The Problem of Shostakovich by Terry Teachout Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-75) is now generally regarded as one of the great composers of our time, but his reputation, at…
Between Friends: The Correspondence of Hannah Arendt and Mary McCarthy, edited by Carol Brightman by Midge Decter The two women first met in 1944, when Mary McCarthy was married to the famous literary critic Edmund Wilson, her…
Church and State by Our Readers To the Editor: Jeremy Rabkin [“The Curious Case of Kiryas Joel,” November 1994] says quite a bit about Kiryas Joel,…
Clintonism Abroad by Joshua Muravchik In the weeks just before the November 1994 elections, public-opinion polls registered a slight rebound by the Democrats, although it…
Crime in America by Our Readers To the Editor: James Q. Wilson's “What To Do About Crime” [September 1994] is a thought-provoking article by one of…
Free Speech by Our Readers To the Editor: I subscribe to Justice Black's absolutist views of the First Amendment, and I am also an admirer…
If This Be Peace … by FRED KOMAROW In the euphoria following the Rabin-Arafat handshake on the White House lawn, opponents of the agreement negotiated in Oslo with…
Jewish Continuity by Our Readers To the Editor: The article by Jonathan D. Sarna [“The Secret of Jewish Continuity,” October 1994] is disturbing because it…
Masters of the Dream, by Alan L. Keyes by Arch Puddington A full quarter-century after the heyday of the civil-rights era, blacks remain the most reliably liberal voting bloc in American…
Moe by Joseph Epstein “Dinosaurs,” Lou Levin said, “let's face it, we're a pack of goddamn dinosaurs.”
Strange Justice, by Jane Mayer and Jill Abramson by Tod Lindberg The media blitz that accompanied the publication of Strange Justice: The Selling of Clarence Thomas, by Wall Street Journal reporters…
The Problem of Shostakovich by Terry Teachout Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-75) is now generally regarded as one of the great composers of our time, but his reputation, at…
The Sacred Chain, by Norman F. Cantor by Hillel Halkin If there is a case for scholars sticking to their specialties, this book makes it well.
The Schools by Our Readers To the Editor: While Chester E. Finn, Jr. [“What To Do About Education: The Schools,” October 1994] makes some valid…
The Universities by Our Readers Gertrude Himmelfarb [“What To Do About Education: The Universities,” October 1994] describes two “reformations” of higher education: its post-World War…
Vamps & Tramps, by Camille Paglia by Elizabeth Kristol Camille Paglia, the self-appointed enfant terrible of the academy, feminism, and the art world, is the author of Sexual Personae,…
Washington Meets the New by Charles Horner In the wake of the Republican landslide, the liberal doyens of the Washington establishment, never much for gallows humor, find…
What To Do About the First Amendment by Robert H. Bork The text of the First Amendment is quite simple: “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or…
