In the year 1834, Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand-Perigord, ci-devant Abbe de Perigord and Eveque d’Autun, later Prince de Benevent, now only Prince de Talleyrand, eighty years old but of sound and disposing mind, long since divested of every...
We fight today the revolutionary onslaught of an industrial despotism which has its roots in the failure of the basically pre-industrial nineteenth century system to develop a functioning industrial society. To overcome the totalitarian...
To the twentieth century, annual collections of short stories are as familiar as “Keepsakes” or “Tokens” were to the nineteenth. At first sight of still another year-book of the American short story, Thomas H. Uzzell’s “Short Story Hits...
We were a group of friends lunching together in Cairo. The afternoon was one just following the publication of the introductory articles descriptive of the tomb recently discovered within the shadow of the great pyramids. All told, we were...
Alexander Meiklejohn, Robert Maynard Hutchins, Jacques Maritain, and Mark Van Doren have, in that order, testified as to the state of liberal education. Their testimony so consistently reports the bankruptcy of liberal education in our...
As I bend over the desk about my writing I am crouched before Aesred in something like an attitude of supplication: whensoever I look up from the typewriter keys, and over the top of my reading glasses so that I may quite clearly see my...
In Up Front, we have here not only the wonderful drawings with which Bill Mauldin made his fame but a singularly able commentary on how the drawings were conceived and on the war itself, on war itself. You will recognize many of the...
Haiti, as it turns out, isn’t particularly prone to earthquakes. Hurricanes and political turmoil, yes: it seems that every few years Haiti is buffeted with one or the other of those, and, either way, lots of people are killed. But...
