Race and Slavery in the Middle East, by Bernard Lewis by David Pryce-Jones Several features combine to make Bernard Lewis an exceptionally distinguished historian of the Middle Eastern world. First of all, he…
America’s Purpose, edited by Owen Harries by Norman Podhoretz About two years ago, I was invited by Owen Harries, the editor of the National Interest, to contribute to a…
Bad Advice for the Democrats by Irwin M. Stelzer “New Blueprints for the Left,” sighs a contented Newsweek headline over a story about Robert Kuttner's The End of Laissez-Faire:…
CNN vs. Israel by Andrea N. Levin Television viewers with any awareness of the history of the Arab-Israeli conflict have become accustomed to seeing it misrepresented by…
George Eliot’s Rabbi by Edward Alexander In 1848 a twenty-nine-year-old English-woman named Mary Ann Evans, infuriated by the idea of “race fellowship” among Jews, which she…
How We Helped Saddam Survive by Laurie Mylroie In the aftermath of Desert Storm, one of the most brilliant military operations in U.S. history, Saddam Hussein, the figure…
New People in Old Neighborhoods, by Louis Winnick by Scott McConnell After the defeat of Edward I. Koch, New York no longer has a mayor who regularly asks the populace, “How'm…
PC & the Ellis Affair by Carol Iannone When word started getting around late last year that upper-echelon executives at Simon & Schuster and its parent company, Paramount…
Quotation & Misquotation by Our Readers To the Editor: In “The Right to Misquote” [April], Gertrude Himmelfarb struggles with an intellectual problem that other commentators on…
Race and Slavery in the Middle East, by Bernard Lewis by David Pryce-Jones Several features combine to make Bernard Lewis an exceptionally distinguished historian of the Middle Eastern world. First of all, he…
Sinologists by Our Readers To the Editor: As a China-watcher since World War II, I agree on the whole with the thrust of Charles…
The Threshold of This World by Kelly Cherry After my father had been dead for about nine months, he began to appear in the kitchen.
The True and Only Heaven, by Christopher Lasch by Mary Eberstadt When Christopher Lasch observes, as he did recently in the New York Times, that “the labels that are commonly used…
Who Won Nicaragua? by Elliott Abrams When on February 25, 1990, Violeta Chamorro was elected president of Nicaragua, it seemed that an end had finally come…
“Indian Love Call” by Our Readers To the Editor: Richard Grenier's article, “Indian Love Call” [March], rebuking Kevin Costner's highly stylized image of the Sioux is…
