Life and Death Questions by Our Readers To the Editor: In “Death With Dignity and the Sanctity of Life” [March], Leon R. Kass addresses the serious and…
Dream Song: The Life of John Berryman by Rick Richman The American poet John Berryman (1914-72) liked to excuse his excessive drinking and argumentative, sometimes violent nature by reminding himself…
Hutchins of Chicago by Our Readers To the Editor: Joseph Epstein's insightful article on the career of Robert Maynard Hutchins [“The Sad Story of the Boy…
Israel’s Dilemma, by Ezra Sohar by Irwin M. Stelzer Start with government owner-ship or effective control of the bulk of the manufacturing, agricultural, and financial sectors, themselves saturated with…
Life and Death Questions by Our Readers To the Editor: In “Death With Dignity and the Sanctity of Life” [March], Leon R. Kass addresses the serious and…
Middle East Options by Our Readers To the Editor: In “Can the Palestinians Make Peace?” [April], Daniel Pipes comes to the unavoidable conclusion that there can…
One, by One, by One: Facing the Holocaust, by Judith Miller by Edward Norden Judith Miller, an editor at the New York Times, here looks five countries where the Germans waged their war against…
Russia’s New Jews by Our Readers To the Editor: I read with interest your recent article, “‘There Go Our Little Jews’” by David G. Roskies [April].…
Small Victories, by Samuel G. Freedman by Jackson Toby Small Victories is an account of a year spent by a former New York Times reporter observing Seward Park High…
Surviving Affirmative Action (More or Less) by Frederick R. Lynch In the mid-1970's, I became increasingly interested in what I assumed were two sociologically compelling questions: (1) how did white…
The Anti-Cold War Brigade by Arch Puddington The virtual collapse of East European Communism and the apparently irreversible decay of Communism everywhere else would seem to offer…
The End of Nature, by Bill McKibben by Joel Schwartz The huge amount of media attention lavished upon this year's celebration of Earth Day was foreshadowed in the earlier enthusiastic…
Was Chambers Right? by Our Readers To the Editor: In his article, “Why Whittaker Chambers Was Wrong” [April], Charles Horner concludes that the apparent demise of…
Was Spinoza a Heretic? by Andre Albert Aciman Benedict De Spinoza (1632-77), the frail, frugal, reclusive lens-grinder, may have been the most passionately dispassionate thinker in the history…
