A new two-part anthology about Vietnam chronicles the few positive legacies of a terrible war: the literary excellence and moral outrage of the writing it inspired.
It is no exaggeration to say that our times are Apocalyptic, in the sense that we seem to have come to a point at which all the hidden, mysterious dynamism of the “history of salvation” revealed in the Bible has flowered into final and decisive crisis.
Late developments in the Quemoy crisis leave the situation as dangerous and confused as ever. But there’s a good chance that the Administration will win its gamble in the Far East.
