Thomas M. Levenson

Whither Liberal Arts?

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I F ANY ONE issue has occupied Harvard's soul searching in the last four years. it has been the perennial

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W ITH HIS BIOGRAPHY of the virtually unknown (to Americans at least) Liang Shu-ming, Associate History Professor Guy Alitto has

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I T IS NO ACCIDENT that the dominant cultural medium in the United States is television. To reinforce the box-like

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T HERE WAS SOMETHING FUNNY about this one from the start. It began innocently enough; somebody arranged an interview, and

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We are not fanatics. We deplore the genocide the Nazis visited on the Hebrew people. But there is no event

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T HIS COULD HAVE BEEN A GOOD BOOK. It's nicely printed on high-quality paper, and written lucidly enough to prove

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K EITH MOON is still dead. But then so is Jim Jones. Currier House's production of Tommy may prove to

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Death of a Rebel by Marc Eliot Anchor Press, 316 pages "The child was created to the slaughter house he's

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It all begins with a Saturday afternoon. Baseball season may have already lumbered over the horizon, but even the Red

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This piece is a remembrance of Joseph R. Levenson on the tenth anniversary of his death. Levenson, a specialist in