Nobody seriously questions the principle that it is the function of mass culture to maintain public morale, and certainly nobody in the mass audience….

The experience of the gangster as an experience of art is universal to Americans. There is almost nothing we understand better or react to more readi….

The New Yorker has always dealt with experience not by trying to understand it but by prescribing the attitude to be adopted toward it. This makes it….

In the deeper layers of the modern consciousnessevery attempt to succeed is an act of aggression, leaving one alone and guilty and defenseless among ….

Modern equalitarian societies whether democratic or authoritarian in their political forms, always base themselves on the claim that they are making ….

A man goes to the movies. The critic must be honest enough to admit that he is that man..