Boiling Point, by Kevin Phillips by Suzanne Garment At the very beginning of his new book, Kevin Phillips reminds us of his outstanding record in predicting—and in creating—major…
Clinton’s Victory by Our Readers To the Editor: In commenting on Joshua Muravchik's “Why the Democrats Finally Won” [January], I would argue, risking the charge…
Cuba’s Fate by Our Readers To the Editor: I write to express my appreciation for Mark Falcoff's “Is Cuba Next?” [November 1992]. His observations are…
Grandfathers—A Memoir by Christopher Clausen It would be pleasant to think that my paternal grandfather was named Adam because he was the first surviving member…
Hiss: Guilty as Charged by Sam Tanenhaus The Alger Hiss case, as by now everyone must know, did not end with Hiss's conviction in 1950 on two…
Jewish Voters & the Democrats by Jay P. Lefkowitz Quadrennial observers of the Jewish vote might be surprised by the support American Jews gave to Bill Clinton in the…
On the Peace Process by Norman Podhoretz For many years—and especially during the period 1977-92, when Likud was in power—I took the position that American Jews had…
Palestinians, by Baruch Kimmerling and Joel S. Migdal by Daniel Pipes Recent Palestinian politics are the subject of inordinate journalistic and scholarly attention: the University of Pennsylvania library, for example, contains…
Passionate Attachments by Our Readers To the Editor: I read with interest Edward N. Luttwak's discussion of The Passionate Attachment, George Ball's latest attempt—in conjunction…
Police Brutality by Our Readers To the Editor: I am a former chief of police of Savannah, Georgia, and I hold a Ph.D. in social…
Preparing for the Twenty-First Century, by Paul Kennedy by Irwin M. Stelzer Take a bit of Thomas Malthus (Essay on Population), add a dash of Robert Reich (The Work of Nations), spice…
Tennis, Anyone? by Richard G. Stern If, like me until the 1992 tournament, you know Wimbledon only on television, you do not know it.
The Family-Values Debate by James Q. Wilson There are two views about the contemporary American family, one held by the public and the other by policy elites.…
The First Dissident, by William Safire by Edward N. Luttwak Himself a man of some wealth and influence, William Safire, the well-known columnist of the New York Times, has written…
The Library of America by Our Readers To the Editor: In Norman Podhoretz's generous tribute to the Library of America [“On Reading for Pleasure Again,” December 1992],…
Tribes, by Joel Kotkin by Commentary Bk Joel Kotkin, a journalist based in Los Angeles, has previously written on American relations with Asia and on the California…
