Greatness & Decline of Richard Wagner by Samuel Lipman Exactly one-half century ago Thomas Mann stepped to a podium at the University of Munich, and there delivered an address…
How Important Is the PLO? by Daniel Pipes I doubt that I was alone in being perplexed by the news from Lebanon last summer. Even knowing the record…
Jews and Money: The Myths and the Reality, by Gerald Krefetz by Lucy S. Dawidowicz In October 1974, a year after the Arabs had launched the Yom Kippur War, General George S. Brown, then chairman…
Living without Health by Kevin Barnhurst It started one morning in the spring of 1976. I was twenty-four, and with college and my ROTC active duty…
Milosz: Poetry and Politics by Robert Alter As a rule of thumb, displacement is probably hardest on poets, because of their intimate linguistic attachment to their native…
Slavery and Social Death, by Orlando Patterson by Robert A. Nisbet Slavery, this book demonstrates, far from being a "peculiar institution," comes very close to being, along with kinship and religion,…
The “Neutralism” of E. P. Thompson by Scott McConnell Over the past years E.P. Thompson, the British social historian, has become the most influential intellectual figure of the European…
The Arab-Israeli Wars, by Chaim Herzog by Eliot A. Cohen The son of a distinguished British rabbi (later Chief Rabbi of Palestine), Chaim Herzog served with the British army during…
The Destruction of a Continent, by Karl Borgin and Kathleen Corbett; Development without Aid, by Melvyn B. Krauss by John O'Sullivan Some years ago Sir Keith Joseph, the British Tory politician, was addressing a local constituency meeting when a man rose…
The Muslim Discovery of Europe, by Bernard Lewis by J.B. Kelly Bernard Lewis has probably done more to foster Western understanding of the Islamic world in our day than any other…
The State Against Blacks, by Walter E. Williams by Michael Novak Walter E. Williams is a professor of economics at George Mason University and a prolific writer on issues of economics…
