Where Was Teddy?
Editor’s Note: The following first appeared in the November 7, 1988 issue of National Review.
It is too early to break out the champagne, but have you noticed how many books ...
Teddy: They Gotcha
Editor’s Note: The following first appeared in the May 14, 1976 issue of National Review.
Robert Sherrill’s The Last Kennedy is certainly very useful, but it does not quite live up ...
Secession of the Intellectuals
The contemporary educated class has succeeded in imposing upon our public discourse a structure of ideas that is suffocating in its narrowness.
How to Get a College Education
It was in the fall term of 1988 that the truth burst in upon me like something had gone terribly wrong in higher education. It was like the anecdote in ...
Dartmouth Reviewed
EDITOR’S NOTE: This piece appeared in theJune 22, 1998, issue of National Review. (You can dig into NR’s archives anytime here).
James Oliver Freedman, now stepping down after 11 years as ...
Family Man
EDITOR’S NOTE: This review of Norman Podhoretz’s Ex-Friends appeared in the February 8, 1999, issue of National Review.
It is difficult to find the terms with which to describe all ...
Now, a Masterpiece
Gilead: A Novel, by Marilynne Robinson (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 256 pp., $23)
Prose worth rereading does not merely communicate: Lucidity with “elegant variations,” as they used to be called, is ...
Family Man
EDITOR’S NOTE: This review of Norman Podhoretz’s Ex-Friends appeared in the February 8, 1999, issue of National Review.
It is difficult to find the terms with which to describe all ...
Grand Return
EDITOR’S NOTE: This review of Norman Podhoretz’s The Bloody Crossroads: Where Literature and Politics Meet appeared in the July 4, 1986, issue of National Review.
Norman Podhoretz studied ...
The Greatest?
W. B. Yeats: A Life, II: The Arch-Poet, by R. F. Foster (Oxford, 798 pp., $45)
Is William Butler Yeats Number One? A young professor at Columbia, one of the best ...