Contents: Notes on contributors.- Introduction: The conscience of the critic, by M. Childs.- A child of the enlightenment, by C. Binger.- Walter Lippmann, the New republic, and the Russian Revolution, by G. F. Kennan.- W. L. and the world, by A. Nevins.- The early personal journalists, by A. Krock.- The columnists as teacher and historian, by R. Aron.- The logic of Allied unity, by I. McDonald.- Interpreter of East and West, by F. Moraes.- Apostle of excellence: the view from afar, by H. S. Ashmore.- The democratic elite and American foreign policy, by R. Niebuhr.- Walter Lippmann: the intellectual V. Politics, by A. M. Schlesinger, Jr.- Conclusion: The mockingbird and the taxicab, by J. Reston