Burr, by Gore Vidal by Jane Larkin Crain Gore Vidal once described himself as a "border lord" in the "dying kingdom of literature." While the kingdom may in…
England in Crisis by Rudolf Klein These are exceptionally gloomy and exceptionally perplexing days in Britain. Indeed, the gloom and the perplexity are linked.
Israel After the War: 1 Peace With Egypt? by Walter Z. Laqueur Any discussion of the current prospects for peace between Israel and the Arab countries has to begin by rehearsing the…
Israel After the War: 2 Back to Abnormal by Hanoch Bartov Yom Kippur in Israel will never be the same again, at least not for my generation, whose sense of the…
Israel After the War: 3 The Need for Political Change by David Vital David Ben-Gurion was dying before the fighting had stopped, and there were few in Israel-at any rate among the older…
Literary Terrorism by Renee Winegarten "After the national toasts had been given, the first official toast of the day was the Old Man of the…
Paradise Lost, by Emma Rothschild by Elliott Abrams For almost as long as anyone can remember, the automobile industry has been the primary symbol of American economic power…
Spinoza and the Colonel by Milton Himmelfarb A few summers ago a Jewish scholar was in Germany, doing research in the family papers of a former colonel…
The Devil and John Foster Dulles, by Townsend Hoopes by Edward N. Luttwak The full-length biography is a serviceable if somewhat elaborate tool of political exposition, and Mr. Hoopes is candid in revealing…
The Emerging Nations and the American Revolution; Seven Who Shaped Our Destiny, by Richard B. Morris by Herman Belz We have become so accustomed in recent years to discounting American political leaders' professions of concern for the rights of…
The Mask Jews Wear, by Eugene B. Borowitz by David Singer Every so often some development on the American-Jewish scene is hailed as yet another indication that American Jewry has come…
The Myth of Malcolm Lowry by George Woodcock Oscar Wilde once suggested that it was second-rate artists who were most interesting as personalities; in the case of greater…
The Seduction of the Spirit, by Harvey Cox by Alan L. Mintz Har Cox's first book, The Secular City, sold a half-million copies and was the most widely discussed book on religion…
The Specter of Eugenics by Charles Frankel One of the often noted anomalies of our society is its capacity to develop extraordinary new technologies while failing to…
