Petropower and Soviet Expansion by Edward Jay Epstein The constant focus on the attitudes of individual Soviet leaders, measured by their public pronouncements, style, and degree of apparent…
Who Killed the CIA? by Edward Jay Epstein ADMIRAL Stansfield Turner commanded a destroyer, a guided-missile cruiser, a carrier task force, a fleet,
KGB Today, by John Barron by Edward Jay Epstein John Barron's KGB Today, which draws on a wealth of new data and is written with a conceptual clarity rarely…
Red Carpet, by Joseph Finder by Edward Jay Epstein The current fascination with the machinations of the KGB-which focuses on Soviet espionage, subversion, disinformation, and assassination-tends to distract from…
Disinformation: Or, Why the CIA Cannot Verify an Arms-Control Agreement by Edward Jay Epstein Even though its missile testing was being relentlessly monitored by America's electronic sentinels in space and on land, the Soviet…
Safire’s Washington, by William Safire by Edward Jay Epstein In 1973, William Safire left the White House staff, where he had been one of Richard Nixon's main speechwriters, and…
The War Within the CIA by Edward Jay Epstein IN 1975, under the directorship of William Colby, the CIA found itself in a state of unprecedented crisis. Its entire…
What Is a Liberal-Who Is a Conservative? A Symposium by Lionel Abel, Jervis Anderson, William Barrett, David T. Bazelon, Pearl K. Bell, Ronald Berman, Norman Birnbaum, Joseph W. Bishop, Midge Decter, Edward Jay Epstein, Charles Frankel, Carl Gershman, Nathan Glazer, Eric F. Goldman, Walter Goodman, Sidney Hook, H. Stuart Hughes, Alfred Kazin, Jeane Kirkpatrick, Robert Lekachman, Carey McWilliams, Martin Mayer, Michael Novak, William Phillips, Earl Raab, Diane Ravitch, Harold Rosenberg, Richard H. Rovere, Bayard Rustin, Thomas Sowell, Roger Starr, Ben J. Wattenberg, Paul H. Weaver, James Q. Wilson, Peter P. Witonski, C. Vann Woodward and Dennis H. Wrong Commentary recently asked a group of 64 intellectuals: Are you satisfied with the way terms like liberal and conservative, or…
A Ford, Not a Lincoln, by Richard Reeves by Edward Jay Epstein In writing about the Presidency, journalists tend with increasing frequency to confuse their physical proximity to the seat of power…
Did the Press Uncover Watergate? by Edward Jay Epstein A sustaining myth of journalism holds that every great government scandal is revealed through the work of enterprising reporters who…
Journalism and Truth by Edward Jay Epstein The problem of journalism in America proceeds from a simple but inescapable bind: journalists are rarely, if ever, in a…
How to Talk Back to Your Television Set, by Nicholas Johnson by Edward Jay Epstein Nicholas Johnson, the outspoken member of the Federal Communications Commission who always seems to come down on the side of…
