Democracy and Distrust, by John Hart Ely by Franklin Hunt The Burger era of the Supreme Court is now ten years old. Throughout its life, legal scholars have complained that…
Democracy and Distrust, by John Hart Ely by Franklin Hunt The Burger era of the Supreme Court is now ten years old. Throughout its life, legal scholars have complained that…
Euro-Neutralism by Walter Z. Laqueur Self-Finlandization, the voluntary subordination of the European political order to the interests and wishes of the Soviet Union, has made…
Free to Choose, by Milton and Rose Friedman by Michael Novak Milton Friedman is the economist my intellectual mentors warned me against. The censors of the Left always spoke his name…
Freud’s Jewish Problem by David Aberbach Freud was suspiciously eager to lend support to far-fetched theories involving the murder of the father, or father-image. He believed,…
In Defense of Progress by Gertrude Himmelfarb The idea of Progress-Progress with a capital "P"-has been in disrepute for a long time now. And with good reason,…
Is American Literature an Equal-Opportunity Employer? by Joseph Epstein The Harvard Guide is organized, that is to say, rather like the curriculum of a university highly sensitive to public…
Screen Memories from Germany by Richard Grenier After some four decades in which Germany was almost totally absent from the world cinema as a seminal force-decades during…
Summoned to Jerusalem, by Joan Dash by Julius Weinberg Zionism has fallen on hard times of late. This is a curious and lamentable state of affairs for the most…
The Boer War, by Thomas Pakenham by Stephen Rosen The people who think about American foreign policy have recently emerged from their post-Vietnam hangovers, but it is not clear…
The Curious History of Waldemar Haffkine by Edythe Lutzker Had he lived to be a hundred and twenty, Waldemar Haffkine would have died this year. He was born in…
The Facts About Terrorism by Charles Horner If it is true that two sovereign governments were patrons of the man who murdered Mountbatten, why has this made…
The Gnostic Gospels, by Elaine Pagels by Hyam Maccoby Gnosticism, an esoteric movement in ancient religion, has achieved surprising topicality. It may even be regarded as the form of…
The Intellectuals on the Road to Class Power, by George Konrad and Ivan Szelenyi by Paul Hollander While the stifling of free expression and the curtailment of intellectual activity are reasonably well-known aspects of cultural life in…
The New Black Intellectuals by Murray Friedman Following the race riots of the mid-1960's, the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders (the famous Kerner Commission) declared that…
