German Jews by Our Readers To the Editor: I am grateful to Ron Chernow for writing The Warburgs, and to Jonathan D. Sarna for reviewing…
China Today by Our Readers To the Editor: Cultures are always evolving, and it may be difficult or even impossible to determine to what extent…
Disraeli, by Stanley Weintraub by Edward Alexander In August 1867 England took a famous “leap in the dark” by passing the Second Reform Bill, which enfranchised the…
Furtive Smokers—and What They Tell Us About America by Peter Berger There are scenes—sometimes dramatic, sometimes quite ordinary—which can disclose the inner essence of an entire society.
German Jews by Our Readers To the Editor: I am grateful to Ron Chernow for writing The Warburgs, and to Jonathan D. Sarna for reviewing…
Higher Superstition, by Paul R. Gross and Norman Levitt by Jeffrey Salmon Science has brought us penicillin, the polio vaccine, the green revolution in agriculture, men on the moon, and Tang. But…
Home Truths by Linda S. Lichter Whenever preachers, politicians, or sitcom stars prattle on about “family values,” I think of my great-grandmother's embroidered linens.
It’s Big Government, Stupid by David Frum Journalists who covered Patrick J. Buchanan's abortive 1992 presidential campaign heard some remarkably stinging invective from him about the crushing…
Land for No Peace by Douglas J. Feith The Israel-PLO accord was supposed to bring on the new dawn of peace that optimists contended could be Israel's for…
Next, edited by Eric Liu by Commentary Bk “Baby bust,” “Boomerang,” “New Lost Generation”—these are some of the more unflattering labels affixed to the 80 million Americans born…
No White Males Need Apply by Midge Decter Filling a vacancy on the Supreme Court is, of course, among the most consequential of presidential acts—not quite so grave,…
Parents & Children by Our Readers To the Editor: In “Are Parents Bad for Children?” [March], Dana Mack poses a question which is loaded with potential…
Recovering American Literature, by Peter Shaw by Evelyn Toynton One of the peculiar luxuries that literature has always afforded us is the chance to experience to the full the…
Saul Bellow, Our Contemporary by Hilton Kramer The authors whose books we read when they are new and we are young are bound to occupy a place…
Talbottism by Our Readers To the Editor: One can have thought the USSR an evil empire and Strobe Talbott naive concerning it and still…
The Clintons & Whitewater by Our Readers To the Editor: Lynn Chu's article [“What Did the Clintons Know & When Did They Know It?,” March] was a…
The Homeless by Our Readers To the Editor: Ronald Reagan's callousness toward the mentally ill is mainly responsible for the large numbers of them who…
The Tyranny of the Majority, by Lani Guinier by Linda Chavez President Clinton's decision last June to withdraw the nomination of Lani Guinier as head of the Justice Department's civil-rights division…
Why the Dietary Laws? by Leon R. Kass A core document of Western civilization, the Torah or Pentateuch has at its center a set of dietary regulations, presented…
“Schindler’s List” by Our Readers Having resided in Cracow in the immediate aftermath of the events depicted in Schindler's List (I was there during the…
“Talking to the Enemy” by Our Readers To the Editor: Thank you for publishing Avner Mandelman's story, “Talking to the Enemy” [February]. Besides being a superb “thriller,”…
