Dance in America by Our Readers To the Editor: Terry Teachout's article, “Who Killed Dance?” [July], is rife with misconceptions and exaggerations that I can neither…
Doing Justice by Our Readers To the Editor: How disappointing that an interesting dissertation on the biblical genesis of justice, “A Genealogy of Justice” by…
Dossier by Edward Jay Epstein by Daniel J. Silver During the 1970's and 80's there were frequent reports in the press on the activities of an American businessman with…
How the Gay-Rights Movement Won by Norman Podhoretz A few years ago I listened in amazement as a friend of mine, a prominent social critic, told a group…
I Heard It at the Movies by Terry Teachout Film composers, long treated as second-class figures by the musical establishment, have lately come into their own.
Jewish Liberalism Revisited by Charles S. Liebman It is a truism embraced by countless spokesmen for American Jews, and by no small number of observers: Jews are…
Max Weber by John Patrick Diggins by Wilfred M. McClay John Patrick Diggins is a congenital dissenter.
Rushdie’s Mafia by Our Readers To the Editor: In “Salman Rushdie Surrenders” [July], Hillel Hal-kin's reference to Cochin as “the traditional home of India's native…
Selected Poems of Shmuel HaNagid translated by Peter Cole by Raymond P. Scheindlin As the Jewish confidant, adviser, and henchman of the Muslim prince who headed a small but powerful state in 1lth-century…
The Beliefs of American Jews by Our Readers To the Editor: COMMENTARY deserves high praise for the symposium, “What Do American Jews Believe?” [August]
The Last Freedom by Joseph P. Viteritti The debate over the proper relationship between church and state, a debate as old as the Republic, has in our…
When Work Disappears by William Julius Wilson by Leslie Lenkowsky In 1978, William Julius Wilson, then a little-known sociologist at the University of Chicago, stirred an intellectual furor with The…
Why Solzhenitsyn Will Not Go Away by Joseph Epstein For the least fair, but most penetrating, analysis of Russian character, one can do no better than to consult Joseph…
