Batter Up

by Our Readers

To the Editor: I applaud George Weigel [“Politically-Correct Baseball,” November 1994] for brilliantly skewering the political correctness that undermines Ken…

Black Kids and Basketball

by Mark Gerson

As the columnist George Will said of the literature of the airplane, the most striking thing about the literature of…

Charlie and Mark

by Our Readers

To the Editor: Joseph Epstein's recollections of the quiz-show scandal [“Redford's Van Doren & Mine,” December 1994] triggered a memory…

Countercultures

by Our Readers

To the Editor: “And what about our own orthodoxy, the secular, humanist, rationalist orthodoxy against which all the countercultures of…

Juries on Trial

by Richard A. Posner

In recent years, a series of highly publicized criminal trials in which obviously guilty defendants were acquitted by juries (or…

Land for Cash?

by Dore Gold

Twenty years ago, during his first term in office, Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin struck what was probably the greatest bargain…

More Precious than Peace, by Peter W. Rodman

by Steven R. David

The cold war may have been waged over Europe, but it was fought in the third world.

Naturalist, by Edward O. Wilson

by Jonathan Rosen

“Go to the ant, thou sluggard,” counsels the book of Proverbs, “consider her ways and be wise.”

On the Origins of War, by Donald Kagan

by Aaron L. Friedberg

Pity the poor statesman who turns for help to the world of ideas.

Race and Culture, by Thomas Sowell

by Josef Joffe

As long as mainstream publishers like Basic Books bring out works like Race and Culture, all is not lost—though one…

The Cold War

by Our Readers

To the Editor: While I agree with many of Joshua Muravchik's points [“How the Cold War Really Ended,” November 1994],…

The Holocaust in Historical Context, by Steven T. Katz

by Jerry Z. Muller

In recent years, partisan evocation of the Holocaust has begun to occlude its image in historical memory.

The Peace Process: I

by Our Readers

To the Editor: While there are reasons to support a “gloomy view” of the Arab-Israeli peace process, Norman Podhoretz [“The…

The Peace Process: II

by Our Readers

To the Editor: Hillel Halkin [“Israel Against Itself,” November 1994] should be applauded for his candid and trenchant analysis of…

Victim Art

by Terry Teachout

The critic Paul Elmer More once described John Dos Passos's novel Manhattan Transfer as “an explosion in a cesspool.”

Welfare

by Our Readers

To the Editor: In “What To Do About Welfare” [December 1994], Charles Murray alludes to one of the road blocks…

What To Do About Immigration

by Linda Chavez

Despite overwhelming opposition from the media, from leaders of the religious and civil-rights communities, from the education establishment, and even…

What To Do About the Children

by William J. Bennett

At the dawn of the 20th century there was every reason to believe that ours would be (in the title…

What To Do About the CIA

by Richard Pipes

For the second time since it came into being in 1947, the Central Intelligence Agency is fighting for its life.