Affirmative Action

by Our Readers

o the Editor: In his reply in the July issue to my letter commenting on his article, “‘Affirmative Action’: A…

Blood, Class, and Nostalgia, by Christopher Hitchens

by George Russell

Christopher Hitchens, British-born, Oxford-educated, a columnist for the Nation and Washington editor of Harper's, a widely published book reviewer, and…

Darkness Visible, by William Styron

by Carol Iannone

When an individual suffers the horrors of Auschwitz, survives to write inspiringly about man's ability to endure in extreme circumstances,…

Harold Bloom’s

by Robert Alter

The well-known literary critic Harold Bloom will no doubt provoke, as he clearly intends, a storm of excitement, consternation, and…

Hebrew

by Our Readers

To the Editor: I agree with Ruth R. Wisse [“The Hebrew Imperative,” June] that Hebrew and English are necessary for…

How to Fight Iraq

by Eliot A. Cohen

As I write in early October, war may well lie before us in the Persian Gulf.

In Poland Again

by Maurice Friedberg

I had long hesitated to return for a visit to Poland, though it is the land of my birth and…

Japan and Free Trade

by Our Readers

Irwin M. Stelzer's “How to Save Free Trade—and Still Trade With Japan” [July] is . . . sensible, but I…

Living With Roe v. Wade

by Margaret Liu McConnell

There Is something decidedly unappealing to me about the pro-life activists seen on the evening news as they are dragged…

Our Country, by Michael Barone

by Austin Ranney

This book is mislabeled.

Race Fever

by Edward Alexander

American universities are aflame with race fever.

The Anti-Communists

by Our Readers

n Sam Tanenhaus's refresher course on anti-Communists [“What the Anti-Communists Knew,” July], he offers Friedrich A. Hayek's Road to Serfdom—a…

The Nuclear Bubble

by Joseph Adelson

In June 1989 the press carried accounts of a project which had encouraged adolescents to write to Congress about the…

The Talmud in English

by Our Readers

To the Editor: Edward Alexander's article, “A Talmud for Americans” [July], omitted mention of another remarkable publishing event related to…

Ukranians, Jews, Russians

by Our Readers

To the Editor: I have just read David G. Roskies's “‘There Go Our Little Jews’” [April] and the letters that…

Vienna and the Jews, 1867-1938, by Steven Beller; The Jews of Vienna in the Age of Franz Joseph, by Robert S. Wistrich

by Dana Mack

It was in turn-of-the-century Vienna, seed-plot of the modern intellect, that Sigmund Freud developed his psychoanalytic theories; that the philosopher…