The fundamental problem of the nature of history could hardly be more clearly illustrated than by three recent biographies of Marc Antony, Cleopatra, and Augustus.
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...
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...
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...
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...
