Chaim Weizmann: A Biography, by Norman Rose by David Vital One of the small signs suggesting that Jews are at last beginning to be able to deal with the recent…
From This Moment On: America in 1940, by Jeffrey Hart by Peter Shaw As times change so do preferences for the past. In the 1960's and 1970's, the eras of choice were the…
How Eminent Physicists Have Lent Their Names to a Politicized Report on Strategic Defense by Angelo Codevilla The major media uncritically spread the message: the nation's senior physicists had risen above the partisan clamor over the Strategic…
Israel: A House Divided? by Ruth R. Wisse Since no one has yet found a way of persuading most Arabs of Israel's rightful and permanent presence in the…
Rabi: Scientist and Citizen, by John S. Rigden by Jeffrey Marsh I.I. Rabi is the grand old man of American science. Born in 1898, he is a survivor of a generation…
Reclaiming the Catholic Heritage by Anne Roche Muggeridge My generation of Catholic students was taught that Communism was the enemy of God and man. My children face a…
Salinger Then and Now by Terry Teachout Even though he has published nothing since 1965, the books of J.D. Salinger remain popular. The Catcher in the Rye…
The Black and the Red: Francois Mitterrand, The Story of an Ambition, by Catherine Nay by Roger Kaplan If Francois Mitterrand runs for a second seven-year term as President of France next year and wins, it will surprise…
The Complete Yes Minister: The Diaries of a Cabinet Minister, edited by Jonathan Lynn and Antony Jay by Nelson W. Polsby In a brilliant lecture about a decade ago, the late Sir Huw Wheldon, then presiding genius of BBC Television, contrasted…
The Imperial Congress by George Szamuely A revisionist version of American history is in the process of being written to account for and to justify the…
