Essays
Campaign Reports
A report from the Democratic and Republican conventions
Modern Times
A review of Him with His Foot in His Mouth and Other Stories, by Saul Bellow
The Legacy of Leo Strauss
A review of Studies in Platonic Political Philosophy, by Leo Strauss
First Monday in October
A review of United States Reports, 1983-84, by Warren E. Burger et al.
Nihilist Desperation
A review of Nietzsche (Vol 4: Nihilism), by Martin Heidegger, translated by Frank A. Capuzzi and edited with notes and an analysis by David F. Krell
Counterrevolution
A review of The Supply-Side Revolution, by Paul Craig Roberts
Rousseau’s Designs
A review of Rousseau's Social Contract: The Design of the Argument, by Hilail Gildin
European Characters
A review of The Europeans, by Luigi Barzini
The Poverty of “Poverty”
A Review of The Idea of Poverty: England in the Industrial Age, by Gertrude Himmelfarb
On Understanding Mozart
A review of Rhythmic Gesture in Mozart: Le Nozze di Figaro and Don Giovanni, by Wye Jamison Allanbrook
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Letters to the Editor
Reductio Ad Absurdum
Books at a Glance
Drucker, The Temptation to do Good; Didion, Democracy; Pines, A World Without a U.N.: What Would Happen if the United Nations Shut Down; Smith, Ways of Wisdom: Readings on the Good Life; Moynihan, Loyalties