… and respect for the rights of minorities. At each of these points the Parties of dictatorship differ from the parties … and national leadership is far from synonymous with complete control. Party discipline has party patronage as … violence converting itself into control so long as the soldiers remain with the government; and the American army is …
… Parched A Newcomer's Notes Every departure is a confession, an admission of longing, of desire, of unbridled want. It is also a testament to hope, an act of faith that there is … hardcore rationing, which, despite what people say, studies show they really aren’t doing. My husband is a patient, …
Essays
… exactly a year ago, I wrote an article for VQR about an unaccompanied minor—one who crossed the border without papers or … Frydman of San Francisco’s Center for Gender and Refugee Studies. “We congratulate EOIR on this important step but we … more migration north? Frankel, of the Young Center, points out that an estimated 90,000 children are projected …
… Berg Collection of the New York Public Library. Brooke, who died of blood poisoning in 1915 on his way to fight for the … Brooke-Strachey letters was elicited by Strachey’s having become Freud’s main translator into English; Freud had picked … was still trying to encourage Brooke’s writing talent; but also Strachey revealed something of his own sort of thinking …
Little God Take a look, little god, at the pecked and smattered sill above the street where thin drunkards wrap their chests in a vest of old headlines. The slate ledge tilts toward the fire escape’s homemade cross marking the death of our super who …
… president of the United States from 1929 to 1933, he was also the author of 15 books, including The Ordeal of Woodrow … a close friend of Czech foreign minister Jan Masaryk who died mysteriously in 1948), Ms. Davenport wrote her memoirs … Of the Knowledge of Good and Evil [$12. 00]. Hyperion has come out with a new edition of David Rosenberg’s A Poet’s …