Songwriters by Our Readers To the Editor: In selecting the best American songwriter, William G. Hyland [“The Best Songwriter of Them All,” October 1990]…
Affirmative Action by Our Readers To the Editor: I enjoyed reading the article by Frederick R. Lynch, “Surviving Affirmative Action (More or Less)” [August 1990].…
An Address to the Class of 1994 by Donald Kagan Ladies and gentlemen of the Class of 1994, parents, and friends, greetings and welcome to Yale.
Enter the Peace Party by Norman Podhoretz At first it looked as though everything really had changed.
For Paul Applebaum, Sincerely by Jennifer Moses A week after I moved from Boston to New York, I got a phone call from a friend of my…
Fragile Glory, by Richard Bernstein by Roger Kaplan Richard Bernstein, formerly the Paris bureau chief of the New York Times, where he is now national cultural correspondent, attempts…
H. L. Mencken by Our Readers To the Editor: A letter from M. S. Abramsky in your October 1990 issue [Letters from Readers] contains a seriously…
Mandela’s Record by Our Readers To the Editor: In “Mandela in America” [October 1990] Joshua Muravchik raises important questions about the apparent discrepancy between Nelson…
Patrick J. Buchanan and the Jews by Joshua Muravchik One definition of anti-Semitism, Patrick J. Buchanan observed in his syndicated column this past September, is “an embedded hatred of…
Quayle So Far by David Brock It all began following the nomination of Dan Quayle as George Bush's running mate at the 1988 GOP convention.
Simon Wiesenthal by Our Readers To the Editor: Jacob Heilbrunn's review of Justice Not Vengeance by Simon Wiesenthal [Books in Review, October 1990] refers to…
Songwriters by Our Readers To the Editor: In selecting the best American songwriter, William G. Hyland [“The Best Songwriter of Them All,” October 1990]…
The $36 Billion Bargain, by A.F.K. Organski by Daniel Pipes Why does the U.S. government provide such generous support to Israel?
The Cause That Failed, by Guenter Lewy by Sam Tanenhaus The romance of Communism peaked in the 1930's, when there seemed legitimate reason to believe that democratic capitalism might not…
The History and Sociology of Genocide, by Frank Chalk and Kurt Jonassohn by Steven T. Katz In 1944, in an effort to explain what was happening to the Jews of occupied Europe, a Polish refugee by…
The Imperial Middle, by Benjamin DeMott by Commentary Bk Metaphors of empire have turned pale since the Persian Gulf became a scene of struggle over the real thing.
The Model Minority by Our Readers To the Editor: In addition to those other standout “model minorities” described by Louis Winnick [“America's ‘Model Minority,’” August 1990],…
The Question of Black Leadership by Arch Puddington The question of black leadership has been placed in sharp focus by a recent series of unsettling and sometimes ugly…
The Wave of the Past by Mark Falcoff One of the more interesting side-effects of the crisis of Communism in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union has been…
Two States-One Nation?, by Giinter Grass by Edward Norden His country's most famous writer, Günter Grass is nothing if not consistent.
