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Publication: February 1978

General Note: Articles
Vietnam: New Light on the Question of American Guilt by Guenter Lewy
The World & President Carter by Walter Laqueur
The Zeppelin - A Memoir by Chaim Raphael

Story
Post-Mortem by Naomi Shepherd

Observations
Paul Goodman in Retrospect by Joseph Epstein
France's "New Philosophers" by Roger Kaplan

Letters
from Raoul Berger, Elliott Abrams, Oscar Gass, Martin Peretz, Albert L. Weeks, Walter C. Uhler, Edward N. Luttwak, Arnold Beichman, Eugene J. McCarthy, Elias M. Schwarzbart, Michael Ledeen, Paul Harris Forman, Samuel Lipman, William J. Bennett, Irving Louis Horowitz, Kevin V. Mulcahy, Daphne Merkin, and others

Books in Review
The Romance of American Communism by Vivian Gornick reviewed by Marion Magid
The Rise of American Philosphy by Bruce Kuklick reviewed by Jack Beatty
Farewell, Israel! by Ephraim Sevela reviewed by Joshua Rubenstein
Black Workers in White Unions by William B. Gould reviewed by Arch Puddington
The Economic War Against the Jews by Walter Henry Nelson and Terence Prittie reviewed by Jeffrey Marsh

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Citation: Commentary, 044Serial42991. No Date, William Colby Collection, Vietnam Center and Sam Johnson Vietnam Archive, Texas Tech University, https://www.vietnam.ttu.edu/virtualarchive/items.php?item=044Serial42991, Accessed 26 Jan 2026.

Pub Credit Line: 044Serial42991, William Colby Collection, Vietnam Center and Sam Johnson Vietnam Archive, Texas Tech University

Vietnam Center & Sam Johnson Vietnam Archive