How the Cold War Really Ended by Joshua Muravchik Up until 1990, the great divide of American politics for at least 25 years, and perhaps 45, was between hawks…
Bob Woodward Meets Bill Clinton by Tod Lindberg Is there a more celebrated journalist, or for that matter a more reviled one, than Bob Woodward, the Pulitzer prize-winning…
City on a Hill, by James Traub by Barry Gross In its glory years, 1920 to 1970, New York's City College (CCNY) provided free education to a student body composed…
Dictators & Art by Our Readers To the Editor: Richard Grenier [“The Fuehrer's Filmmaker,” Movies, August] raises a very interesting question: can artists loyal to cannibalistic…
Dictatorship of Virtue, by Richard Bernstein by Chester E. Finn, Sometimes—mercifully—the kids are hard to fool.
F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Third Act by Joseph Epstein . . . how I would hate the reputation of being clever at writing but stupid at everything else. —Montaigne
How the Cold War Really Ended by Joshua Muravchik Up until 1990, the great divide of American politics for at least 25 years, and perhaps 45, was between hawks…
Israel Against Itself by Hillel Halkin A few days after the recent death at the age of ninety-one of Professor Yeshayahu Leibowitz, biochemist, theologian, and indefatigable…
Matthew Arnold by Our Readers To the Editor: John Gross [Matthew Arnold and Us,” July] is right to object to Samuel Lipman's description of the…
Motherhood Deferred, by Anne Taylor Fleming by Rachel Abrams Anne Taylor Fleming is a free- lance writer who reports regularly about women and their “issues” for the New York…
Political Leadership by Our Readers To the Editor: Only the most devoted party member, Democrat or Republican, is likely to challenge Paul Johnson's observations [“A…
Politically-Correct Baseball by George Weigel Innocent of the game's history, sociology, or metaphysics, I learned my baseball in the late 1950's the old-fashioned way: sitting…
Pragmatism by Our Readers To the Editor: Daniel J. Silver is to be commended for recognizing that Richard Rorty is a dubious heir to…
The Curious Case of Kiryas Joel by Jeremy Rabkin Supreme Court rulings on issues of church and state are a tangle of conflicting impulses.
The Hubble Wars, by Eric J. Chaisson by Kenneth Silber In December 1993, American astronauts were sent to perform repairs on the orbiting Hubble Space Telescope and in so doing…
The Jewish Future I: Judaism & Liberalism by Our Readers Irving Kristol's article, “Why Religion Is Good for the Jews” [August], impressively takes on Jewish organizations for fighting the wrong…
The Jewish Future II: Israel & the Diaspora by Our Readers To the Editor: Robert S. Wistrich [“Do the Jews Have a Future?,” July] is concerned about the disappearance of the…
The State Department vs. America by Midge Decter As the diplomatic arm of the world's greatest power, the U.S. Department of State has many, and widely varied, responsibilities.
Welfare Feminism by Our Readers To the Editor: I would like to applaud Midge Decter [“Welfare Feminism,” July] for her recognition of the nihilism in…
What To Do About National Defense by Eliot A. Cohen Great struggles leave their marks on the institutions that wage them.
