Books
Americans and Russians
Enemy in the Mouth
Personalism: A New School of Fiction
Two men are spending the night in a police station on Division Street, in the Polish quarter of Chicago. They aren’t sure why they have been arrested, but they work for Zero Schwiefka, who runs a gambling house, and they guess that he had tried to get out of paying his weekly tribute to Police Sergeant Kvorka. READ MORE >>
Ambiguities in Italian Literature
Hope in an Age of Anxiety
The sense of warmth and reassurance that flows from this occasion means all the more to me because I cannot forget that there are forces at large in our society today that do not inspire me with this same feeling—quite the contrary. These forces are too diffuse to be described by their association with the name of any one man or any one political concept. READ MORE >>
The Art of Prose
Unseemly Deductions
A review of The Riddle of Emily Dickinson, by Rebecca Patterson READ MORE >>
Socialized Advertising
PRESIDENT TRUMAN recently made a frontal attack on the current million-dollar advertising campaign of the private power interests. “You can hardly pick up a newspaper or a magazine these days,” the President said, “without seeing an expensive full-page advertisement denouncing the ‘Socialism’ of our public power program.” READ MORE >>
The Mind of Robert Oppenheimer
Review of The Open Mind by J. Robert Oppenheimer. READ MORE >>
Conservatism Revisited
A review of Conservatism Revisited by Peter Viereck. READ MORE >>
