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January, 1978Why Arms Control Has FailedOVER the last decade, the strategic competition between the United States and the Soviet Union has been transformed. Edmund Wilson vs. AmericaThe United States is not a nation in the sense that England or France is. It is a society, a political system, which is still in an experimental state. Carter in Asia: McGovernism without McGovernTHE Carter administration has undertaken three major foreign-policy initiatives in East Asia. Each of them is questionable on its individual merits, and all are questionable in terms of what... Soviet Psychiatry on TrialTHE Norwegian psychiatrist said he was worried. He was sure that his Soviet colleagues were abusing their profession in order to suppress dissent. But he was afraid that if the World Psychiatric... Tiny GorillasA Story. Performing the “Ring&rdquoWHAT are we to do about Richard Wagner? Nothing in the years since his death in 1883 has succeeded in mitigating the essential unpleasantness of his personality. Indeed, few men in... New Israeli WritingTHE state of Israel was conceived by force of a messianic vision, but its existence has been maintained by order, sacrifice, and the rational setting of priorities-and this in the face of... Chinese Shadows, by Simon LeysSINCE Marco Polo, Western visitors to China have been awed by China's achievements or repelled by its backwardness-or simply confounded by its complexities. And for centuries, accounts... Just and Unjust Wars, by Michael WalzerJust and Unjust Wars is a J thoughtful, generally well-written and lucid, and often but by no JOSEPH W. BISHOP, JR. is Richard Ely Professor of Law at Yale. means always persuasive essay... The Politics of Defeat, by Joseph Churba; Honor the Promise, by Robert F. DrinanNO MATTER what happens between Egypt and Israel in the near future, these two stimulating and useful books about Israel and the United States are not likely to become obsolete. They are... The War Against the Automobile, by B. Bruce-BriggsMOST Americans, in company with an ever-growing number of other inhabitants of the world, regard private automotive transport as a fundamental constituent of the good life, coming just... The Memoirs of Earl Warren, by Earl WarrenHEINRICH HEINE once observed that the reason no one had written a biography of Immanuel Kant was that he did not have one. It would be unjust to say the same of the late Earl... Delmore Schwartz, by James AtlasDELMORE SCHWARTZ burst upon the literary world in 1937, when his story, "In Dreams Begin Responsibilities," was selected as the lead offering in the first issue of the new Partisan Review.... February, 1978Vietnam: New Light on the Question of American GuiltUNDER Executive Orders 10501 and 10816 promulgated by President Eisenhower, and Executive Order 11652 issued by President Nixon on March 8, 1972, the secretaries of the military services have discretionary authority to allow access to classified defense information to qualified researchers from outside the executive department. Post-MortemA Story. The World & President CarterAMONG the more engaging features of the American political system is the custom of extending wide indulgence to every incoming administration, both in foreign policy and in domestic affairs. The Zeppelin-A MemoirA Memoir. Paul Goodman in Retrospect"A VOICE a good deal undervalued is that of Paul Goodman," wrote a reviewer in Book Week, roughly a decade ago-or precisely at the time'when, far from being undervalued, Paul Goodman's career was very much in the ascendant. France's “New Philosophers&rdquoMUCH has been written in the press on both sides of the Atlantic in the past twelve months about a group of young French writers who have turned against the Marxist inheritance. The Romance of American Communism, by Vivian GornickON STALINISM, at least, one might have thought the verdict was in for all time, but no such luck. The revisionist impulse peeping shyly from every publisher's list grows fatter and bolder with... The Rise of American Philosophy, by Bruce KuklickTHE subject of this book is the extraordinary philosophic fertility of which Harvard University was the scene and source from the middle of the 19th century through the first two decades of... Farewell, Israel!, by Ephraim SevelaEPHRAIM SEVELA was once a noted Jewish activist in the Soviet Union; on February 24, 1971, he helped to organize a hunger strike by twenty-four Jews in the reception room of the Supreme... Black Workers in White Unions, by William B. GouldTHE debate over preferential treatment for minority groups, an issue demonstrably capable of arousing strong passions in Americans, has intensified with the furor generated by the Bakke case.... The Economic War Against the Jews, by Walter Henry Nelson and Terence PrittieONE of the most striking manifestations of Arab hostility to Israel is the economic boycott administered by the Arab League, which seeks to isolate the Jewish state from normal commercial... March, 1978The Middle East: For a Separate PeaceSELDOM HAS a diplomatic move been subjected to as much speculation as Anwar Sadat's initiative in going to Jerusalem. Among the South AfricansTHE FLIGHT. On the plane from London to Johannesburg there were no fewer than two relations of mine, neither of whom I had ever seen before. I was introduced in the departure lounge to one-a... The Rediscovery of the FamilyA FUNNY thing happened on the way to developing a radical critique of the American family: it has turned out that the old model was not so bad after all. Politics and Amnesty InternationalAMNESTY INTERNATIONAL is an independent human-rights organization which issues regular reports on violations of human rights throughout the world and works for the release of what it calls Prisoners of Conscience. Modernism, the Germans & the JewsTHE modern historical fate of Jews among the German-speaking peoples is a continuing source of puzzlement, wonder, and brooding reflection. Does Performance Matter?IT IS a commonplace idea that performance is of great importance in the communication of serious music. A Novelist Under CommunismNO MATTER how often and graphically we are told of the physical and psychological pressures that afflict the writers of Eastern Europe, it remains difficult for us to understand fully and conretely how the policing of the imagination and all its works affects the life of such a writer. Anne Sexton: A Self-Portrait in Letters, edited by Linda Gray Sexton and Lois AmesIN THE fall of 1974 Anne Sexton committed suicide by asphyxiating herself in the garage of her home in Weston, Massachusetts. This end had not been unexpected. When, as the editors of this... Our Children's Crippled Future, by Frank E. Armbruster with Paul BrackenTHAT this flawed, badly-written book must be judged useful to our understanding of American education is a sign of how much trouble the schools are in, and how unhelpful most public... Image Before My Eyes, by Lucjan Dobroszycki and Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett; An Illustrated Sourcebook on the Holocaust, by Zosa SzajkowskiWHEN the Book of Lamentations of our time is composed, it may well take the form of RUTH R. WISSE teaches Yiddish literature at McGill University and is the author of The Schlemiel as... One L, by Scott TurowTHE majestic reputation of the Harvard Law School is built in part on fancy and in part on fact; it is part fancy and part fact that every year, 550 of the country's brightest young men and... The Cop Who Would Be King, by Joseph R. Daughen and Peter BinzenFRANK RIzzo, the son of an Italian immigrant, never finished high school. Like his father, he became a policeman, and seemed destined to live out his life in the upper reaches of the... The Vast Majority, by Michael HarringtonIN The Vast Majority, Michael Harrington, who is identified on the book's jacket as "the most eminent social critic, activist, and socialist in this country," purports to offer an analysis of... April, 1978Capitalism, Socialism, and DemocracyA Symposium. The Hill of Evil CounselA Story. Staging England's DeclineTHE English theater's formula for success seems to be a cormbination of modest plays and superb acting. The Wars of James JonesTHROUGHOUT his career as a novelist, James Jones, who died last spring at the age of fifty-five, was a self-willed anachronism out of step with his literary generation. (Jones, Norman Mailer, Joseph Heller, and Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. were all born in the early 1920's.) Adlai Stevenson of Illinois; Adlai Stevenson and the World, by John Bartlow MartinTHE publication of John Bartlow Martin's definitive biography of Adlai Stevenson brings to our attention once again Stevenson's curious position in the recent history of the Democratic... Jewish Identity, by Simon N. HermanSIMON N. HERMAN, who is on the faculty of the Hebrew University, has devoted his scholarly career to the study of contemporary Jewish life from the perspective of the social sciences. His... The Physicists, by Daniel J. KevlesDANIEL J. KEVLES here provides the first general account of the role of physicists in American society from the period following the Civil War to the present. In addition to covering the... The Political, Social, and Religious Thought of Russian Samizdat, edited by Michael Meerson-Aksenov and Boris ShraginTHE institution of samizdat ("self-publication")-a term by now so accepted in English as to have earned entry into the Third Edition of Webster's International Dictionary-has gone through... May, 1978Living with QuotasSEVERAL MONTHS ago, former President Gerald Ford spoke to a politicalscience class at my university. During the question period that followed he was asked for his views on the Bakke case, and... Hiss, Oswald, the KGB, and UsONE of the most durable and most damaging legacies of McCarthyism has been the besmirching of the good name of anti-Communism, and the attendant evisceration of American liberalism. Why Auschwitz Was Never BombedA RECURRING question since World War II has been why the United States rejected requests to bomb the gas chambers and crematoria at Auschwitz, or the railroads leading to Auschwitz. After the Dominoes FellIT IS now almost three years since Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos fell to the Communists. During the war, so much attention was focused on the mistakes of U.S. policy and on the undemocratic practices of the government we were supporting that a complacent attitude developed toward the consequences of a Communist victory for the people in Indochina. Can Democracy Defend Itself against Terrorism?ON MARCH 17, the Bregate Rosse (Red Brigades), an Italian version (and probably an affiliate) of the German BaaderMeinhof gang, kidnapped Aldo Moro, five times Premier of Italy, and in cold blood murdered his five guards. From Moscow to Jerusalem-and Points West"YOU'RE a strange fellow," a recent Jewish immigrant from the Soviet Union to Israel observed half-jokingly to me at a gathering in Jerusalem. In Praise of RachmaninoffTHE recent appearance of Vladimir Horowitz with the New York Philharmonic and Eugene Ormandy in Carnegie Hall-interesting for so many reasons both historical and contemporary-provided yet another manifestation of the present gulf between public taste and advanced musical opinion. Abba Eban: An AutobiographyABBA EBAN'S new Autobiograaphy, written in the author's customary sparkling prose, will attract the close scrutiny of journalists and academics concerned with Middle East politics. Like... Freaks, by Leslie FiedlerTHERE has always been something ambiguous in the brilliance of Leslie Fiedler. His notorious essay of 1948, "Come Back to the Raft Ag'in, Huck Honey!," still leaves readers uncertain as to... Grassroots: The Autobiography of George McGovernDURING his ill-fated quest for the Presidency, George McGovern succeeded in generating more controversy than most politicians encounter in a lifetime. As this book makes clear, neither the... Discipline and Punish, by Michel FoucaultMICHEL FOUCAULT is one of the most influential contemporary thinkers of France. In two decades of writing on the ways the state invades and controls the lives of individuals, he has had a... The Giants: Russia and America, by Richard J. BarnetTHERE are three things wrong With this book, which is both a product and an example of the revisionist school of the cold war. The first is the author's image of the Soviet Union; the second,... June, 1978Imperial GovernmentTHE question of size and of effectiveness in American government is beginning to take on aspects of constitutional as against merely political debate. Arms and the Saudi ConnectionTHE connection between the United States and Saudi Arabia, long considered a well established partnership, recently has been elevated in official parlance to the status of a "special... Are Quotas Good for Blacks?RACE has never been an area noted for rationality of thought or action. Almost every conceivable form of nonsense has been believed about racial or ethnic groups at one time or another. The Education of Alfred KazinTHERE is something hauntingly American about the career of Alfred Kazin. Buggings, Break-Ins & the FBITHE indictment, on April 10, of three former high-ranking officials of the Federal Bureau of Investigation for having directed agents to use surreptitious entries raises important questions. Reflections and AphorismsIN A dream I saw myself in Goethe's study. Meyer Levin's ObsessionsONE cold Sunday early this spring, Meyer Levin came to Cambridge, at the invitation of the Harvard-Radcliffe Zionist Alliance, to address a regrettably small audience on the question, "What Is Israel?" The Great Fear, by David CauteMOST accounts of the postWorld War II period used to assign to the Soviet Union a major share of responsibility for the coming of the cold war, and assign to Senator Joseph McCarthy a... Rachel, the Rabbi's Wife, by Silvia TennenbaumI BELIEVE it was Gypsy Rose Lee who said, "You gotta get a gimmick if you wanna get ahead." The story of the frustrated housewife whose personal and professional development is... Persona Non Grata, by Jorge EdwardsSHORTLY after his election in S September 1970, President Salvador Allende announced-to the surprise of nobody-that Chile would resume the diplomatic relations broken with Cuba ten... Himself!, by Eugene Kennedy"HIMSELF" is an old Gaelic term of affection and respect for the leader, and a fine title SETH CROPSEY is on the staff of Fortune. for Eugene Kennedy's biography of Richard J. Daley. Tfe... The Antitrust Paradox, by Robert H. BorkTHE ANTITRUST PARADOX: A POLICY AT WAR WITH ITSELF. By ROBERT H. BORK. Basic Books. 462 pp. $18.00. Reviewed by SUZANNE WEAVER rTHE antitrust laws were passed and began to be enforced at... July, 1978Is Peace Still Possible in the Middle East?: The Role of the United StatesTHE history of America's Middle East Policy since 1973 is marked by an apparent paradox. When measured by the scope of its aims and the degree of its involvement, this policy plainly seems... Is Peace Still Possible in the Middle East?: The View from Tel AvivTEL AVIV. To comment today, and from Israel, on the prospects of peace and war in the Middle East has become a more painful endeavor than at any time in the past. It is easy enough to point to... Is Peace Still Possible in the Middle East?: The Egyptian PerspectiveSINCE the war of October 1973, Egypt's President Sadat has increasingly thrown in his lot with the United States. His westward reorientation of Egyptian policy seems to have been supported... Is Peace Still Possible in the Middle East?: A Skeptical ViewIT is becoming increasingly difficult to envision a near-term breakthrough in the current round of Middle East negotiations. Between Egypt's position that Israel must relinquish "every square... The Paper RouteBEING a paper boy has got to be the most demeaning job in the world, especialmente if you happen to be twenty-seven years old. I wasn't one for very long, and I don't even know how I got to be... Rx for the NovelOUGHT critics to prescribe what art should be? Probably notbut try stopping them. From Aristotle instructing upon those qualities Which will satisfy the definition of a tragedy to F.R.... Stravinsky's StatureLESS than a decade after Igor Stravinsky's death in 1971, just two months short of his eighty-ninth birthday, the essential verdict on his music is in. That verdict, arrived at, as... Two Cheers for Capitalism, by Irving KristolIRVING KRISTOL is often called a "neoconservative," but what he attempts in Two Cheers for Capitalism is a liberal critique of both corporate capitalism and socialism. Of the thirty-one... Abortion in America, by James C. Mohr; The Ambivalence of Abortion, by Linda Bird FranckeJAMES C. MOHR's Abortion in America is a scholarly history ot the origins of the 19th-century anti-abortion laws that were more or less in force until 1973, when they were overturned by the... The Guggenheims, by John H. DavisMONEY, really big money, is perhaps our last emotional frontier: most people are shameless voyeurs where the very rich are concerned, insatiably curious as to how they got their money,... Inside East Germany, by Jonathan SteeleEAST GERMANY long constituted a veritable terra incognita to all but a tiny handful of Western specialists. For approximately two decades after its establishment on the territory of the Soviet... While Messiah Tarried, by Nora LevinEAST European Jews and their descendants have historically been quite susceptible to the blandishments of socialism. In the socialist movement Jews could feel themselves members of a... Final Entries 1945: The Diaries of Joseph Goebbels, edited by Hugh Trevor-RoperNOT even the publishers of Final Entries 1945 claim that the diaries which Joseph Goebbels kept during the last two months of his life, and which have belatedly been made available by the East... August, 1978The World According to Andrew YoungANDREW YOUNG is unquestionably a prominent figure in American politics today, and one of growing international importance as well. Before his remarkably rapid rise -owing largely to the role... The Changing Myth of the JewLIONEL TRILLING (1905-1975) was University Professor at Columbia and the author of many works, among them The Liberal Imagination, Beyond Culture, Sincerity and Authenticity, and The Middle of the... The War Within the CIAIN 1975, under the directorship of William Colby, the CIA found itself in a state of unprecedented crisis. Its entire role had undergone a dramatic change: from being a secret investigative... Wittgenstein the PilgrimHAD he written nothing, had his influence not been enormous over four decades of philosophers, Ludwig Wittgenstein would still have been one of the extraordinary personalities of our... Impossible Appetites1 / April 21, 1969-June 14, 1969 MONDAY. We got back to her apartment after dark and I spotted the note Who Owns the Sea?A STANDARD psychological test asks the respondent whether he would prefer to ride a rocket to the moon Poland Without JewsTEN days in Poland are not enough to form definitive con- victions about the country. The physical grace Politics and Markets, by Charles E. LindblomFOR many years Charles E. Lind- blom, Sterling Professor of Eco- nomics and Political Science at Yale, Afterimages, by Arlene CroceTHERE is general awareness that special powers are involved in, and required for, the composing of a Terrorism, by Walter Laqueur; The Terrorism Reader, edited by Walter LaqueurWHEREAS the first half of our century was filled with the clamor of great armies locked in the battles The Apocalypse of Our Time and Other Writings, by Vasily RozanovA WESTERN reader should not be surprised if the name of Va- sily Rozanov evokes in his mind only the The Victim as Criminal and Artist, by H. Bruce FranklinThe Victim as Criminal and Art- 1ist is a diatribe against Ameri- can society couched in the form of Lost Tribes and Promised Lands, by Ronald SandersTHIS book, Ronald Sanders tells us, was first conceived in 1968 during the New York City teachers' strike, September, 1978Why Bakke Won't End Reverse Discrimination: 1THE long-awaited decision in the Bakke case was greeted by a variety of re- sponses, which fell into Why Bakke Won't End Reverse Discrimination: 2IF THE long opinion written by Justice Powell in the Bakke case were truly "the judgment of the Court," The Message of Proposition 13THE Jarvis-Gann Constitutional Amend- ment, limiting property taxes in Cal- ifornia, has touched off The Anxious American JewTHE problem of pre-Passover program- ming was handily solved for Jewish organizations this year by NBC's What the CIA Knows About RussiaIT IS mainly to certain American friends that I owe my interest in the CIA. Curiously enough, there Son of “Gen Ed&rdquoTHE recent decision of the Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences to re- place its General Education courses Africa for the Africans?IN the summer of 1976, just a few months after Cuban soldiers had won the Angolan civil war for a minority Family AffairsSOME cultural theorists believe, though it may be self-serving, that novelists, like swallows before The Way the World Works, by Jude WanniskiJUDE WANNISKI, until recently as- sociate editor of the editorial page of the Wall Street Journal, announces The Land That I Show You, by Stanley FeldsteinWRITING concerned with the history of the Jews in the United States is at an interesting and significant Samuel Beckett, by Deirdre BairIN a time when art has become synonymous with godliness, and the artist is an instant celebrity, Samuel Eleanor Marx, Volumes I and II, by Yvonne KappTHERE are many virtues in this comprehensive and scholarly biography of the most likable member of Karl A Pretty Good Club, by Martin WeilDURING most of the 19th century the United States had few pressing concerns outside its borders. Representing October, 1978Against the China CardIN THE four Soviet "military districts" bordering on China, and in the Soviet client-state of Outer Mongolia, The Psychology of AppeasementEVERY historical situation is unique, but now and then an event recalls the past with such force that The Quality of LifeA FEW years ago the gynecologist Boyd Cooper published Sex Without Tears, a book that was proposed as Character in the BibleHOW DOES the Bible manage to evoke such a sense of depth and complex- ity in its representation of character Falsifying JeffersonAs Louis Hartz brilliantly point- ed out in The Liberal Tra- dition in America (1955), polit- ical theorists Zionism, Racism, and Free SpeechAMID cheering and clenched fists from its far Left members and strong objections from others, the British National Union of Students (NUS) voted on April 6 to reinstate its... Writing About VietnamEVERY war finds its way into literature. From Homer to Pynchon, the exhilaration and horror of military combat have provided writers-whether they themselves have actually fought or... Illness as Metaphor, by Susan SontagARE we responsible for the illnesses from which we suffer? Do the most serious of our illnesses reveal moral and psychological truths about ourselves which we would rather keep hidden?... The Jewish Return Into History, by Emil L. FackenheimSOME TIME after the appearance S of its August 1966 symposium, "The Condition of Jewish Belief," COMMENTARY received, and published, an angry letter from a reader in Brooklyn. Why, he wanted... The Parties, by Henry FairlieLONG before Watergate, Richard Nixon, and Spiro Agnew, politics ranked low on opinion scales of admired professions in American life. It is easy enough to understand why this has been the... Dominus, by Natalie GittelsonIT WAS to be expected that the women's movement, in whose peak years-the 60's and early 70's -there was born a veritable industry in feminist books, would in time give rise to a literature of... The Revisionists Revised, by Diane RavitchTHE late 1960's and early 1970's produced an extraordinary outpouring of radical scholarship devoted to attacking not only American social and political institutions but also America's... Lying, by Sissela BokSISSELA BOK is opposed to lying, but in her highly selective and tendentious book on the subject she directs her attention primarily to lies told by those occupying positions of power and... November, 1978Behind Camp DavidTHE diplomacy of the Middle East conflict has once again taken the world by surprise. At a time when the hopes and expectations aroused by the Sadat peace initiative had reached a very low... The Attack on the ProfessionsPROFESSIONALISM, professionalization, and the professions are increasingly central to any grasp of modern societies, yet persistently elude proper understanding. On the one hand, the... Blacks, Jews, and New York PoliticsEARLY this past summer, two events occurred in New York that were sufficiently ominous to warrant the anxieties they produced in community leaders and city officials alike. On June 14, in the... Whatever Happened to the Russian Revolution?WHY are the Russians still so hard to get along with? Why, faced with the logic of detente and the challenge of human rights, must the Soviet authorities remain so stubborn and intractable,... The Good Neighbor Policy of Scott ZuckermanWE flew out to Albuquerque and found Scott's sister's Dodge Dart waiting in the airport lot. I never figured out how it came to be there, but the car wasn't too bad for a two-door with... A Tale of Two WastesWHEN fuels are burned to produce energy, the materials do not simply disappear-after all, matter can neither be created nor destroyed-but rather are converted into other forms, which... Remembering Harold RosenbergHE MOVED very slowly in the last couple of years, this towering figure who could have passed for Captain Ahab, rising and dipping with his cane in hand as he inched his way up Tenth Street... Wagner's Holy FamilyMusic THE families of musical geniuses do not usually amount to much. Even the happy exceptions-the composer sons of J. S. Bach, Robert Schumann's pianist wife Claraseem ultimately to... In Search of History, by Theodore H. WhiteTHEODORE H. WHITE is one of the most influential political writers of our time. His Making of the President series has taught a generation of journalists a mode of writing about politics, and a... Janus, by Arthur KoestlerARTHUR KOESTLER is now in his seventies, but his approach to received wisdom of all kinds remains that of the enfant terrible. His latest work, intended as a summation of the ideas he... A Coat of Many Colors, edited by Abraham D. LavenderIT IS an operating assumption of the "new pluralism" that there is greater heterogeneity in American life than was once believed by academic sociologists and social planners alike. A Coat of... Hidden Terrors, by A. J. LangguthTHE subtitle of this book, by a former New York Times bureau chief in Saigon, is "The MARK FALCOFF teaches Latin American history at the University of Oregon. Truth About U.S. Police... The Culture of Inequality, by Michael Lewis; The Pursuit of Equality in American History, by J. R. Pole"EQUALITY" has become one of 66 the great conjuring terms of our times, a concept which everyone invokes and which everyone declares to be central to our politics, but which is customarily... Primacy or World Order, by Stanley HoffmannSTANLEY HOFFMANN is widely admired as an original and often brilliant observer of contemporary Europe. His works on modern France rank with the finest in any language. Yet he has written... December, 1978Kennedyism AgainONE Of the favorite quadrennial pastimes of American journalists and political experts-namely, speculating about the presidential intention of Teddy Kennedy-seems already to have been... Passers-by: The Soviet Jew as IntellectualJanitors shovel away the snow In the quiet suburbs; Together with bearded peasants I walk, a passer-by. I glimpse women in headscarves, Crazy alley curs yelp, And rose-crimson samovars Glow... Foreign Aid for What?"Do not attempt to do us any more good. Your good has done us too much harm already." -SHEIK MUHAMMED ABDUH, an Egyptian in London, 1884 OREIGN AID* is perhaps the only item of Public expenditure... New York's Crisis-and Washington'sONLY a few months ago-on July 1, precisely-New York's city government was able to announce that it had almost $1 billion in the bank after having paid off the last of its seasonal borrowings... The Strange Unhappy Life of Max PerkinsIN 1927, the Communist "authority" on American literature, Joseph Freeman, attacked the novelists of the period for their failure to contribute to the coming destruction of capitalism.... Pluralism Ancient and ModernTHE punch line of the old Soviet joke goes, "If everything is so good why is everything so bad?" About pluralism we may ask, If it is so popular why is it so unpopular? For pluralism's critics,... Good-Bad and Bad-BadIN A short essay written for the English weekly Tribune in 1945, George Orwell resurrected a wonderfully useful oxymoron of Chesterton's-"good bad books." This mischievously perverse genre, in... A Distant Mirror, by Barbara W. TuchmanIN 1948 the American Historical Association conducted a poll to identify the six greatest American historians who were no longer living. The final list included only one scholar who had... James T. Farrell: The Revolutionary Socialist Years, by Alan M. WaldIF IT is a peculiarity of American academic historiography that it has given inordinate attention to insignificant left-wing political movements, it is perhaps less peculiar that the... In Search of Identity, by Anwar al-SadatANWAR SADAT has always been a gambler. It is a quality which made him an unsuccessful underground conspirator in the 1940's, but it appears to be a necessary characteristic for anyone... Political Control of the Economy, by Edward R. TufteA FUNDAMENTAL, and still unanswered, question about democracy is whether it is compatible over the long run with a stable and healthy economy. The competitive struggle for popular votes... Nietzsche, Henry James, and the Artistic Will, by Stephen DonadioTHIS distinguished thematic study might be called parallel portraits of Nietzsche and Henry James, rightly linked here by their common Emersonian heritage. The portrait of James is persuasive;... Toward the Final Solution: A History of European Racism, by George L. MosseWITH this, his latest book, George L. Mosse claims once again his place in modern historiography as the foremost explicator and demythologizer of ideas which have inflamed and energized... |
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