The Democrats' Dilemma by Lawrence M. Mead Since the late 1960's, a sea change has come over American politics.
Deborah, Golda, and Me, by Letty Cottin Pogrebin by Midge Decter Jewish women, observes Letty Cottin Pogrebin in her new book, Deborah, Golda, and Me, “often are asked to choose between…
European Unity by Our Readers To the Editor: Giuseppe Sacco's dream of “Saving Europe from Itself” [September 1991] shows a definite, if rather grudging, streak…
Freud’s Jewish Problem by Robert Alter Freud's Moses and Monotheism is surely one of the most curious last works of a major writer.
Gulag Story by Our Readers To the Editor: In his excellent review of David Evanier's black comedy, Red Love [Books in Review, September 1991], Arch…
How to Be Politically Correct by Daniel Seligman In The Sunshine Boys, which is about two retired comedians loosely modeled on Smith and Dale, Neil Simon has one…
On the Road to Isolationism? by George Weigel With the death of Communism and the waning of the cold war, a three-sided strategic and moral debate over the…
Rebekah by Our Readers To the Editor: In his unbridled admiration for the matriarch Rebekah [“A Woman for All Seasons,” September 1991], Leon R.…
The Best American Poetry 1990, edited by Jorie Graham; The Best American Poetry 1991, edited by Mark Strand by D.G. Myers Ever since Joseph Epstein, writing in COMMENTARY, pointed out the obvious—namely, that contemporary poetry is not precious to very many…
The Democrats’ Dilemma by Lawrence M. Mead Since the late 1960's, a sea change has come over American politics.
The Journals of John Cheever, edited by Robert Gottlieb by Morris Freedman A seasoned admirer of the fiction of John Cheever is likely to go through these journals, which he kept from…
The Pollster & the Nazis by Our Readers To the Editor: In his article, “The Pollster and the Nazis” [August 1991], Leo Bogart maintains that I was effectively…
The Samson Option, by Seymour M. Hersh by Steven Emerson Seymour Hersh has long been recognized as one of America's top investigative journalists.
The Senator They Love to Hate by Charles Horner From time to time, American political figures become convenient symbols of the evil against which all enlightened people are automatically…
The Two Cultures by Our Readers To the Editor: Reading the opening paragraphs of Michael Lind's article, “The Two Cultures (Continued)” [August 1991], caused me much…
Three Blind Mice, by Ken Auletta by George Russell What should we make of the decline of perhaps the most pervasive cultural and social—and therefore, in a real sense,…
Why Anita Hill Lost by Suzanne Garment We will simply have to accept, for the present, that no more than two people in the world can know…
