A Call to Dubious Battle by Norman Podhoretz "The description by T. R. Marmor (p. 86) of the 'intemperate and intimidating atmosphere in which the discussion of social…
America’s Jews, by Marshall Sklare by Lucy S. Dawidowicz The United States, it has often been noted, was the first society in history to have been founded consciously as…
Banfield’s “Heresy” by T. R. Marmor Last fall, just before Thanksgiving, Professor Edward Banfield resigned from Harvard University. No official attention was drawn to Banfield's reasons…
Felled Oaks: Conversations with de Gaulle, by Andre Malraux by Edward Grossman Without any false modesty, Malraux remarks in the introduction to this short book that "we possess no dialogue between a…
From Spanish Court to Italian Ghetto, by Yosef Haim Yerushalmi by Robert Chazan Jewish history, rich in the unusual and the bizarre, has produced few phenomena stranger than the Marranos.
Keeping Up With the Corleones by William S. Pechter In one of my earliest appearances in COMMENTARY, I wrote in praise of Francis Ford Coppola's "The Rain People," a…
O Pioneers! Reflections on the Whole Earth People by Sonya Rudikoff It was a gossip and fashion columnist, Eugenia Sheppard, who remarked of 1970 that it was the year when clothes…
Passion and Politics, by Seymour Martin Lipset and Gerald M. Schaflander by Stanley Rothman The number of books and articles which have appeared on the "student" question during the past seven years is probably…
Portrait of a Soviet Zionist by Judd L. Teller In virtually every planeload of Soviet Jews that lands at Lydda airport these days there is at least a handful…
Problems and Projects, by Nelson Goodman by Roger Wertheimer Nelson Goodman refers to Hume as "the greatest of modern philosophers"--an assessment sufficiently peculiar to suggest a peculiar set of…
The Constitution and the War by Commentary Bk It is frightening when out of the privacy of the Oval Room or of Camp David a decision emerges to…
