SOURCE: A review of It Seems to Me: 1925-1935, in Journalism Quarterly, Vol. XIII, No. 1, March, 1936, pp. 109-10.

In the following review, Casey favorably assesses the socially conscious essays of It Seems to Me.

Broun's liberal outlook pervades this collection of his column “pieces” [It Seems To Me], revealing the World-Telegram commentator preoccupied with social questions. He is quick to side with the under-dog when economic struggle breaks loose, as everybody knows. A long way has been traversed by the columnist since his virtuosity charmed the sports fans and there is an essential note of seriousness in his present-day work, but it has the defect of avoiding the hard and precise reasoning that might be expected of a theorist on social questions, or even of an observer of compelling events. Rarely is he guilty of clichés as a literary craftsman, but his economics is often bromidic. He...