The Warburgs, by Ron Chernow by Jonathan D. Sarna The history of the Warburg family begins modestly enough in the 16th century when one Simon von Cassel (d. 1566)…
A Nation in Denial, by Alice S. Baum and Donald W. Burnes by Susan Wiviott In January 1993, Doll Johnson, an eighty-year-old resident of the South Bronx, was bludgeoned to death by Christopher Battiste, a…
Against the New Pessimism by Francis Fukuyama The end of the cold war has brought about a remarkable consensus between former hawks and doves—at least those professionally…
Beautiful Losers, by Samuel Francis by Dan Himmelfarb Taxonomists of American conservatism typically divide their subject into four categories—Old Right, New Right, neoconservatives, and libertarians—and the tension among…
Chi An by Our Readers To the Editor: Chi An, the heroine of Steven W. Mosher's A Mother's Ordeal: One Woman's Fight Against China's One-Child…
Culture and Capitalism by Our Readers To the Editor: Joseph Epstein mars an otherwise perceptive article, “Culture and Capitalism” [November 1993], by an astonishingly poor understanding…
Holocaust Denial by Our Readers To the Editor: Edward Alexander's review of Deborah Lipstadt's Denying the Holocaust [Books in Review, November 1993] will be of…
How to Read Philip Roth by Hillel Halkin And what will COMMENTARY make of this confession? I can't imagine it's good for the Jews.
On a Palestinian State by Our Readers To the Editor: Instead of attempting a learned dissertation on and critique of David Bar-Illan's “Why a Palestinian State Is…
Physics vs. Metaphysics by Our Readers To the Editor: I would like to respond to Jeffrey Marsh's “Physics vs. Metaphysics” [November 1993].
Talking to the Enemy by Avner Mandelman Before the radio had even reported the news, Nitza called me from the kibbutz to say that there had been…
The Arabists, by Robert D. Kaplan by Martin Kramer Ten years ago, on January 18, 1984, two men entered the campus of the American University of Beirut, known by…
The Future of Democracy by Our Readers To the Editor: . . . Had Bruce D. Porter, in “Can American Democracy Survive?” [November 1993], looked longer at…
The Great Polish Experiment by George Weigel Contrary to some of the more exuberant expectations bubbling in the wake of the Revolution of 1989, history has been…
The Warburgs, by Ron Chernow by Jonathan D. Sarna The history of the Warburg family begins modestly enough in the 16th century when one Simon von Cassel (d. 1566)…
There’s No Such Thing as Free Speech, by Stanley Fish by Daniel J. Silver Stanley Fish, a professor at Duke University, is a famous Milton scholar who has also written a great deal on…
