Reading Rat - through 1969

Articles, Essays, Reviews

1969

"A Bad Idea Whose Time Has Come", by Irving Kristol and Paul Weaver, The New York Times, November 23, 1969, at Save Our States

Herbert Marcuse or Milovan Djilas? The inescapable choice of the next decade, review by Irving Howe of An Essay on Liberation, by Herbert Marcuse, and The Unperfect Society, by Milovan Djilas, Harper's, July 1969

1968

Crew of Apollo 8 - A View from Lunar Orbit, 1968, photograph by Bill Anders, Eyewitness

1967

Table of Contents (with cover), The New York Review of Books

Scrooge McDuck and Money, Walt Disney Productions, released March 23, 1967

Woody Allen Looks at 1967, with guest Willam F. Buckley, Jr., Monday Night Variety, at YouTube (via Chronicles)

1965-66

The Hoi Polloi, Volume 3, Number 1, October 15, 1965, through Volume 3, Number 9, April 29, 1966, sophomore editors, freshman and sophomore staff, Marquette University High School, Milwaukee

1965

Has the American Dream been achieved at the expense of the American Negro? debate between James Baldwin and William F. Buckley, Jr., Cambridge Union, video at Aeon

On the Performing Arts: The Anatomy of Their Economic Problems, by W. J. Baumol and W. G. Bowen, The American Economic Review, Vol. 52, No. 1/2, pp. 495-502

The Negro Family: The Case For National Action, Office of Policy Planning and Research, United States Department of Labor ("The Moynihan Report"), Internet Archive

Winston Churchill Funeral, video by Framepool

1963

The Making of the President 1960 (1963), YouTube

Culture industry reconsidered, by Theodor W. Adorno (translated by Anson G. Rabinbach), Soundscapes

New Editions, The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, by Edward Gibbon, edited by J.B. Bury, review by Jason Epstein, The New York Review of Books, February 1, 1963

Non-Contractual Relations in Business: A Preliminary Study, by Stewart Macauley, American Sociological Review, February 1963

My Negro Problem—And Ours, by Norman Podhoretz, Commentary, February 1963

1962

Bolt from the Blue, by Mary McCarthy, review of Pale Fire, by Vladimir Nabokov, The New Republic, June 3, 1962

The Financial Impact of Automobile Accidents, by Clarence Morris and James C. N. Paul, University of Pennsylvania Law Review, May 1962

Ancient Wisdom: On the Promotion of the Study of Latin (Veterum Sapientia), Apostolic Constitution, by Pope John XXIII, February 22, 1962

1961

This Godless Communism, illustrated by Reed Crandall, Treasure Chest of Fun & Fact, Volume 17, Numbers 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12, 14, 16, 18, and 20 (1961-62), at The Authentic History Center

Take Hannah Arendt’s Final Exam for Her 1961 Course 'On Revolution'in Philosophy, Open Culture

Farewell Address, President Dwight D. Eisenhower, transcript, Our Documents

1960

Kennedy-Nixon Debate: A Landmark? by Kenneth Rexroth, The Nation, November 5, 1960

Fr. Edward Garesche Dies at Age of 83, The Catholic Advocate, Volume 9, Number 41, 6 October 1960

The Sharon Statement, Adopted in conference at Sharon, Connecticut, September 11, 1960

Etienne Gilson: Elements of Christian Philosophy, review by Germain Grisez, The Thomist, Vol. XXIII, No. 3

Masscult and Midcult, by Dwight Macdonald, Partisan Review

1959

Reflections on Little Rock, by Hannah Arendt, Dissent, Winter 1959

The Decline of Book Reviewing, by Elizabeth Hardwick, Harper's Magazine

A Study of Lunar Research Flights, by L. Reiffel, et al., Volume 1, Research Directorate, Air Force Special Weapons Center, Air Research and Development Command, Kirtland Air Force Base, New Mexioo, 19 June 1959

The Mike Wallace Interview: Ayn Rand, at Ayn Rand Institute

1958

The Relation Between Unemployment and the Rate of Change of Money Wage Rates in the United Kingdom, 1861-1957, by A. W. Phillips, Economica, Nov. 1958

This Could Be the Start of Something Big, sung by Steve Allen, "joined by Ann Sothern, Steve Lawrence, Eydie Gorme, Dinah Shore and a special mystery guest", The Steve Allen Show, February 9, 1958, at YouTube

1955

Parkinson’s Law, by C. Northcote Parkinson, The Economist

Dennis the Menace Giant #6 (Summer 1958), see Dennis The Menace In Hawaii, Kayfabe Commentary

1954

Tonight, starring Steve Allen, premiere on NBC, video at YouTube

1953

Duck Dodgers in the 24½th Century, directed by Charles M. Jones, released July 25, 1953, at Daily Motion

The Power of Congress to Limit the Jurisdiction of Federal Courts: An Exercise in Dialectic, by Henry M. Hart, Jr., Harvard Law Review Vol. 66, No. 8, pp. 1362-1402

Follow the money, review by Rebecca West of The Strange Case of Alger Hiss by William Jowitt, The Times Literary Supplement, May 15, 1953, edited for republication May 22, 2020

Molecular Structure of Nucleic Acids: A Structure for Deoxyribose Nucleic Acid, by J. D. Watson and F. H. C. Crick, Nature, April 25,1953

1952

The Book-of-the-Millennium Club, by Dwight Macdonald, review of Great Books of the Western World (1952), Robert Maynard Hutchins, Editor, Mortimer J. Adler, Associate Editor, The New Yorker, November 29, 1952, at The Literature & Culture of the American 1950s, by Al Filreis

The Moral Limits of medical Research and Treatment, by Pope Pius XII, address to the First International Congress on the Histopathology of the Nervous System, The Linacre Quarterly

1950

William Faulkner’s speech at the Nobel Banquet at the City Hall in Stockholm, The Nobel Prize in Literature 1949

United States Objectives and Programs for National Security (NSC 68): A Report to the President Pursuant to the President's Directive of January 31, 1950, National Security Council

A Declaration of Conscience, by Margaret Chase Smith, United States Senate

1948

A Mathematical Theory of Communication, by Claude Elwood Shannon, from The Mathematical Theory of Communication, University of Illinois Press, originally published in Bell System Technical Journal 27 (3): 379–423

Pearl Harbor in Retrospect: The former head of the Army's Military Intelligence Division reflects on how the U.S. underestimated Japanese military power, by Sherman Miles, The Atlantic, July 1948

Come Back to the Raft Ag'in, Huck Honey! by Leslie Fiedler, Partisan Review, June 1948

The Foreign Affairs Reader, by Hamilton Fish Armstrong, reviewed by Robert Gale Woolbert, Foreign Affairs, January 1948

1947

The Engineering of Consent, by Edward L. Bernays, Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, Volume 250, Issus 1, pp. 113-120

1945

General Education In A Free Society: Report of the Harvard Committee (1945)

1944

Speech to the Third Army, by General George S. Patton, 5 June 1944

Review by George Orwell of The Road to Serfdom by F.A. Hayek, and The Mirror of the Past by K. Zilliacus, The Observer, 9 April 1944, posted at Maude's Tavern

1943

Don't Be a Sucker, by U.S. War Department, released July 4, 1943, posted by at U.S. National Archive at YouTube;
shorter 1947 version.

1941

The Red Decade, by By William Henry Chamberlin, The Atlantic

German Nihilism, by Leo Stauss, lecture delivered February 26, 1941 at the New School for Social Research, New York, New York, Interpretation, Spring 1999, Vol. 26, No. 3 [Corrections in vol. 26 no.3 (Spring 1999) pp. 353-78 (via Leo Strauss and the Closed Society, by Matthew Rose, First Things)

1939

Avant-Garde and Kitsch, by Clement Greenberg, Partisan Review

1932

The Expanding Universe, by Arthur Eddington, MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive

1925

Report and Recomendations on a Comprehensive Transit Plan for the City and County of Los Angeles, by Kelker, De Leuw & Co.

1924

Sky Pinwheels Are Stellar Universes 6,000,000,000,000,000,000 Miles Away, Science News

1923

Notes on a Possible Generalisation of the Theories of Freud, by Jacques Riviere, The Criterion, Volume 1, Number 4, July 1923, p. 329

1921

The Fearless, by Mortimer J. Adler, Poetry, January 1921

1920

Niagara in Winter, by Edward F. Garesché, S.J., The Catholic World, vol. 110, January 1920, pp. 496-497, at Niagara Falls Poetry Project

1919

The Dullest Book of the Month: Dr. Thorstein Veblen Gets the Crown of Deadly Nightshade, review by Robert C[harles] Benchley of Veblen's The Theory of the Leisure Class, Vanity Fair

Professor Veblen, from Prejudices: First Series, 1919, pp. 59-83. An expansion of "Professor Veblen and the Cow", Smart Set, May 1919, pp. 138-44

1917

On Some Conditions of Progress in Philosophical Inquiry, by Arthur O. Lovejoy, The Philosophical Review, March 1917

1915

In Flanders Fields, by John McCrae

The Breakdown of Internationalism, Pt I and Pt II, by Irving Babbitt, The Nation, June 17 and 24, 1915, at UNZ

1911

House Member Introduces Resolution to Abolish the Senate, United States Senate [Rep. Victor Berger, Wisconsin 5th congressional district, H. J. Res. 79]

1907

Not by Bread Alone, by James Terry White, The Century Mazazine, August 1907, p. 519, at UNZ

1895

Hampton Roads Conference: A. H. Stevens's Private Secretary Writes about it; Incidents of the Private Meeting between Mr. Lincoln and the Confederates in February, 1865, The New York Times

1869

The North American Review, Vol. 109, No. 224, JSTOR

1312 B.C.

What is the first recorded date in human history? Mark Brandon Printup, Quora, "Hittite Emperor Mursili II was just about to go into battle when there was a total solar eclipse that modern astronomers can accurately, retroactively pin to June 24th, 1312 B.C [sic]"