- ‘Cultural Philistine’ Sidney Hook, reply by M.F. Burnyeat
- ‘Here was a Caesar!’ Jasper Griffin
- ‘Restoring American Independence’: An Exchange Anthony M. Solomon, reply by Felix G. Rohatyn
- ‘Vain Fortune’ Gabriel Austin, reply by Denis Donoghue
- Big Shots John Kenneth Galbraith
- Les Misérables in New York Murray Kempton
- Moscow Trials Victims Paul N. Siegel and Marilyn Vogt-Downey
- Neither Hope nor Glory Stanley Hoffmann
- Not So Grand Strategy Paul Kennedy
- Portrait of the Scientist as a Young Man M.F. Perutz
- Rahel’s ‘Jewish Sofa’ Gordon A. Craig
- The Caruso of Jazz E.J. Hobsbawm
- The Historian as Populist Michael Kazin
- The Michelson-Morley Experiment Philip Taylor, reply by Martin Gardner
- The Politics of Paradise Elaine H. Pagels
- The Woman Who Rode Away Alison Lurie
- Unfinished Business C. Vann Woodward
- Who Are the Sandinistas? Michael Massing