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May 2009 |
Reviewed by Elliott Abrams |
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February 2000 |
Reviewed by Elliott Abrams |
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Foreign policy has once again become a matter of consequential dispute in American political life. Twenty-one respondents give their views on the current American role in the world and the proper direction of American foreign policy now and in the years ahead.
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January 2000 |
Elliott Abrams, William E Buckley,, Eliot A. Cohen, Francis Fukuyama and Frank J. Gaffney |
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Like his European counterparts, Bill Clinton champions a new politics between Left and Right that is less, or other, than advertised.
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April 1999 |
Elliott Abrams |
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For human-rights activists to applaud the detention of the former Chilean dictator is politically and morally obtuse.
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March 1999 |
Elliott Abrams |
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June 1997 |
Reviewed by Elliott Abrams |
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Ever since the publication of Night in 1958 (English edition, 1960), Elie Wiesel has occupied an almost hallowed position in the moral imagination of our time, beyond the reach of most criticism.
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June 1996 |
Reviewed by Elliott Abrams |
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When Nathan Glazer wrote his classic study, American Judaism, in 1957, he did not invoke the term “Holocaust” even once.
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March 1996 |
Reviewed by Elliott Abrams |
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To commemorate Commentary's fiftieth anniversary, the editors addressed the following statement and questions to a group of American intellectuals:
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November 1995 |
Elliott Abrams, Joseph Adelson, Robert L. Bartley, Arnold Beichman and William J. Bennett |
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Paul Wilkes, a Catholic, has written several books about his own religion.
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December 1994 |
Reviewed by Elliott Abrams |
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August 1992 |
Elliott Abrams, John Attarian, Leonard Bakker, Reuven Bar-Levav and Avrom A. Blumberg |
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“The United States could not remain on the margin of universal history, but did not know how to participate fully or determine what its role therein should be.”
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June 1992 |
Reviewed by Elliott Abrams |
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Richard Nixon's ninth book continues and extends a unique public career.
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March 1992 |
Reviewed by Elliott Abrams |
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When on February 25, 1990, Violeta Chamorro was elected president of Nicaragua, it seemed that an end had finally come to the travail which had beset her country for the previous ten years.
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July 1991 |
Elliott Abrams |
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Intellectual fads differ from commercial fads in that most often they come from the top down, not from the bottom up.
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July 1990 |
Reviewed by Elliott Abrams |
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Central America is our own local "jungle," and we have been enwrapped now for a decade in a seemingly endless, politically divisive battle over a region that until the
late 1970's was remote from our politics.
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May 1989 |
Elliott Abrams |
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In 1981, the third Senate office building will open, expanding Senate office space by 50 percent. Since the number of Senators has remained fixed, the new building is a monument to the growth of staff.
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December 1980 |
Reviewed by Elliott Abrams |
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The myth of the Third World would seem to have fallen on hard times. Those who study the data on political and economic development go even further.
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October 1980 |
Reviewed by Elliott Abrams |
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Two judgments about American politics have come, in this election year, to be widely accepted as descriptions of fact. The evidence cited for these judgments includes such things as the declining turnout among, and alienation of, voters.
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August 1980 |
Reviewed by Elliott Abrams |
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Recently, the editors of COMMENTARY addressed the following statement and questions to a group of American
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January 1980 |
Morris B. Abram, Elliott Abrams, Robert Alter and Josiah Lee Auspitz |
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The late Richard Hofstadter called ours an "Age of Rubbish," and with this view R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr., is entirely in agreement.
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July 1979 |
Reviewed by Elliott Abrams |
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THEODORE H. WHITE is one of the most influential political writers of our time. His Making of the President series has taught a generation of journalists a mode of writing about politics, and a...
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November 1978 |
Reviewed by Elliott Abrams |
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THE publication of John Bartlow Martin's definitive biography of Adlai Stevenson brings to our attention once again Stevenson's curious position in the recent history of the Democratic...
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April 1978 |
Reviewed by Elliott Abrams |
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Perhaps no other legal scholar has in recent years received as much attention from the press as Raoul Berger.
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December 1977 |
Reviewed by Elliott Abrams |
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After years of reporting on life in America for British newspapers, Godfrey Hodgson has now attempted to tell, and to explain, the story of the postwar period in this country.
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February 1977 |
Reviewed by Elliott Abrams |
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The case against the forced busing of schoolchildren is by now a familiar one, and was most persuasively set forth in Nathan Glazer's March 1972 Commentary article, "Is Busing Necessary?"
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November 1976 |
Reviewed by Elliott Abrams |
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Those who live by the media face the risk of dying by it, as Ralph Nader must by now be aware. After a running battle with Nader in the pages of the New Republic, David Sanford has written a pamphlet attacking Nader's life and works.
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October 1976 |
Reviewed by Elliott Abrams |
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Racial and ethnic relations in the United States have long been seen as a great morality play in which injustice is caused by, and will be ended by attacking prejudice.
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October 1975 |
Reviewed by Elliott Abrams |
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In most elections, it is said, people do not so much choose which candidates they are for as eliminate those they are against. On the face of it this notion seems adequately to explain both the 1972 Presidential election, and the mid-term election of 1974, when large majorities voted against Richard Nixon even though his name did not appear on the ballot. Still, the conventional analysis leaves much to be desired.
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February 1975 |
Elliott Abrams |
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Since 1805, when New York's leading families established the Free School Society, the city's schools have played a social, as well as an educational, role.
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August 1974 |
Reviewed by Elliott Abrams |
