History: Remembered, Recovered, Invented, by Bernard Lewis by Edward N. Luttwak If the task of the poet is to interpret our souls to ourselves, and that of the national historian to…
Affirmative Discrimination, by Nathan Glazer by William Petersen This important book is one of the first full-length accounts of the reverse discrimination known as "affirmative action," and of…
Biblical Narrative by Robert Alter In a previous article in these pages, "A Literary Approach to the Bible," I wrote about the general paucity of…
Courts of Terror: Soviet Criminal Justice and Jewish Emigration, by Telford Taylor et al. by Joshua Rubenstein According to the 1960 Soviet criminal code, no person may be subjected to criminal responsibility and punishment unless he has…
Democracy and European Communism by SUSAN FIRESTONE Bringing the Communist parties of Italy and France into their respective governments is apparently one of those ideas "whose time…
History: Remembered, Recovered, Invented, by Bernard Lewis by Edward N. Luttwak If the task of the poet is to interpret our souls to ourselves, and that of the national historian to…
Obsessions by William S. Pechter I fidgeted my way through at least two-thirds of The Story of Adele H., waiting for it to get off…
On Human Conduct, by Michael Oakeshott by Commentary Bk On Human Conduct is the most important work in the philosophy of politics to have been published in a long…
Power Shift, by Kirkpatrick Sale by Jeane J. Kirkpatrick The notion that the various geographic regions of the United States are inhabited by people who share some distinctive interests…
Save Energy, Save a Soul by Eugene Bardach The only opponents of energy conservation seem to be the companies who are in the energy-supply business. Otherwise, there is…
The Litvak Connection & Hasidic Chic by Chaim Raphael A Litvak, in prosaic terms, is simply a Jew whose family happens to come from Lithuania; mythopoetically speaking, however, being…
Why New York Went Broke by James Luther Adams "The commonest mistake of Europeans who talk about America," said Lord Bryce in 1888, "is to assume that the political…
William Carlos Williams, by Reed Whittemore by John Romano The story of American literary modernism, as told until a few years ago, was doubly rare among intellectual histories: it…
