Who Cares About Executive Supremacy?
The scope of presidential power is the most urgent and the most ignored legal and political issue of our time
Moral Principle vs. Military Necessity
The first code of conduct during warfare, created by a Civil War–era Prussian immigrant, reflected ambiguities we struggle with to this day
Dreaming of a Democratic Russia
A year in Moscow promoting a post-Soviet political process
Life with the mavericks and oddballs at the Herald Tribune
Swearing an oath for freedom of expression
My days in the dark with Robert Altman and Woody Allen
A young woman wins a drawing and learns to give and to receive
As a beloved uncle makes his final journey in the wilderness, a new life begins
Findings: Meditations on the Literature of Spying
From the Spring 1965 issue of The Scholar
Findings: The Cradle of Modernism
From the Autumn 1990 issue of The Scholar
Findings: To the Rescue of Romanticism
From the Autumn 1990 issue of The Scholar
Tom Stoppard’s Russian intellectuals take a wrong turn with Hegel, just as Edmund Wilson once did with Marx
Tenor saxist ‘Chu’ Berry emerged from the pack at the end of his short life