1940s
1949
Dec. 18 Dr. Abraham J. Klausner The Nature of Tyranny and the Quality of Religion Dec. 11 Pierre Van Paassen There Is Still Time Dec. 4 Robert St. John A New Nation is Born Nov. 27 Jerome Davis and Benjamin Gitlow Does Communism Threaten Our America Way of Life? Nov. 20 Vincent Sheean Beyond Bread Nov. 13 Wing-tsit Chan The Real Issue in China Nov. 6 Clarence A. Barnes and Arthur Garfield Hays What is Un-American Oct. 30 Dr. Murray Banks Making the Most of What You’ve Got Oct. 23 Prof. and Mrs. Harry A. Overstreet Understanding the Motives of Men Oct. 16 Max Lerner What I Saw in Europe and Israel Apr. 10 Dr. Miriam Van Waters The Women Offender in Massachusetts Apr. 3 Leo M. Cherne Authority in an Unbelieving World Mar. 27 Stephen S. Wise My Challenging Years: A Seventy-Fifth Birthday Anniversary Address Mar. 20 Dr. Oscar Junek Fads, Superstitions and Tabus Mar. 13 Dr. Reinhold Niebuhr The Responsibilities of America Power in the World Community Mar. 6 Bishop G. Bromley Oxnam Religious and Moral Forces in the Contemporary Crisis Feb. 27 David Seabury The Secret of Unhappiness Feb. 20 Dorcas Palmer and David Seabury Can Men and Women Understand Each Other? Feb. 13 Dr. Mordcai W. Johnson Democracy and Communism: The Decisive Role of Moral Energy Feb. 6 Freda Utley Why I Ceased to be a Communist Jan. 30 Maurice Hindus Russia’s Great Mistake Jan. 23 Dr. Abram Leon Sachar Education for Civilized Living Jan. 16 Joseph Dunner Palestine- An Adventure in Peace-Making Jan. 9 Kirtley F. Mather The Treat to Freedom in the United States Jan. 2 Robert Nathan A New New Deal?
1948
Dec. 26 Dr. Murray Banks How to Live With Yourself Dec. 19 Henry C. Wolfe The Enduring Crisis Dec. 12 John J. Wright Catholicism in American Tradition Dec. 5 Jason Mason Brown Seeing Things Nov. 28 Jerome Davis and Felix Wittmer Can We Get Along with Russia Nov. 21 Dr. James Bender How to Get Along With Others Nov. 14 Carey McWilliams Tyranny Has No Permanent Address’ Nov. 7 Kurt Singer Gravediggers of Democracy Oct. 31 Stuart Chase Boom or Bust? Can We Smooth Out the Business Cycle? Oct. 24 General John H. Hilldring The Through About the Potsdam Agreement Oct. 17 Max Lerner What Can a Liberal Do? Mar. 21 Leo Cherne Keys to Our Confusion Mar. 14 David Seabury Sense and Nonsense in Psychology Mar. 7 Norman Thomas and Kurt Singer Socialism vs. Liberalism Feb. 29 Bishop G. Bromley Oxnam Feb. 15 Dr. Stephen S. Wise Feb. 8 Maurice Hindus Feb. 1 Dr. Mordcai W. Johnson Jan. 25 Anna L. Strong A Year with the Chinese Communists Jan. 18 Henry C. Wolfe Germany- Where Russia Meets the West Jan. 11 Kirtley F. Mather As Others See Us- Report from Europe, 1947 Jan. 4 Prof. and Mrs. Harry A. Overstreet Our Next Civilizing Idea
1947
Dec. 28 Robert Nathan The Outlook for 1948 Dec. 21 Leland Stowe While Time Remains Dec. 14 Saul Padover Can Palestine Solve the Jewish Problem? Dec. 7 Oscar W. Junek Why do Human Beings Act the Way They Do? Nov. 30 Dr. George Lawton How do Keep Mentally Young Nov. 23 Lewis Browne What’s Wrong with Hollywood? Nov. 16 Quincy Howe The Soviet-American Futurem Nov. 9 Robert St. John What in the Truth About Yugoslavia? Nov. 2 Roger Baldwin Democracy vs. Communism in the Far East Oct. 26 Charles Luckman America Unlimited Oct. 19 Max Lerner Where is America heading May 15 Eleanore Roosevelt George Coleman’s 80th birthday banquet Mar. 30 Maurice Hindus No War With Russia Mar. 23 Wayne L. Morse Politics: In Theory and Practice Mar. 16 Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. Sizing up our Presidents Mar. 9 Ellis G. Arnall Whose Country is This, Anyway? Mar. 2 Helen Gahagan Douglas United Nations: The Hope of the Word Feb. 23 David Seabury How to Live While Neurotic Feb. 16 Captain Harry M. Sperber Better Watch German Feb. 9 Dr. Mordcai W. Johnson Binding up the Nation’s Wounds Feb. 2 Reverand George B. Ford Some Problems the Home Front Must Solve Jan. 26 Bishop G. Bromley Oxnam Must We Fight a Third World War? Jan. 19 Eugene O’Neill, Jr. What Is Wrong With American Education Jan. 12 Prof. and Mrs. Harry A. Overstreet Adjusting Ourselves to This New Age Jan. 5 Erika Mann The Challenge of Tomorrow
1946
Dec. 29 Rabbi Roland G. Gittelsohn What Jews Ask of Their Christian Neighbors Dec. 22 Robert Nathan The Economic Outlook for 1947 Dec. 15 Robert St. John Are We Supporting Fascists? Dec. 8 Langston Hughs Are We Solving Our Own Race Problems? Dec. 1 Carey McWilliams Racial Minorities in America Nov. 24 Lewis Browne What’s Happening to This Believing World? Nov. 17 Edgar Ansel Mowre Cards Not Seen on the Table Nov. 10 Albert E. Kahn and Leo M. Cherne Can There be Peace Between Liberalism and Communism? Nov. 3 Bernard J. Sheil Free Men in a Free World Oct. 27 Hallett Abend and William Mandel Is Russia a Force for Peace? Oct. 20 Max Lerner America and the Crisis of our Time: Plan or Perish Mar. 31 Dr. Louis Berg Why We Misbehave Like Human Beings Mar. 24 Helen Gahagan Douglas The World- the Corner Drug Store Mar. 17 Samuel Guy Inman Argentine Fascism Challenges Democracy Mar. 10 Wilhelm Solzbacher A Catholic Looks at his Protestant and Jewish Neighbors Mar. 3 Bishop G. Bromley Oxnam Is the Kingdom of God on Earth a Realizable Ideal? Feb. 24 Prof. and Mrs. Harry A. Overstreet What Prejudice Does to the Prejudiced Feb. 17 Leo Cherne A portfolio of Political Prophecies Feb. 10 Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. The Liberal Tradition in America Feb. 3 Maurice Hindus Russia Today and Tomorrow Jan. 27 I. F. Stone Europe’s Jews- Forgotten Men of Victory Jan. 20 Stephen S. Wise Palestine, England, Jews, Arabs Jan. 13 Thomas H. Eliot and Saul Wallen Industrial Peace or Industrial Warfare Jan. 6 Agnes Smedley The Struggle for Democracy in China
1945
Dec. 30 Robert Nathan The Economic Outlook for 1946 Dec. 23 Harry Wald Finishing the Fight Against Fascism Dec. 16 Herbert Gezork What’s Going On in Germany Dec. 9 John M. Maki The Reorientation of Japan: Whose Responsibility? Dec. 2 Stephen Osusky The Influence of Stalin’s Doctrine of Nationality on Small Slav Nations Nov. 25 Louis Fischer America, the Atomic Bomb, and Russia Nov. 18 Lewis Browne What Are the American Fascists? Nov. 11 Will Durant What Are the Lessons of History Nov. 4 H. R. Knickerbocker America’s Tomorrow Oct. 28 Stuart Chase Full Employment and the Pressure Groups Oct. 21 Cecil Brown The Road Ahead- Winning the Peace Oct. 14 Robert St. John Can We Avoid World War 3 Apr. 8 Maurice Hindus Russia- Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow Mar. 25 S. Ralph Harlow and Khalil Totah Is Zionism Fair to the Arabs? Mar. 18 Rayford W. Logan What the Negro Wants Mar. 11 Lillian Smith Today’s Children and Their Tomorrow Mar. 4 John Hayes Holmes Shall We Conscript America? Feb. 25 James Waterman Wise Freedom from Hate: How to Achieve It Feb. 18 Erika Mann A Pacifist at War: Is There a Contradiction? Feb. 11 Carey McWilliams A Practical Program for the Solution of America’s Race Problem Feb. 4 William Henry Chamberlin The Revolt Against Civilization Jan. 28 Ray Josephs Postwar Powder Keg- Argentina Jan. 21 Jerome Davis Why Russia Won Jan. 14 Herbert Gezork Are We Losing the War on the Racial Front? Jan. 7 Cecil Brown The Crises in the War and Peace
1944
Dec. 31 Prof. and Mrs. Harry A. Overstreet New Minds are in the Making Dec. 24 Paul Hagen How to Destroy Nazism Forever Dec. 17 Wing-Tsit Chan Is China One of the Big Four? Dec. 10 Jay Allen The Peace is Yours Dec. 3 Lewis Browne Can We Afford Nationalism Any Longer? Nov. 26 Andrew Michalopoulos The Great Democrats and the Smaller Nations Nov. 19 Marquis W. Childs Washington Undercover Nov. 12 Ernestine Freud What Makes the German People ‘Tick’? Nov. 5 Stephen S. Wise Why the President will be Chosen Again on Tuesday Oct. 29 John F. Cronin Melting Pot for Civil War? Oct. 22 Paul Manning Paul Manning Reporting Oct. 15 Louis Fischer The Fight for Peace Apr. 2 Olin Downes Music and the Changing Social Order Mar. 29 Henry Shapiro Latest Word From the Russian Front Mar. 19 Rabbi Stephen S. Wise and Rabbi Joshua Loth Liebman Mar. 12 Joseph Dunner Can We Re-Educate the Axis People? Mar. 5 John Haynes Holmes The Riddle of Russia Feb. 27 Clyde R. Miller Prejudice Is a Disease: It CAN be Cured Feb. 20 Harlow Shapley Contribution of Science to Internationalism Feb. 13 Dr. Mordcai W. Johnson The Negro and Out National Destiny Feb. 6 Hans Kohn 1944: A Turning Point in History Jan. 30 Prof. Carl J. Friedrich Palestine and Peace: Problems of Foreign Policy Jan. 23 Rollo Walter Brown A World We Can Create Jan. 16 Natalie Aszkenazy A Woman Diplomat in Russia Jan. 9 Emil Ludwig What Sort of Peace Shall We Write with Germany? Jan. 2 Max Lerner The Revolution of Our Time
1943
Dec. 26 Albert E. Wiggam Problems of the Middle Aged Dec. 19 Count Byron De Prorok Free France Fights on Africa Dec. 12 Haridas T. Muzumdar India and Palestine: The United Nations’ Dilemma Dec. 2 Ella Winter Our Children in Wartime Nov. 28 Louis Fischer What Are Russia’s War Aims? Nov. 21 Prof. Frederick L. Schuman New World Order of New World War? Nov. 14 Hallet Abend Will Japan Commit Hari-kari? Nov. 7 Wilhelm Solzbacher Occupied Europe Resists Oct. 31 Jay Allen Will Victory Mean Peace? Oct. 24 Max Lerner America, America! Oct. 17 Thomas Mann The Order of the Day Apr. 4 Stephen S. Wise The Tragedy of Conflicting Loyalties Mar. 28 Herbert Black Headlines, Frontlines, and Homeliness Mar. 21 Dr. Mordcai W. Johnson The American Negro and the Present Crisis Mar. 14 Maurice Hindus What I Saw in Russia Mar. 7 John Haynes Holmes There Can Be No Peace Unless….. Feb. 28 Lewis Browne What Can the Jews Do About It? Feb. 21 Charles Brooke Elliot, Anup Singh What Can Be Done About India?- British and Indian Points of View Feb. 14 Irving Stone Darrow: Great American Rebel Feb. 7 Wilhelm Solzbacher Christian, Jew, and Pagans in Hitler’s New Order Jan. 31 Harry A. Overstreet What Kind of War is This? Jan. 24 Sigrid Schultz Women Nazis are the Worst Jan. 17 Ely Cubertson A Blue Print for World Peace Jan. 10 Prof. Frederick L. Schuman The Strategy of Victory Jan. 3 Max Lerner Looking Towards 1944
1942
Dec. 20 Pierre Van Paassen Today’s War and Tomorrow’s Peace Dec. 13 Louis Adamic Tolerance is not Enough Dec. 6 Louis Fischer At Home with Gandhi Nov. 29 Helen Kirkpatrick Ireland and the War Nov. 22 Prof. Carl J. Friedrich The New Belief in the Common Man Nov. 15 Colonel Carlos P. Romulo The War in the Pacific Today Nov. 8 Ralph Bates Need We Fear Russia? Nov. 1 Max Lerner What the Young Men Want Oct. 25 Martin Agronsky As I Saw the Australian Front Oct. 18 Walter Duranty What Makes Russians Fight Mar. 29 Edward Tomlinson The Americas Unite Mar. 22 Joshua Loth Liebman How to Remain Normal in Abnormal Times Mar. 15 Lawrence Dennis and Frederick I. Schuman How Can We Win the Peace? Mar. 8 Fulton Oursler The Enemy Within Mar. 1 John Haynes Holmes Dangers That Beset Us Now Mar. 1 Hannah L. Goldberg Ford Hall Folks Business Meeting, review Pearl Buck’s “Dragon Seed” Feb. 22 Lewis Browne What Went Wrong With Our Civilization? Feb. 15 Carl R. Friedrich Not Wanted: A Ministry of Propaganda Feb. 8 Pierre Van Paassen The Conquest of the Twentieth Century Feb. 1 Harry A. Overstreet Getting Ready for Peace When It Comes Jan. 25 Rockwell Kent This Is My Own… Jan. 18 Herbert Agar America’s Responsibility Today Jan. 11 Elissa Landi The Theatre Today Jan. 4 Vincent Sheean The War in the Far East
1941
Dec. 28 John T. Whitaker Where the War Will Be Won Dec. 21 Jay Allen and Louis Fischer The Shape of Things to Come Dec. 14 Max Lerner and Norman Thomas Facing This Crisis Realistically Dec. 7 Prof. Frederick L. Schuman Who Shall Inherit the Earth? Nov. 30 Stuart Chase The End of an Epoch Nov. 23 Louis Bromfield What the Economic and Social Future Holds for Us Nov. 16 Erskine Caldwell What I Have Just Seen in Russia Nov. 9 Stephen S. Wise Where Are Prophet and Prophecy Safe? Nov. 2 H. R. Knickerbocker America’s Role in the World Crisis Oct. 25 Max Lerner A Fighting Faith for America Oct. 19 Douglas Miller, Jr. You Can’t Do Business with Hitler Apr. 13 William Shirier Apr. 6 John Haynes Holmes Apr. 1 Forum Players From the Dawn of Sword’ Mar. 30 Jay Allen We Can Win This War: Democracy in Not Done For Mar. 23 Reverand Francis X. Talbot Our Liberty and Liberties Mar. 16 Hubert Herring Latin America, Germany, and the United States Mar. 11 Hannah L. Goldberg Book Review-’Oliver Wiswell’ Mar. 9 Lewis Browne What Will Become of the Jews Mar. 2 Harry A. Overstreet If Free Minds are the Remain Free Mar. 2 Josephn Hanc Ford Hall Folks Business Meeting, Hitler’s Protection Feb. 23 Harry Wald After Hitler- What? Feb. 16 Dr. Chao-Ting Chi New Developments in China’s War of Resistance Feb. 9 Rabbi Joshua Loth Liebman Psychoanalyzing Anti-Semitism Feb. 2 Sir Norman Angell What Should the Pacifist Do? Jan. 26 Herbert Agar America’s Responsibility in the Present Crisis Jan. 19 Howard Pierce Davis Adventure in Diagnosis Jan. 12 Will Durant A Blue Print For Better America Jan. 5 John Erskine This Is a Good Time to Live
1940
Dec. 29 Madame Genevieve Tabouis How France Collapsed Dec. 22 Louis Fischer Winners and Losers in the War Dec. 15 Vincent Sheean As the Scene Changes Dec. 8 Max Lerner Ideas Are Weapons Dec. 1 Prof. Frederick L. Schuman The Diplomacy of Nemesis Nov. 24 Edmond Taylor The Fifth Column in America: How Can We Fight It? Nov. 17 Pierre Van Paassen Ideologies and the War Nov. 10 Stephen S. Wise Why Our Country, for the First Time, Elected a Third Term President Nov. 3 H. R. Knickerbocker At the Ringside of History Oct. 27 Maurice Hindus Russia and Germany Must Fight Oct. 20 Bertrand Russell and George E. Sokolsky Education for Democracy Apr. 21 Youth Forum What Shall Youth Do About the Older Generation? Apr. 14 Abba Hillel Silver The Freedom of Races and Minorities Apr. 10 Forum Players Three one-act plays Apr. 7 Dr. George W. Coleman My Trip to South America Apr. 7 John Haynes Holmes Did Russia Sell Us Out? Mar. 31 James Waterman Wise Mr. Smith, Meet Mr. Cohen… Mar. 24 Prof. Mortimer J. Adler The Questions Science Cannot Answer Mar. 17 Prof. Frederick L. Schuman America’s Stake in the War Mar. 10 Lewis Browne Where Will the World Go From Here? Mar. 3 Dr. Samuel M. Lindsay Merchants of Hatred- Coughlin, Pelley and Company Feb. 25 Cornelius Vanderbilt Christianity or Chaos Feb. 18 President Frank Kingdon Group Relations in a Democracy Feb. 11 Jay Allen Propaganda in the News and How to Spot It Feb. 4 Harry D. Gideonse They New Liberalism Jan. 28 Reverand Father E.F. Murphy, S.S.J. Catholicism and Democracy Jan. 21 Maurice Hindus Stalin and Hitler- Friends or Enemies? Jan. 14 Prof. Harry A. Overstreet Progress in the American Way Jan. 7 Louis K. Anspacher What Kind of a World is Being Born?
