The Fords, by Peter Collier and David Horowitz by Carter Cooper Chronicles of great 20th-century American families tend to fall into two divided camps: on the one side, foot-stomping denunciations of…
As I See Gorbachev by Natan Sharansky Three days before the Reagan-Gorbachev summit last December, I was invited to a briefing in which four Soviet officials in…
Do Spies Matter? by Eric M. Breindel It is often said that spies are largely irrelevant to the overall course of international politics. Epidemics of treason may…
Inventing Hebrew Prose by Robert Alter Most readers of fiction these days, in Israel and elsewhere, take for granted the viability of the Hebrew language as…
Korea at the Crossroads, Report of the Korea Study Group by Nicholas Eberstadt Late in the 19th century, Korea was known in the West as the "hermit kingdom." Remote, impoverished, and unwelcoming to…
Reagan’s Rush to Disarm by Patrick Glynn Whether to his most passionate traditional supporters or to his bitterest long-time critics, President Reagan's unreserved embrace of arms control…
The Fords, by Peter Collier and David Horowitz by Carter Cooper Chronicles of great 20th-century American families tend to fall into two divided camps: on the one side, foot-stomping denunciations of…
The New Welfare Debate by Lawrence M. Mead Welfare reform, one of the hardy perennials of American politics, has been revived in Washington. But the politics of welfare…
The Trial of Socrates, by I.F. Stone by Donald Kagan There is something charming in seeing someone begin the study of ancient languages and literature late in life after a…
Timebends, by Arthur Miller by James W. Tuttleton Arthur Miller's new autobiography, Timebends: A Life, is so chronologically scrambled an account of his family, friendships, marriages, and theatrical…
Why Johnny Is Ignorant by Terry Teachout Does the enormous popular success of books like Allan Bloom's The Closing of the American Mind and E.D. Hirsch, Jr.'s…