Answer to History, by Mohammad Reza Pahlavi; Paved with Good Intentions, by Barry Rubin by Martin Kramer If a man can be said to have answered history, the late and last Shah of Iran did so on…
Changing of the Guard, by David Broder by Arch Puddington There is an unintended irony in the title of David Broder's new book, since it is his thesis that political…
Does the City Opera Have a Role? by Samuel Lipman The New York City Opera, so the story goes, had its beginnings in a 1943 meeting in Mayor Fiorello La…
Harvard Encyclopedia of American Ethnic Groups, edited by Stephan Thernstrom, Ann Orlov, and Oscar Handlin by Thomas Sowel The idea of producing an encyclopedia covering the innumerable ethnic groups that make up the American people-as the blurb on…
Jewish People, Jewish Thought, by Robert M. Seltzer by Chaim Raphael In the days when the Jewish world was socially cohesive and bound in religious observance, no one had much need…
Judaism for the Mass Market by Ruth R. Wisse The almanac-an occasional compendium of useful facts and statistics, demographic and calendrical data, and brief essays usually of an informational…
Maimonides Then and Now by Hyam Maccoby Maimonides (1135-1204), known by the acronym Rambam (Rabbi Moses ben Maimon), is a figure the mere contemplation of whom is…
Prison or Paradise? The New Religious Cults, by A. James Rudin and Marcia R. Rudin by Terry Eastland In the mid-1970's, Rabbi A. James Rudin and Marcia R. Rudin, both students of religion and philosophy, received a number…
Race Relations at Harvard by Peter Skerry The continuing debate over affirmative-action admission policies in colleges and universities has generally focused either on the issue of equity…
The Communists & the Committees by Eric M. Breindel Just as some of those called to testify refused to discuss Communist party membership, or ties to the American Communist…
The New American Majority by Norman Podhoretz Despite the fact that the pollsters all said the election was too close to call, the Reagan landslide was predictable…
U.S. Security & Latin America by Jeane J. Kirkpatrick While American attention in the past year has been focused on other matters, developments of great potential importance in Central…
