Spring 1988

Reviews and Comments: Eminent Lives

Alfred North Whitehead (1861-1947) by W.E. Schlaretzki
F. R. Leavis (1895-1978) and Q. D. Leavis (1906-1981) by G. Singh
Henry Adams (1838-1918) by James W. Tuttleton
James Gould Cozzens (1903-1978) by Francis X. Duggan
John Dos Passos (1896-1970) by Francis Russell
Lyndon Baines Johnson (1908-1973) by M. E. Bradford
Neville Chamberlain (1869-1940) by Stephen J. Sniegoski
Notes on Contributors by Editors
On Biographical Theory by Calhoun Winton
Pierre Duhem (1861-1916) by John C. Caiazza
Reinhold Niebuhr (1892-1971) by Vigen Guroian
Sir Gilbert Murray (1866-1957) by E. Christian Kopff
Sir Thomas More (1478-1535) by James Patrick
T. S. Eliot (1888-1965) by Gregory Wolfe
The Second Earl of Liverpool (1770-1828) by Andrew Shaughnessy
Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) by James E. Person, Jr.
Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) by Karen L. Levenback
Wallace Stevens (1879-1955) by Eugene Paul Nassar

Dune: The Perfect Deathwork

William Batchelder

How the thought of Philip Rieff illuminates a modern epic.
NATO’s Prophetic Critics

Tom Switzer

Expanding the alliance has led to a war many experts predicted.
Dictatorships and Right Standards

Daniel McCarthy

Liberalism can’t be the core of U.S. foreign policy.
Revolt Against the Masses

David Gordon

Samuel Moyn’s new book explores why liberalism has turned on itself.
Barbie’s Girls and Hannah’s Children

Marlo Slayback

The hit film and Catherine Pakaluk’s new book reveal deep truths about motherhood.