A Fateful Intellectual Friendship by Edward Rothstein “The Jewish mystic lives and acts in perpetual rebellion against a world with which he strives with all his zeal to be at peace.” -Gershom Scholem
A Boy’s Own Author by Joseph Epstein The first author who had a distinct existence for me when I was a boy was a man, still very…
A Light Unto the Nations? by Ruth R. Wisse Dear B, In the absence of a letter from you I am reading those of the "father of Zionist socialism,"…
Gershwin, by Edward Jablonski by William H. Youngren It is probably fair to say that George Gershwin (1898-1937) was the most famous American musical figure of his brief…
Inventing the Homosexual by Marjorie Rosenberg From antiquity until perhaps a century ago, choice was presumed to govern sexual behavior. But in the late 19th century,…
Man of the House, by Thomas P. O’Neill with William Novak by David Brock The early 1980's were a dismal time for Thomas P. "Tip" O'Neill. In the most memorable televised campaign spot of…
Remembering Vietnam by H.J. Kaplan In Saigon between 1965 and 1966, while I was serving as counselor to the American embassy, I lived for about…
Sacred Survival, by Jonathan Woocher by Jonathan D. Sarna The term civil religion, popularized by Robert Bellah in a seminal essay of 1967, commonly refers to the symbols, rituals,…
The Collected Essays and Criticism, by Clement Greenberg, edited by John O’Brian by Roger Kimball Clement Greenberg is widely regarded as the most important art critic of his generation. Perhaps best known for his early…
The Columbus Argument by David Stove There might be good arguments for being anti-conservative in particular circumstances. But are there any good arguments for being anti-conservative…
Toni Morrison’s Career by Carol Iannone The tension between protest and transcendence, between suffering and strength, between determinism and personal will, between collective and individual identity--inform…
Veil, by Bob Woodward by Michael Ledeen Despite the near-total lack of documentation for most of Bob Woodward's tales in this book about the CIA under the…
