American Jews: Still a Distinctive Group by Charles S. Liebman "As does the Christian so does the Jew." This insight into the social behavior of modern Jews, which we owe…
History Into Art by John Romano "One January afternoon in the year 1941, a German soldier was out walking, enjoying an afternoon's liberty, when he found…
Loose Change, by Sara Davidson by Jane Larkin Crain Sara Davidson was graduated from the University of California in 1964, at about the time beatniks were becoming hippies and…
New York and/or Jerusalem by Robert Alter These are indeed troubled times for Israelis pondering their national future and for those Jews of the Diaspora who think…
Russia-Beyond Brezhnev by Walter Z. Laqueur Almost every new Russian ruler for the last two centuries has been hailed as a liberator upon acceding to power,…
Shattered Peace, by Daniel Yergin by Edward N. Luttwak Originally a Ph.D. thesis, the product of a solid course of study supervised or otherwise assisted by a large number…
Taking Rights Seriously, by Ronald Dworkin by Commentary Bk In recent years, appeals to rights on the part of individuals and groups have reached tidal proportions; Daniel Bell has…
The Dragons of Eden, by Carl Sagan by R. J. Herrnstein Among the ancients it was believed by some that the power of vision depended on invisible emanations issuing from our…
The Inequality of Nations, by Robert W. Tucker by Michael Ledeen This short and extremely well-reasoned book was written, as Robert W. Tucker announces at the outset, "out of protest against…
The Politics of Human Rights by Daniel P. Moynihan Human rights as an issue in foreign policy was by no means central to Jimmy Carter's campaign for the Presidency.…
The Totalitarian Temptation, by Jean-Francois Revel by Stephen Haseler Jean-Francois Revel is in the Orwell tradition-a European socialist implacably opposed to Communism-and The Totalitarian Temptation is, accordingly, an essay…
Wake Up, Wake Up, to Do the Work of the Creator, by William B. Helmreich by James H. Lehmann When Mimi Sheraton, the New York Times food critic, writes that there are 83 kosher restaurants in New York and…
