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  1. Abundance for What? (1964)
    And Other Essays
    5 Reviews, 1 Readable
  2. The Academic Revolution (1968)
    6 Reviews
  3. Academic Transformation (1973)
    Seventeen Institutions Under Pressure
    1 Review
  4. [+]
    After Their Education (Review)
    They Went to College, by Ernest Havemann and Patricia Salter West
    1. They Went to College by Ernest Havemann and Patricia Salter West
    The New Republic, May 5, 1952, p. 19
  5. Articles
    The American Crisis
    Commentary, June 1960, pp. 461-472
  6. The American Scene in Commentary's Mirror
    Commentary, February 1953, pp. 172-179
  7. Education
    The Anti-Organisational Syndrome
    Encounter, September 1978, pp. 52-68
  8. Literature and the Arts
    [+]
    The Arts, the Sciences and Humanity (Review)
    The Nature of Culture, by A.L. Kroeber
    1. The Nature of Culture by A.L. Kroeber
    The New Republic, January 12, 1953, p. 18
  9. Autos in America
    Encounter, May 1957, pp. 26-36
  10. Books
    [+]
    The Basic Dramas of Life and Death (Review)
    Primitive Heritage, by Margaret Mead and Nicholas Calas
    1. Primitive Heritage by Margaret Mead and Nicholas Calas
    Commonweal, November 27, 1953, p. 201
  11. Berlin---A Special Report
    The Sense of Despair
    The New Republic, October 2, 1961, pp. 15-18
  12. The Changing American Campus
    Beyond the '60s
    The Wilson Quarterly, Autumn 1978, pp. 59-71
  13. Books: Gunpowder of the Mind
    The Atlantic Monthly, December 1957, pp. 123-132
  14. Bookworm & the Social Soil
    The Saturday Review, May 5, 1951, pp. 7-8
  15. C. P. Snow and "The Two Cultures"
    Encounter, August 1959, pp. 67-73
  16. The Catholics and Their Colleges (I)
    The Public Interest, Spring 1967, pp. 79-101
  17. The Catholics and Their Colleges (II)
    The Public Interest, Summer 1967, pp. 49-73
  18. The Cold War and the West
    The Partisan Review, Winter 1962, pp. 63-73
  19. Controversy
    The Cold War
    Commentary, October 1960, pp. 340-344
  20. Constraint and Variety in American Education (1957)
    5 Reviews, 3 Readable
  21. Containing Ourselves
    The New Republic, April 6, 1963, pp. 14-16
  22. Conversations in Japan (1967)
    Modernization, Politics, and Culture
    3 Reviews, 1 Readable
  23. [+]
    Culture in the Air (Review)
    Radio, Television, and Society, by Charles A. Siepmann
    1. Radio, Television, and Society by Charles A. Siepmann
    The Nation, October 21, 1950, pp. 366-367
  24. Dealing with the Russians over Berlin
    The American Scholar, Winter 1962, pp. 13-39
  25. An Ecology of Academic Reform
    Daedalus, Winter 1975, pp. 166-191
  26. Education and Politics at Harvard (1975)
    Two Essays Prepared for the Carnegie Commission on Higher Education
    4 Reviews
  27. Egocentrism
    Encounter, August 1980, pp. 19-27
  28. An Exchange with Brazilian Students
    The American Scholar, Spring 1968, pp. 275-291
  29. Faces in the Crowd (1952)
    Individual Studies in Character and Politics
    2 Reviews
  30. The Found Generation
    The American Scholar, Autumn 1956, pp. 421-436
  31. Freud, Religion and Science
    The American Scholar, Summer 1951, pp. 267-276
  32. [+]
    A Human Freud (Review)
    The Life and Work of Sigmund Freud, Vol. I, by Ernest Jones
    1. The Life and Work of Sigmund Freud, Vol. I by Ernest Jones
    The New Republic, August 10, 1953, p. 18
  33. Human Rights
    Conflicts Among Our Ideals
    Commonweal, November 11, 1977, pp. 711-715
  34. [+]
    In the Mind of Man (Review)
    The Anatomy of Human Destructiveness, by Erich Fromm
    1. The Anatomy of Human Destructiveness by Erich Fromm
    The New Republic, December 8, 1973, pp. 24-26
  35. Individualism Reconsidered, and Other Essays (1954)
    5 Reviews, 2 Readable
  36. The Intellectuals and the Discontented Classes
    The Partisan Review, Winter 1955, pp. 47-72
  37. The Intellectuals and the Discontented Classes
    The Partisan Review, Spring 1962, pp. 250-262
  38. Japanese Intellectuals---and Americans
    The American Scholar, Winter 1965, pp. 51-66
  39. Knowing good and evil
    Commonweal, February 2, 1979, pp. 46-47
  40. Books in Review
    [+]
    Land of Opportunities (Review)
    The Next America, by Lyman Bryson
    1. The Next America by Lyman Bryson
    Commentary, October 1952, pp. 387-389
  41. [+]
    Little Puddles (Review)
    The Human Group, by George C. Homans
    1. The Human Group by George C. Homans
    The New Republic, February 5, 1951, p. 19
  42. "The Lonely Crowd" 20 Years after
    Encounter, October 1969, pp. 36-42
  43. The Lonely Crowd (1950)
    A Study of the Changing American Character
    17 Reviews, 6 Readable
  44. Man and Machine in America
    Encounter, September 1954, pp. 32-37
  45. McCarthy and Kennedy
    The New Republic, April 13, 1968, pp. 21-23
  46. Medicine in Modern Society (1938)
    3 Reviews, 3 Readable
  47. [+]
    Men, Women, and Marriage (Review)
    Emotional Security, by Milton R. Sapirstein
    1. Emotional Security by Milton R. Sapirstein
    The Nation, August 13, 1949, p. 159
  48. The "Militant" Fight Against Anti-Semitism
    Commentary, January 1951, pp. 11-19
  49. [+]
    Neighbors in Utopia (Review)
    Men of Good Hope: A Story of American Progressives, by Daniel Aaron
    1. Men of Good Hope: A Story of American Progressives by Daniel Aaron
    The New Republic, April 30, 1951, p. 21
  50. [+]
    The Neurotic Child (Review)
    Love Is Not Enough, by Bruno Bettelheim
    1. Love Is Not Enough by Bruno Bettelheim
    The Nation, June 24, 1950, p. 628
  51. New Critics of the Court
    The New Republic, July 29, 1957, pp. 9-12
  52. Notes on Meritocracy
    Daedalus, Summer 1967, pp. 897-908
  53. Of Men and Women
    The Nation, October 15, 1949, pp. 376-377
  54. On Class in America
    The Public Interest, Winter 1968, pp. 65-85
  55. On Higher Education (1981)
    The Academic Enterprise in an Era of Rising Student Consumerism
    1 Review
  56. On Vietnam
    The Partisan Review, Fall 1965, pp. 649-650
  57. The overriding issue
    Commonweal, May 23, 1980, pp. 299-300
  58. Books in Review
    [+]
    The Path to Total Terror (Review)
    The Origins of Totalitarianism, by Hannah Arendt
    1. The Origins of Totalitarianism by Hannah Arendt
    Commentary, April 1951, pp. 392-397
  59. The Perpetual Dream (1978)
    Reform and Experiment in the American College
    3 Reviews
  60. Reappraisals
    The Relevance of Thorstein Veblen
    The American Scholar, Autumn 1960, pp. 543-551
  61. Books
    [+]
    Return to Hiroshima (Review)
    Death in Life: Survivors of Hiroshima, by Robert Jay Lifton
    1. Death in Life: Survivors of Hiroshima by Robert Jay Lifton
    Dissent, May 1968, pp. 265-268
  62. The Search for Alternative Models in Education
    The American Scholar, Summer 1969, pp. 377-388
  63. [+]
    The Second Sex (Review)
    Women in the Modern World, by Mirra Komarovsky
    1. Women in the Modern World by Mirra Komarovsky
    The New Republic, August 31, 1953, p. 20
  64. Notes & Topics
    Sociologese?
    Encounter, January 1966, p. 42
  65. Some Observations on Intellectual Freedom
    The American Scholar, Winter 1954, pp. 9-24
  66. The Story of Medicine in the Middle Ages (1935)
    1 Review
  67. Ten Years On
    The New Republic, July 1, 1978, pp. 13-17
  68. Books and the Arts
    [+]
    Their Tribes and Ours (Review)
    Freedom and Culture, by Dorothy D. Lee
    1. Freedom and Culture by Dorothy D. Lee
    The New Republic, February 22, 1960, p. 15
  69. Thorstein Veblen: A Critical Interpretation (1953)
    8 Reviews, 1 Readable
  70. Tocqueville as Ethnographer
    The American Scholar, Spring 1961, pp. 174-187
  71. Two Generations
    Daedalus, Spring 1964, pp. 711-735
  72. The U-2 Affair
    Aftermath and Afterthought
    Commonweal, June 8, 1962, pp. 273-275
  73. The Uncommitted Generation
    Encounter, November 1960, pp. 25-30
  74. Values in Context
    The American Scholar, Winter 1953, pp. 29-39
  75. Where Graduate Schools Fail
    The Atlantic Monthly, February 1968, pp. 49-55
  76. Where Is the College Generation Headed?
    The Atlantic Monthly, April 1961, pp. 39-44
  77. No Items Found