Philip Roth: Sonny Boy or Lenny Bruce? by Pearl K. Bell Not so long ago, no one questioned the fact that the work of Philip Roth, whether damned or praised for…
Agency of Fear, by Edward Jay Epstein by Seth Cropsey Many newspapermen are called "investigative reporters" these days, but their "investigations" generally consist in printing leaks handed to them by…
Big Story, by Peter Braestrup by Paul H. Weaver This study of how the national press covered the Tet offensive sprawls through two weighty volumes and contains 41 appendixes,…
Carter vs. Israel: What the Polls Reveal by Seymour Martin Lipset Even before the furor over the new Soviet-American declaration on the Middle East, there was considerable interest in the White…
Hitler’s Children, by Jillian Becker; Carlos: Portrait of a Terrorist, by Colin Smith by Eric M. Breindel Terrorism has become a fashionable subject during the past few years, but only a few authors have attempted to explain…
Philip Roth: Sonny Boy or Lenny Bruce? by Pearl K. Bell Not so long ago, no one questioned the fact that the work of Philip Roth, whether damned or praised for…
The Example of Isaac Babel by Simon Markish Isaac Babel fits perfectly into the landscape of Soviet literature of the 1920's. Thematically, his collection of short fiction, Red…
The Feminization of American Culture, by Ann Douglas by Steven Schnur It has become a commonplace of modern literary and historical criticism to speak of the dominant role women played in…
The Mahler Everyone Loves by Samuel Lipman Gustav Mahler, it would seem, is our most, successful 20th-century composer.
The Strange Case of George F. Kennan by Edward N. Luttwak George F. Kennan has sufficient claim to be taken seriously when American foreign policy is discussed: indeed, many consider him…
Wartime, by Milovan Djilas by Stephen Miller Wartime is a compelling story of civil war, of the internecine fighting among Yugoslavs of differing loyalties that began after…
Why Spinoza Was Excommunicated by Yirmiahu Yovel On July 27, 1656 a sentence of excommunication was pronounced on a twenty-four-year-old Jew of the Portuguese community of Amsterdam…
