D’Amato & the Jewish Vote

by Our Readers

To the Editor: Having done my own analyses of Jewish voting in presidential elections since 1972, I found Jay P.…

Family Values

by Our Readers

In James Q. Wilson's otherwise lucid article, “The Family-Values Debate” [April], he states: When the people who deliver mocking attacks…

Furtwängler

by Our Readers

To the Editor: Samuel Lipman's fine article, “Furtwängler and the Nazis” [March], sensitive and balanced in its attempt to be…

Immigration

by Our Readers

To the Editor: In his otherwise illuminating article, “Immigrants and Family Values” [May], Francis Fukuyama totally misstates my position on…

Lament of a Clinton Supporter

by Joshua Muravchik

Just a year ago, in August 1992, I signed a statement (whose publication in the New York Times was paid…

Leaving Town Alive, by John Frohnmayer

by Commentary Bk

John Frohnmayer had two purposes in mind when he set out to write this book: he wanted to get even…

Midrash & Deconstruction

by Our Readers

To the Editor: Hillel Halkin's “The Rabbinic Imagination” [March], comparing rabbinic Midrash to modern deconstruction, while interesting and formally correct,…

New Looks at American Jewish History

by Robert M. Seltzer

In the minds of many historians, and of many Jews as well, American Jewish history is comprised mainly of the…

Piety and Power, by David Landau; Defenders of the Faith, by Samuel Heilman; Hasidic People, byJerome R. Mintz

by Allan Nadler

When Israel's first Prime Minister, David Ben-Gurion, decided to exempt his young country's few ultra-Orthodox yeshiva students from military service,…

Race Matters, by Cornel West

by Arch Puddington

Cornel West has been acclaimed as one of the most important commentators on race relations in America.

Shultz, Reagan, and the Revisionists

by George Weigel

The surprising election of a Democratic President in 1992, after a campaign that stressed the “stagnation, drift, and gridlock” of…

Tennis, Anyone?

by Our Readers

To the Editor: After reading Richard Stern's delightful essay, “Tennis, Anyone?” [April], . . . I wondered whether I was…

The Case Against Anita Hill

by Terry Eastland

On Friday, September 28, 1991, the Senate Judiciary Committee sent to the full Senate the nomination of Judge Clarence Thomas…

Toward Managed Peace, by Eugene V. Rostow

by Patrick Glynn

America is not rich in elder statesmen.

What the Sex Educators Teach

by Dana Mack

When I was in elementary school, a quarter of a century ago, sex education was a matter of one or…

Yes and No to the Holocaust Museums

by Edward Norden

Last year, in a round-table discussion on the MacNeil-Lehrer News Hour, the subject was U.S. troops to Somalia.