Game Plan, by Zbigniew Brzezinski by Eliot A. Cohen This reviewer must confess to having some initial doubts about a book whose dust jacket sports endorsements from both Richard…
Dispensations: The Future of South Africa as South Africans See It, by Richard John Neuhaus by Samuel P. Huntington The subtitle of Richard John Neuhaus's important and fascinating book is "The Future of South Africa as South Africans See…
Game Plan, by Zbigniew Brzezinski by Eliot A. Cohen This reviewer must confess to having some initial doubts about a book whose dust jacket sports endorsements from both Richard…
God’s Choice, by Alan Peshkin by Terry Teachout Some good ideas never catch on. The American people, for example, have consistently failed to show serious interest in an…
Joining the Club: A History of Jews and Yale, by Dan A. Oren by Gideon Rose When an outraged Yale trustee complained that too many Jews had been admitted to the Yale class of 1933, the…
Marriage and Morals Among the Victorians, by Gertrude Himmelfarb by Myron Magnet There is nothing academic about Gertrude Himmelfarb's splendid collection of essays, Marriage and Morals Among the Victorians.
Sandinista Anti-Semitism and Its Apologists by Joshua Muravchik In May 1983, the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), an organization dealing with instances of anti-Semitism worldwide, issued a statement denouncing Sandinista…
Soviet Defectors, by Vladislav Krasnov by Juliana Geran Pilon Only a slave society produces defections, a word still burdened by a pejorative root signifying a failure, or lack, but…
The Demotion of Man by Peter Shaw A coherent and ordered picture of the world has gradually emerged in the 20th century. It is modeled on the…
The Manchester Connection by Chaim Raphael How does one understand the result of the influx of Sephardim into Israel, which split the population into what seemed…
Will Gorbachev Reform the Soviet Union? by Vladimir Bukovsky The current "crisis" of the Soviet system about which everybody has been talking must seem strange to an outside observer:…
Yuppies in Rhyme by Carol Iannone To have written the "perfect book for the 1980's" may sound like a dubious achievement, but in the case of…
A Case of Academic Freedom by Joseph Epstein Academic freedom, which earlier generations of professors had struggled to obtain, used to be about the right to hold any…