Science and the Unborn, by Clifford Grobstein by Richard J. Neuhaus It is widely assumed that, one way or another, Roe v. Wade, the 1973 Supreme Court decision legalizing abortion, will…
A Nation Still at Risk by Chester E. Finn, Six years ago, a blue-ribbon commission studying our education system declared us a "nation at risk." After significant reforms, it…
Drugs and Youth by Joseph Adelson Drugs and youth--each, taken separately, is the occasion of illusion, and taken together, they multiply our illusions.
German Historians at War by Jerry Z. Muller There has been a frequent ploy among Left and liberal West German intellectuals: use of the charge of apologizing for…
Law and Literature, By Richard A. Posner by Peter Shaw Intellectually speaking, the law-and-literature movement, which got under way in the 1980's, cannot be said to exist.
Our Road to Zion: A Memoir by David Vital We--my parents, my sister, and I--were in London in the 1920's. Why? And why, then, did we leave? A proper…
Paul Robeson, by Martin Bauml Duberman by Harvey Klehr For all of Paul Robeson's manifold achievements as an athlete, a singer, and an actor, it was his political activities,…
Science and the Unborn, by Clifford Grobstein by Richard J. Neuhaus It is widely assumed that, one way or another, Roe v. Wade, the 1973 Supreme Court decision legalizing abortion, will…
The Autobiography of a Seventeenth-Century Venetian Rabbi, translated and edited by Mark R. Cohen by Andre Albert Aciman In 1571, at the age of thirty-eight, Michel de Montaigne made what must have appeared to his French contemporaries a…
The Deal in Central America by Elliott Abrams Central America is our own local "jungle," and we have been enwrapped now for a decade in a seemingly endless,…
The Tower Precedent by Suzanne Garment As the battle over the nomination of John Tower to be Secretary of Defense raged across the television screens of…
Trading Places, by Clyde V. Prestowitz, Jr. by David Frum When Trading Places was published last fall, the environment for the success of its ominous message about the Japanese must…
