McCarthy's latest collection had been left out, her book would scarcely have needed to be noticed.

Odyssey of a Friend, edited by William F. Buckley, Jr.

Twenty years have passed since Alger Hiss's perjury conviction and almost a decade since Whittaker Chambers's death in 1961. Yet the Hiss case remains controversial today.

How to Talk Back to Your Television Set, by Nicholas Johnson

Nicholas Johnson, the outspoken member of the Federal Communications Commission who always seems to come down on the side of the angels in opposing such popular evils as Violence on Television, has written a book that is eminently plausible.

Judaism Despite Christianity, edited by Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy

Franz Rosenzweig is undoubtedly the secret (and often not so secret) saint of religious Jewish intellectuals. This is quite proper.

The Story of Rock, by Carl Belz; Rock and Roll Will Stand, edited by Greil Marcus; The Age of Rock, edited by Jonathan Eisen

One of the most interesting phenomena of the rock movement in recent years has been the attempt to establish rock's position as a valid aesthetic form within the Western cultural tradition.

The Future

On Gangsterism

Yiddish Culture

SST & GNP

Dutch Jewry

Middle East Policy

Nixon & Civil Rights

Weimar Germany

Agit-Prop & the Rosenbergs

The dominant "theater of propaganda" in the United States today is not an "official," government-sponsored one, as in Communist countries, but a semiofficial "revisionist" school of drama, which exploits and distorts historical facts for its own predetermined ends. A case in point is "Inquest."

First Things, and Last

Despite the invasion of Cambodia, the end of the Vietnam War is clearly in sight, for us at least if not for the Vietnamese themselves.

Urban Civilization & Its Discontents

It is in the nature of democratic countries that, sooner or later, all serious controversy--whether it be political, social, or economic--will involve an appeal to the democratic principle as the supreme arbiter of the rights and the wrongs of the affair.

Can Anti-Semitism Be Measured?

In an age when sociological scrutiny seems to extend into the most obscure corners of our experience, it may come as a surprise to learn that the phenomenon of anti-Semitism has received scant attention from American social scientists.

On the Passage of Time

What goes and what stays? What has changed and what is the same, and if there is any way of assessing the change, what is the referent we can use to measure it? Time has gone, all right.

The Shalit Case

The Jews, one hardly needs to be reminded, are a historical anomaly. However, I am increasingly skeptical whether in our lifetime any agency, group, or individual in Israel will even begin to find a generally satisfactory answer to the question, "Who is a Jew?"

The Radicalized Professor: A Portrait

This is the first in a series of portraits of familiar character-types in contemporary American culture.

The South and the Nation, by Pat Watters

Though Southern historical scholarship has gained in depth and precision during the past generation, no recent interpretation of the region has equaled W. J. Cash's "The Mind of the South."

The British Folklorists, by Richard M. Dorson; Peasant Customs and Savage Myths, edited by Richard M. Dorson

There are many anthropologists at work today but few folklorists. With the exception of the efforts of a few American academicians, folklore seems to have run its course so far as intellectual pretensions are concerned.

The Freudian Left, by Paul Robinson

Psychoanalysis, after years of bitter struggle, is by now securely established as part of the received mode of Western thought, and it does not appear likely that anything will unseat it in the foreseeable future.

Why Men Rebel, by Ted Robert Gurr

Some of the most persuasive arguments for the policy now called "benign neglect" are to be found in this book, although that is probably coincidence and certainly not the intention of the author.

Vital Parts, by Thomas Berger

It is my sad conviction that Thomas Berger will never achieve the recognition he deserves. Of his five novels only "Little Big Man," a mock epic about the American frontier, and his latest, "Vital Parts," have been reviewed intelligently.

Schools & Teaching

The Church

Croatian Saint?

Reflections on Earth Day

Obligations

Like Fathers, Like Sons

"In arguing that there is no great gap between the generations so far as political opinion goes, S.M. Lipset and Earl Raab are supported by all the hard evidence we have." Norman Podhoretz's introduction to an article by Earl Raab in the current issue.

The Question of Repression

It has been apparent since the 1969 inception of the New Mobe that its main business has not been to protest against the war, but to engage the sympathies of the war's opponents for a broad-spectrum attack on American society.

Holy, Holy, Holy ...

Business was poor for the Coptic priest in charge of the hindmost of the two tiny, domed, pillared chapels that stand back-to-back within the Church of the Holy Sepulcher.

The Non-Generation Gap

The idea of a generation gap is misleading, for the basic divisions in American society show up less clearly in any examination of the differences between the young and their elders than they do when one examines the differences within the younger generation itself.

The Grand Illusion: An Appreciation of Jacques Ellul

Jacques Ellul is a deeply respected lay theologian in the (Protestant) Reformed Church of France, and also professor of law and history at the University of Bordeaux. In order to understand Ellul's work one must recognize from the outset that his is a profoundly religious mind.

Is History Dead?

Three things have killed the past. The first is history itself.

The Working Theater

There was a picture of Noel Coward emerging from Buckingham Palace immediately after receiving his knighthood. He wore the proper morning-suit and, with gloved hands, leaned with the right amount of restrained aplomb upon a walking stick.

“Matzpen” and its Sponsors

The Committee on New Alternatives in the Middle East, according to Noam Chomsky, one of its founders, was established to promote discussion of the Arab-Israeli crisis, and specifically "to introduce left-wing voices that are rarely heard in the United States."

Zelda. A Biography, by Nancy Milford

Nancy Milford's biography of Zelda Fitzgerald brings us into an awareness of its subject so intense it seems unmediated by the personality of a biographer.

Social Policy, May/June 1970

"Social Policy" is a new journal devoted generally to social change, but specifically to a critical examination of the various agencies of social policy--in education, health, welfare, housing, manpower, training, and the like.

Birth Control in Jewish Law, by David M. Feldman

Judaism, classically speaking, is a religion grounded in law, the Halakhah, whose myriad particulars in their totality comprise the Jewish "way of life." This fact, however, has largely been obscured for most Jews and Christians alike.

Notebooks of a Dilettante, by Leopold Tyrmand

What is a European intellectual to think of America in the 60's and 70's? How is he to accommodate to it his own inheritance of weary schadenfreude, cultural complication, and acquaintance with the stale orgies of history?

Nothing But A Fine Tooth Comb, by David T. Bazelon

David Bazelon is a figure who in a quieter or more orderly century might be seen by its historians to have spanned ages.

Literary Extremism

The Question of the Palestinians

First Example

Writers and Revolution

The Lady & the Professors

Revolutionary Suicide

"In one sense, as Tom Milstein (p. 35) says and as he impressively demonstrates, the Black Panther party cannot be understood 'without reference to the recent history of the Negro movement.'" Norman Podhoretz's introduction to an article by Tom Milstein in the current issue.

M*A*S*H-22

After "Catch-22," carping at M*A*S*H-22 is inevitably carping at its critics.

A Perspective on the Panthers

The world of the Black Panther party might have been constructed by Kurt Vonnegut out of bits and pieces of Dostoevsky. It is a world of double and triple agents, radical rhetoric and reactionary consequences.

What is Society?-The Ideas of Andrea Caffi

Who was Caffi? A man of ideas, admired during his lifetime in Paris, in Leningrad, in Rome, and in Berlin, but always by a circle of friends.

The Future of Social Democracy

Is social democracy becoming the dominant species of politics in Western Europe? Is Europe haunted by a fresh specter--the resurgence of a non-Marxist social democracy?

The Traveler and His Telling-A Story

A story.

In Search of Cecil Roth

Cecil Roth--a magic name in a certain realm of Jewish history writing--died on June 21, 1970 in Jerusalem, at the age of seventy-one.

The Activist Cleric

This is the second of three portraits of familiar character types in contemporary American culture.

The End of the American Era, by Andrew Hacker

Andrew Hacker, a professor of government at Cornell and a regular contributor to these pages, is one of many people now concerned with what might be called the Condition-of-America Question.

In Praise of the Baal Shem Tov, translated and edited by Dan Ben-Amos and Jerome R. Mintz

We know almost nothing about Rabbi Israel ben Eliezer, whose teachings and preachments form the core of Hasidism, the movement that served to revivify the spirituality of Central and Eastern European Jewry two centuries ago and that has had a decisive influence on the piety and religious pedagogy of the Jewish people ever since.

Lindsay's Promise: The Dream that Failed, by Woody Klein

John V. Lindsay, perhaps more than any other figure in public life, has made of the "urban crisis" a platform upon which to build his career.

Going Steady, by Pauline Kael

Between people who go to the movies and real moviegoers there is a distinction akin to that between people who take a drink every now and then and alcoholics.

Technology and Growth: The Price We Pay, by E. J. Mishan; 21 Popular Economic Fallacies, by E. J. Mishan

From Thomas More to Bertrand Russell, England has bequeathed to the world more than its share of utopian cranks.

The Middle East and the Intellectuals

Ripostes

Folklore

The South

On Dying in Vain

Laws, Kings, and Cures

Reading Nathan Glazer's account (p. 74) of his transformation from a "mild radical" into a correspondingly mild conservative has set me to wondering about the not dissimilar course my own political development has taken since the early 60's.

The Liberated Woman

Though she was born into a very real world, and not a princess, it might be only a little fanciful to imagine that her birth was attended by a visitation of good fairies.

Cairo Journal

The present essay is based on Miss. Colebrook's visit to the Middle East in 1969.

Who Needs the Liberals?

One might have hoped that the two years since the defeats of 1968 would have produced a mood of reappraisal among American liberals, and some major new programs and strategy for this year and the difficult road to 1972. Yet the most important book since the Nixon election has been that of the young conservative, Kevin Phillips.

Catharsis, Linguistics & All That

Theories of poetry afford us a curious minor example of European mental processes.

On Being Deradicalized

How does a radical--a mild radical, it is true, but still someone who felt closer to radical than to liberal writers and politicians in the late 1950's--end up by early 1970 a conservative, a mild conservative, but still closer to those who now call themselves conservative than to those who call themselves liberal?

Eliot, Lawrence & the Jews

Whenever traces of anti-Semitism appear in writers of major importance, I suspect that most readers are inclined either to dismiss the whole matter as an inconvenient but incidental prejudice of the author, or, alternately, to respond in mere indignation and, by so doing, to assume that hostility towards Jews is everywhere the same.

The World the Slaveholders Made, by Eugene D. Genovese

Like Eugene Genovese's previous studies of the ante-bellum South, the two essays which comprise this book attempt to examine slave societies through the prism of social class rather than by focusing primarily on race relations.

Managing Mailer, by Joe Flaherty

In the spring of 1969, the prevalent anti-Lindsay mood in New York appeared strong enough to sweep any Democrat into office in November.

Germans and Jews, by George Mosse

American intellectuals, in their current agony, have constructed a virtual Doppelganger out of the turbulent life and premature death of the Weimar Republic.

The Strawberry Statement, by James Simon Kunen; Push Comes to Shove, by Steven Kelman

Among distinctions between the Now Generation and its antediluvian predecessors is that today's young field marshals (and corporals) write their memoirs before retiring.

The Idea of Crisis

"As between Jerome Zukosky (p. 40), who argues that the urban crisis is largely an 'insubstantial construct,' and Irving Kristol (p. 44), who considers the crisis real but rooted far more deeply in the ideas so many of us carry around in our heads, I myself on the whole tend to agree with Mr. Kristol." Norman Podhoretz's introduction to articles by Jerome Zukosky and Irving Kristol in the current issue.

The Rosenbergs

Who Is a Jew

Repression, Right and Left

Anti-Semitism, Survey-Analysis & Assimilation

“Issues” & August

Israel and the Palestinians

Is the Urban Crisis Real?

The following exchange was occasioned by Irving Kristol's "Urban Civilization & Its Discontents" which appeared in July.

The Case of the “New York Review&rdquo

According to a current study of the politics of the "intellectual elites" in a number of countries, the four journals read most regularly by chairmen of humanities and social-science departments are "The New York Review of Books," "Commentary," "Partisan Review," and "Dissent."

Jews in the Mind of France

In France, where nearly all the scenes of the modern Jewish dilemma have been dramatically enacted since the end of the 18th century, the curtain has again risen on a weird performance.

Nixon, the Senate & the War

In October Of 1967, Richard Nixon published an article in Foreign Affairs entitled "Asia After Vietnam." Nixon's central conception was that America should remain a power in the Pacific region and should help shape the political future of the Far East.

In Hitler's Service

The ablest and "least corrupted" member of Hitler's court--thus did H. R. Trevor-Roper characterize Albert Speer, Hitler's architect and wartime Minister of Armaments. Sentenced at Nuremberg to twenty years' imprisonment for his use of concentration-camp labor, Speer is now one of the last survivors of Hitler's court.

Movie Chronicle

From the moment Mick Jagger's fat lips form themselves inexpressively around the words, "This is how they shall remember me," one knows one is in With-It Land.

Islands in the Stream, by Ernest Hemingway

The second of Ernest Hemingway's books to be published posthumously, "Islands in the Stream" antedates the first from the point of view of composition by approximately ten years.

The New Reformation, by Paul Goodman

Although he was a prophet of the youth movement, Paul Goodman's position now demands more sympathy than awe.

Arguments and Doctrines, edited by Arthur A. Cohen

Jewish thought in the modern period has been less a continuation of traditional modes than a series of responses to historical events impinging on Jewish existence.

Bech: A Book, by John Updike

When some time ago in these pages Alfred Chester flicked Updike off as a magician of surfaces, I wrote in my head the imaginary counter-review: Updike as Late Church Father.

The New Hypocrisies

"As David L. Bromwich (p. 55) A suggests, the counter-culture, previously thought to be the way of life of a tiny minority of the 'alienated' young at war with the attitudes and values of the general run of their own contemporaries, has now been accorded a kind of de jure diplomatic recognition by the United States government itself." Norman Podhoretz's introduction to an article by David L. Bromwich in the current issue.

Pollution & Democracy

Anti-Semitism of the Intellectuals?

Social Policy

The Question of Arab Terrorism

For the Record

Clergymen

“The Green Berets”

The Deadly Innocences of American Jews

In 1902, American Jews asked their government to protest the persecution of Jews in Rumania. The Roosevelt administration, having nothing to lose, sent such a protest on grounds that the persecuted refugees were fleeing to America.

The Counter-Culture and its Apologists:1 - An Epistle to the Americans

First, the politics of the matter. Is it possible to dislike Spiro T. Agnew and also dislike the Scranton Report? The answer is yes. Can one like Agnew and like the Report? Yes.

The Counter-Culture and Its Apologists:2 - Consciousness III

This past September the New Yorker published a long article, "The Greening of America," by Charles A. Reich, associate professor at the Yale Law School, setting off thereby an extraordinary literary and political event.

The Counter-Culture and Its Apologists:3 - Lysergic Gotterdammerung

As everyone knows, the word "culture" carries with it several possible meanings. A "new" culture is emerging primarily among students.

Babysitting A Story

A story.

Terrorism & Preventive Detention: The Case of Israel

Fawzi al-Asmar is a twenty-three year-old Arab citizen of Israel. He used to write his poems at home in Lydda near the Tel Aviv International Airport. Now he writes them in Damon Prison overlooking Haifa Bay.

The Topless Tower of Babylon

The myth of Eden explains why we are unhappy. Knowledge and thought, sundering us from the animal life of instinct, have given us shame and guilt.

Sex and Armaggedon

We are clearly caught up, and rather violently, in one of our periodic attempts to force the rhetoric of "Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness" into the remotest corners of our national life.

The Coming Crisis in Western Sociology, by Alvin W. Gouldner

In the social sciences, at least, no group of academics has been more sympathetic to the students of the New Left than have sociologists, and David Riesman has even contended that the profession has contributed in some measure to the development of the movement.

Class Struggle in the Pale, by Ezra Mendelsohn

Shortly after the Second World War, perhaps in response to the fact that the world of the East European Jews had been destroyed forever, there began to appear a certain interest among American intellectuals in the life of the shtetl.

In Quest of Justice: Protest and Dissent in the Soviet Union Today, edited by Abraham Brumberg

I have before me a petition, signed by some forty men and women, pleading for their right to return to the ancestral lands from which they had been driven twenty odd years ago.

Standing Fast, by Harvey Swados

One comes away from Harvey Swados's new novel with the impression that it was once the most natural thing in the world for normal and even conventional people to adhere to the Trotskyist political philosophy.