Conservatism After Reagan by Gregory A. Fossedal The press awarded Ronald Reagan a huge "personal" victory with no "mandate," and perhaps fairly so; the boldest policy statements…
Delusions of Soviet Weakness by Edward N. Luttwak In recent years, entire books have appeared which argue that the Soviet armed forces are much weaker than they seem.…
Ilya Ehrenburg, by Anatol Goldberg by Lionel Kochan The career of the writer Ilya Ehrenburg is an inextricable part of the odyssey and travails of Russian Jewry in…
In Love and War, by James and Sybil Stockdale by Commentary Bk On the morning of Thursday, September 9, 1965, a squadron of 37 fighter-bombers took off from the USS Oriskany on…
Losing Ground: American Social Policy, 1950-1980, by Charles Murray by Commentary Bk Charles Murray's closely argued book is a bold and timely indictment of the past twenty years of American social policy.
Not in Our Genes, by Richard C. Lewontin, Steven Rose, and Leon J. Kamin by Bernard D. Davis For over a decade a group of scientists on the radical Left, Science for the People (SFP), has pursued a…
Reflections on a Memoir by Jacob Sloan H.'s english was hesitant, but he was fluent and expressive in Yiddish. There was more than a touch of delighted…
Staying on Top: The Business Case for a National Industrial Strategy, by Kevin P. Phillips by Melville J. Ulmer Kevin P. Phillips's reputation as a political seer began with the publication, when he was still in his twenties, of…
The Naked Public Square: Religion and Democracy in America, by Richard John Neuhaus by James A. Nuechterlein Most Americans were taken by suprise when the 1984 presidential election threatened for a time to degenerate into a war…
Vistas of Annihilation by Robert Alter The Jews brought with them to the arenas of destruction all their sundry internal divisions, their individual and collective defects,…
What Good Is Freedom of Speech? by Irving Younger Would we enact the First Amendment were it a proposal open to vote rather than a text to be applied?…
Why the Democrats Lost by Joshua Muravchik In 1984 the McGovernization of the Democratic party was completed. The movement was called the "new politics" by its original…
