American Jews: Diehard Conservatives by Milton Himmelfarb In the United States the 1988 presidential voting showed what diehard conservatives--in their commitment to liberalism--American Jews are. Times have…
Apocalypse Again by Peter Shaw Predictions of the end of the world, as old as human history itself and lately a subject of scholarly inquiry,…
Behind Behind “Who is a Jew” A Letter from Jerusalem by Edward Norden The three permanent crises in Israel, the trio of open questions, are the Economic, the Cultural-Religious, and the Military-Geopolitical. Now,…
Can Poland Ever Be Free? by Alain Besançon To many observers it seems that over the last year or so Poland has been on the move again, if…
La Capital, by Jonathan Kandell by David Frum Only toward the very end of this huge work does Jonathan Kandell, who covered Latin America for the New York…
Members of the Tribe, by Ze’ev Chafets by Edward Alexander In December of last year my wife and I drove into Natchez, Mississippi. Seeing the dome of a large building…
Parting the Waters, by Taylor Branch by Joshua Muravchik The United States is probably the most successful political experiment of all time, but it is not utopia. The greatest…
The Brodkey Question by Carol Iannone Harold Brodkey has been touted as a literary genius on the basis of a perennially unfinished novel and a handful…
The Direction of Poetry, edited by Robert Richman by Robert Alter For much of our century, it has seemed that free verse, which became firmly established in English during the heyday…
The Only Hope for Latin America by Mark Falcoff In the so-called Third World, at least to judge by reports in the press, the characteristic motifs are internecine conflict,…
Why My Grandfather Leon Trotsky Must Be Turning in His Grave by Yulia Akselrod I lived in Moscow in the late 30's with my maternal grandparents. My paternal grandfather, Leon Trotsky (born Lev Bronstein),…
