Character in the Bible by Robert Alter HOW DOES the Bible manage to evoke such a sense of depth and complex- ity in its representation of character
Dominus, by Natalie Gittelson by Dorothy Rabinowitz IT WAS to be expected that the women's movement, in whose peak years-the 60's and early 70's -there was born…
Falsifying Jefferson by Kenneth S. Lynn As Louis Hartz brilliantly point- ed out in The Liberal Tra- dition in America (1955), polit- ical theorists
Illness as Metaphor, by Susan Sontag by Dan Jacobson ARE we responsible for the illnesses from which we suffer? Do the most serious of our illnesses reveal moral and…
Lying, by Sissela Bok by Commentary Bk SISSELA BOK is opposed to lying, but in her highly selective and tendentious book on the subject she directs her…
The Jewish Return Into History, by Emil L. Fackenheim by David Singer SOME TIME after the appearance S of its August 1966 symposium, "The Condition of Jewish Belief," COMMENTARY received, and published,…
The Parties, by Henry Fairlie by Jeane J. Kirkpatrick LONG before Watergate, Richard Nixon, and Spiro Agnew, politics ranked low on opinion scales of admired professions in American life.…
The Psychology of Appeasement by Walter Z. Laqueur EVERY historical situation is unique, but now and then an event recalls the past with such force that
The Quality of Life by John P. Sisk A FEW years ago the gynecologist Boyd Cooper published Sex Without Tears, a book that was proposed as
The Revisionists Revised, by Diane Ravitch by Marc F. Plattner THE late 1960's and early 1970's produced an extraordinary outpouring of radical scholarship devoted to attacking not only American social…
Writing About Vietnam by Pearl K. Bell EVERY war finds its way into literature. From Homer to Pynchon, the exhilaration and horror of military combat have provided…
Zionism, Racism, and Free Speech by Ann Hulbert AMID cheering and clenched fists from its far Left members and strong objections from others, the British National Union of…
