PC in the Academy by Our Readers To the Editor: Carol Iannone [“PC With a Human Face,” June] says that in my book, Politics by Other Means,…
Bitter Carnival, by Michael Andre Bernstein by Gary Saul Morson Intellectuals often exhibit a fatal attraction for everything that intellectuality would seem to exclude.
Culture Shocks by Vladimir Matlin The people from the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society (HIAS, as everyone called it) and the interpreter Katie, known also as…
Hebrew in America by Our Readers To the Editor: Hazak ubarukh [strength and blessings] to Alan Mintz on his call to restore Hebrew literacy to its…
HIV and AIDS by Our Readers To the Editor: Michael Fumento's review of Robert S. Root-Bernstein's book, Rethinking AIDS: The Tragic Cost of Premature Consensus [Books…
If Bosnians Were Dolphins by Edward N. Luttwak If the Bosnian Muslims had been bottle-nosed dolphins, would the world have allowed Croats and Serbs to slaughter them by…
Islam & the West (including Manhattan) by Martin Kramer On a weekend in New York this past June, the Middle East Institute at Columbia University convened a conference with…
Much Ado About Branagh by Richard Ryan When in 1990 Kenneth Branagh's luminous film version of Shakespeare's Henry V appeared like a comet, it seemed an augury…
My Jewish Roots by David Klinghoffer I broached the subject the way it is always smart to broach delicate subjects with one's father: as if the…
PC in the Academy by Our Readers To the Editor: Carol Iannone [“PC With a Human Face,” June] says that in my book, Politics by Other Means,…
The Culture of Complaint, by Robert Hughes by Donald Lyons Robert Hughes, the art critic for Time, expands in this little best-selling book on three lectures he gave in 1992.
The Real World Order, by Max Singer and Aaron Wildavsky by Patrick Glynn Three years into the post-cold-war era we are still searching for our George F. Kennan—someone to delineate the main outlines…
The Subversive Family, by Ferdinand Mount by Joseph Adelson The Subversive Family was published in England ten years ago but has only recently made its appearance in this country;…
Wisse/Alter by Our Readers To the Editor: Like Edward Alexander [“The Nerve of Ruth Wisse,” May], I too was surprised by Robert Alter's attack…
Yeltsin’s Russia by Our Readers To the Editor: “Boris Yeltsin's Hollow Victory” by Vladimir Bukovsky [June] is so wildly off-base, so blatantly erroneous, so gravely…