Military Misfortunes, by Eliot A. Cohen and John Gooch by Williamson Murray This is a timely and an important book.
Affirmative Action by Our Readers To the Editor: Thomas Sowell's provocative article, “‘Affirmative Action’: A Worldwide Disaster” [December 1989], points to many weaknesses in the…
Bound to Lead, by Joseph S. Nye by Elliott Abrams Intellectual fads differ from commercial fads in that most often they come from the top down, not from the bottom…
Continental Divide, by S. M. Lipset by Stanley Rothman In Continental Divide Seymour Martin Lipset returns to a topic which has fascinated him since early in his long and…
Franz Werfel, by Peter Stephan Jungk by Commentary Bk Posterity has not been kind to Franz Werfel, born in 1890 and on his death in 1945 perhaps one of…
From Judaism to Jewishness by David Singer A debate has raged of late over the spiritual condition of American Jewry, and in particular over the forces that…
Gorbachev’s Russia by Our Readers To the Editor: It is easy to agree with Richard Pipes in “Gorbachev's Russia: Breakdown or Crackdown?” [March] that the…
How to Save Free Trade-and Still Trade With Japan by Irwin M. Stelzer It is almost half a century since the great and the good of the postwar Western world forged a new…
Marshall Wexler’s Brilliant Career by Joseph Epstein In 1963 I was twenty-eight years old, a newly-minted Ph.D. in political philosophy from the University of Chicago, and spending…
Military Misfortunes, by Eliot A. Cohen and John Gooch by Williamson Murray This is a timely and an important book.
On the Scarcity of Black Professors by Abigail M. Thernstrom Derrick A. Bell of the Harvard Law School has announced that he will be teaching classes next fall but refusing…
Private Prisons by Our Readers To the Editor: In his review of Charles Logan's book, Private Prisons: Cons and Pros [Books in Review, March], John…
T.S. Eliot by Our Readers To the Editor: In his review of Christopher Ricks's book, T.S. Eliot and Prejudice [Books in Review, March], Hilton Kramer…
The Founding of Israel by Our Readers To the Editor: Shabtai Teveth's reply to my letter [Letters from Readers, February] offers your readers another dose of distortions…
The University: An Owner’s Manual, by Henry Rosovsky by Thomas Short This a cozy book and is meant to be.
Trashing Wall Street by George Russell To a visitor from, say, Mars, it might come as a surprise to learn that the 1980's—a decade of stable…
Ukranians and Jews by Our Readers To the Editor: In “‘There Go Our Little Jews’” [April], David G. Roskies mentions the Ukrainian, nationalists who came to…
What the Anti-Communists Knew by Sam Tanenhaus What you now see as a change for the worse (“Stalinism”) is really a change for the better in knowledge…
