The Exile: A Life of Ivy Litvinov, by John Carswell by Anita Susan Grossman Ivy Low Litvinov (1889-1977) has long deserved to be the subject of a book, as much for her life as…
Beirut & the Great Media Cover-Up by Ze'ev Chafets On April 23, 1981, hundreds of Syria's elite special forces gathered in designated meeting places near the northern city of…
Comparable Worth: The Feminist Road to Socialism by Michael Levin In December 1983, Federal Judge Jack Tanner accorded the fullest legal recognition it has so far received to the novel…
First Lady from Plains, by Rosalynn Carter by Diana West The Carter White House seems to have spawned more memoirs more quickly than any other, a phenomenon that may owe…
From Eton to Havana by Richard Grenier Has Great Britain sent us a film of social and political significance? So it would seem from the reaction of…
How to Understand Central America by Mark Falcoff It is now more than three years since Central America became the United States' most dramatic and divisive foreign-policy issue…
Late Night Thoughts on Listening to Mahler’s Ninth Symphony, by Lewis Thomas by Ronald Bailey As a rule, scientists who share the dominant predilections of the literary establishment are lionized regardless of their competence to…
Philosophy & the Disappearing Self by William Barrett The 19th is still a century we are struggling to extricate ourselves from. It has thus something of the ambiguity…
Reality and Rhetoric, by P.T. Bauer by Michael Novak Throughout the 1930's the intellectual sky was gray with books predicting the doom of capitalism; then, after World War II,…
The Democratic Muse, by Edward C. Banfield; Culture and Politics, by Ronald Berman; Excellence & Equity: The National Endowment by Chester E. Finn, The evening before starting this review, I was part of the audience for the Nashville Symphony's annual opera production, this…
The Exile: A Life of Ivy Litvinov, by John Carswell by Anita Susan Grossman Ivy Low Litvinov (1889-1977) has long deserved to be the subject of a book, as much for her life as…
The Transfer Agreement, by Edwin Black by Richard S. Levy Edwin Black here retells the story of the agreement worked out between Zionists and the Nazi government in 1933 by…
