Spain, the Jews, and Franco, by Haim Avni by Mark Falcoff In 1492, after centuries of coexistence with their Christian (and Muslim) neighbors, the Jews of Spain were ordered to embrace…
Fassbinder & the Bloomingdale’s Factor by Richard Grenier Mike Frankovich, the veteran Hollywood producer, used to say, "Everybody's got two businesses: his own, and the movie business." By…
John Foster Dulles, by Ronald W. Pruessen by Arnold Beichman This is the first of a projected two-volume intellectual biography of John Foster Dulles, Eisenhower's Secretary of State from 1953…
Lebanon: The Case for the War by Robert C. Tucker Each of the Arab-Israeli wars has been distinctive. Each has developed in ways that confounded the expectations of observers and…
Malamud in Decline by Joseph Epstein When do we give up on a novelist? Sometimes, if it be foul enough, a single sentence will do the…
Spain, the Jews, and Franco, by Haim Avni by Mark Falcoff In 1492, after centuries of coexistence with their Christian (and Muslim) neighbors, the Jews of Spain were ordered to embrace…
The Best Defense, by Alan M. Dershowitz by Joseph W. Bishop For years I vaguely disapproved of Alan Dershowitz, although I was hardly acquainted with him. He seemed to be always…
The Missiles of October: Twenty Years Later by Peter W. Rodman Like all great events, the Cuban missile crisis of October 1962 left a mark in the lessons its contemporaries drew…
The Real Anti-Semitism in America, by Nathan and Ruth Ann Perlmutter by Lucy S. Dawidowicz About two years ago, the level of anti-Semitic violence throughout the United States seemed suddenly on the rise. According to…
The Stalinist Follies by Eric M. Breindel In June 1949, Paul Robeson arrived in the Soviet Union on one of his periodic pilgrimages. According to a new…