For a New Concert of Europe by Mark Helprin Though the litany of wars is at present neither longer nor more ferocious than usual, for the first time in…
Abraham Lincoln by David Herbert Donald by Commentary Bk David Herbert Donald, a distinguished historian of the South and a two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize for biography, is…
Assimilation and Its Discontents by Barry Rubin by Jay M. Harris While other peoples and nations took only from the new and foreign flow what was good for their existence, thereby…
Colin Powell & the Conservatives by David Frum General Colin Powell ran his presidential campaign exactly as he would have liked to run the Gulf war: a massive…
Emotional Intelligence by Daniel Goleman by Joseph Adelson Daniel Goleman writes on behavioral science for the New York Times, reporting on research that has appeared in the psychological…
For a New Concert of Europe by Mark Helprin Though the litany of wars is at present neither longer nor more ferocious than usual, for the first time in…
How to Save American Jews by Jack Wertheimer Over the past ten years, the American Jewish community has undergone a radical inner shift in mood, from buoyant optimism…
Is Pat Robertson an Anti-Semite? by Our Readers To the Editor: Norman Podhoretz [“In the Matter of Pat Robertson,” August 1995] is to be commended for his honesty…
Israel & the Assassination: A Reckoning by Hillel Halkin As a voter for the Labor party and Yitzhak Rabin in the 1992 elections and a politically angry man for…
Race & Jazz by Our Readers To the Editor: Under the guise of shining light on an important issue, Terry Teachout [“The Color of Jazz,” September],…
Record Blues by Terry Teachout If a music lover of 1966 were to awake one morning and find himself transported, Rip Van Winkle-like, to the…
The Soul of Man Under Physics by David Berlinski What is it? A sense of unease, perhaps, some persistent feeling, as the century slips into the darkness, that the…
The Stories of Vladimir Nabokov edited by Dmitri Nabokov by Robert Alter Vladimir Nabokov wrote his first short story in 1921, when he was a twenty-two-yearold Russian émigré student at Cambridge University.
The Strange Death of the Soviet Empire by David Pryce-Jones by Arch Puddington The Soviet empire did die a “strange death.”
