From Beirut to Jerusalem, by Thomas L. Friedman by Daniel Pipes Like many other Americans interested in the Middle East, I became aware of Thomas L. Friedman during the long, difficult…
Britain: Under the Iron (High) Heel? by John O'Sullivan Is liberty in Britain--and especially freedom of speech and of the press--under threat from an authoritarian government and a domineering…
Charging Israel With Original Sin by Shabtai Teveth A trend has recently emerged in Israel and elsewhere to rewrite the history of the founding of the Jewish state.…
From Beirut to Jerusalem, by Thomas L. Friedman by Daniel Pipes Like many other Americans interested in the Middle East, I became aware of Thomas L. Friedman during the long, difficult…
Jewish Mysticism in Dispute by Robert Alter The daunting achievement of Gershom Scholem (1897-1982) poses a certain quandary for the evolution of subsequent scholarship. His studies of…
Rites of Spring, by Modris Eksteins; The Modern World, by Malcolm Bradbury by Jonathan Rosen This is a book about death and destruction," Modris Eksteins tells the reader in his preface to Rites of Spring:…
Sketches from a Life, by George F. Kennan by Commentary Bk Kennan-A Prophet Honored" was the headline over Mary McGrory's Washington Post column on George F. Kennan's testimony before the Senate…
Strictly Movie by Daniel Fuchs One day a while ago I was back in Beverly Hills, where I had lived for more than thirty years,…
The Campus: “An Island of Repression In a Sea of Freedom” by Chester E. Finn, Two weeks before the Supreme Court held that the First Amendment protects one's right to burn the flag, the regents…
The Enigma of Japanese Power, by Karel van Wolferen; More Like Us, by James Fallows; Yen!, by Daniel Burstein; Japanese Investme by George Russell The United States is obsessed with Japan, and with reason. No foreign power, not even West Germany, has delivered so…
The Long Road to Freedom, by Walter Laqueur by Arch Puddington In the Soviet Union, glasnost has affected practically everyone, and for some Russians at least, the impact has been to…