Essays
… but he felt terribly sorry for me because I was going to die a virgin. This was already impossible, but in that … bad wiring in my brain was to blame, the same warped signals that throw off my balance and make my muscles tighten, … being forced under sedation, made to leave your body and come back to a version that hurts more but is supposedly …
… better world. The proposal, which is an extended and highly complicated argument for recapturing “a unitary core concept … Maclntyre regards as the greatest of the ethicists, it is also implicitly about our most pressing and urgent … other comparable fallacies and delusions have become “embodied in our culture,” with the consequence not merely that …
… enter into a discussion here as to whether the broadcasting company should do dramatizations of this type, nor do I wish … few years, nearly all of our organizations and many individuals have said something about the necessity for fighting … Congress, but this does not mean that either of these bodies is Communist controlled. It simply means that they …
Reporting
… to sub-Saharan Africa, massive swaths of land are quickly becoming too parched for human habitation, with nearly one … of Environmental Development for the state of Morelos, studies the tide of environmental disaster which has already … last year eked out five kilos, less than forty cobs. As he points out shriveled watermelon and beanstalks, Eduardo …
… Poetry. By Joseph Warren Beach. New York: The Macmillan Company. $5.00. The Decline and Pall of the Romantic Ideal. … exciting syntheses which appear in this book. For it deals, as the publishers truly state, with “one of the bravest … of faith to agnosticism or comparative unbelief, “from medieval Christian faith to the scientific positivism which …
… heroic death in the Prussian manner for Western man, died quietly in his bed in Munich, leaving behind him the … a myth-maker. But too much of the myth has already become reality. Prophecies, however subjectively grounded, … rest of their philosophic merchandise. Some of these ideas, also, were of practical political value. At this stage, …