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    1. In Bush v. Obama, Bush Wins in a Rout
      Peter Wehner
    2. The Re-Hollowing of the Military
      Arthur Herman
      September 2010
    3. The Conversion of David Mamet
      Terry Teachout
      July/August 2010
    4. Is the War Over?
      Michael J. Totten
    5. Hiroshima, Obama, and Truman
      Jonathan S. Tobin

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A Blind Eye to Campus Anti-Semitism?

Kenneth L. Marcus

How Washington justifies its refusal to prosecute anti-Semitic hate on campuses.

In "Acceptable in Polite Society," Daniel Gordis examines the anti-Israel animus embedded in Time magazine's latest cover story, and how old stereotypes are re-emerging in the mainstream media.

Holiday Note

6:52 PM, 09.08.10

To observe the Jewish New Year and the Sabbath immediately following, there will be no new Contentions ...

Floyd Patterson, Call Your Office

6:51 PM, 09.08.10

In his remarks in Cleveland today, President Obama said so many things that are so misleading that ...

Is Obama's Middle Name Hoover?

6:17 PM, 09.08.10

In Cleveland today, in a remarkably bitter and partisan speech, President Obama ruled out allowing ...

Budget Cut for the Joint IED Defeat Organization?

2:18 PM, 09.08.10

It's hard to know how to interpret this news report in the Washington Times claiming that one of ...

Obama's Rhetoric Only Widening the Enthusiasm Gap?

2:16 PM, 09.08.10

The big news in all the polls is the astounding gap in electoral enthusiasm between voters intending ...

PRESS MAN: Pundit (Declined)

Andrew Ferguson

A profile of Peter Beinart.

The Few, The Proud, The Chosen

Sam Jacobson

Life as a Jewish Marine means accepting the faith of a Separate Tribe.

This Too Shall Pass

John Podhoretz

From the Editor

ENTER LAUGHING

Joseph Epstein

The Cohen Wedding Joke

The Re-Hollowing of the Military

Arthur Herman

Even as Robert Gates prepares to step down in 2011, he and President Obama are charting a frightening course when it comes to national security.

Afghanistan: The Case for Optimism

Max Boot

A July visit offered ample reason to believe victory is achievable.

The Few, The Proud, The Chosen

Sam Jacobson

Life as a Jewish Marine means accepting the faith of a Separate Tribe.

Will Obama Use His UN Veto?

Steven J. Rosen

Mischief against Israel at the United Nations has not yet been met with a strong American response

The Failure of the Liberal Economic Experiment?

James K. Glassman

The meltdown was a severe setback to free-market capitalism. Then something strange happened.

Investing, Then and Now and Always

John Steele Gordon

How much you can make depends on how much you are willing to risk.

Israel’s Conversion Crisis

Mati Wagner

A bill designed to help immigrants had the unintended effect of widening the gulf between Israel and the Diaspora.

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Big Talker

Algis Valiunas

The American “sage” of the 19th century still casts an unfortunate shadow over the 21st.

Shtetl World

Dara Horn

I look inside. Humans swim around like fish.... Those I saw throughout my life, death has crowned them with a green ­existence; all swimming about in the green aquarium, in a silky, airy ­music. Here, the dead live!...

Moss Hart's American Dream

Terry Teachout

A wonderful memoir still tells a relevant tale.

PRESS MAN: Pundit (Declined)

Andrew Ferguson

A profile of Peter Beinart.

Acting White, by Stuart Buck
Reviewed by Naomi Schaefer Riley
The Chosen Peoples, by Todd Gitlin and Liel Leibovitz
Reviewed by Sam Siegel
The Flight of the Intellectuals, by Paul Berman
Reviewed by Michael C. Moynihan
The Arab Lobby, by Mitchell Bard
Reviewed by Mona Charen
More Money than God, by Sebastian Mallaby
Reviewed by James Pethokoukis
The Hebrew Republic, by Eric Nelson
Reviewed by Peter Savodnik
Great Books, by W.G. Runciman
Reviewed by Brendan Boyle
Beatrice and Virgil, by Yann Martel
Reviewed by Sam Sacks
97 Orchard, by Jane Ziegelman
Reviewed by Jenna Weissman Joselit
Hitch-22, by Christopher Hitchens
Reviewed by Liam Julian
Obama and the Jews

Reader Letters in response to the Commentary Symposium "Obama, Israel & American Jews: The Challenge."

Containing Iran

Reader Letters in response to Bret Stephens's “Iran Cannot Be Contained.”

Islamist Turkey

Reader Letters in response to Michael Rubin's "Turkey, from Ally to Enemy."

Tangling with Tehran

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