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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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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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The 80's are more and more coming to be characterized by journalists, historians, and intellectuals as a costly if not a disastrous decade for America.
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September 1990 |
Jeane J. Kirkpatrick, Robert B. Reich, George Gilder, Paul Berman and Charles Murray |
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Some leaders win power through inheritance, some through elections, some through civil war or coup d'etat. Yasir Arafat and the PLO are are attempting to come to power through international diplomacy--reinforced by murder. And they have nearly succeeded.
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July 1989 |
Jeane J. Kirkpatrick |
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Exactly forty years ago, in the first issue of COMMENTARY (November 1945), its found- ing editor, the
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November 1985 |
Lionel Abel, William Barrett, Peter L. Berger, Walter Berns and Midge Decter |
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While American attention in the past year has been focused on other matters, developments of great potential importance in Central America and the Caribbean have passed almost unnoticed. The deterioration of the U.S. position in the hemisphere has already created serious vulnerabilities where none previously existed, and threatens now to confront this country with the unprecedented need to defend itself against a ring of Soviet bases on and around our southern and eastern borders.
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January 1981 |
Jeane J. Kirkpatrick |
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The failure of the Carter administration's foreign policy is now clear to everyone except its architects, and even they must entertain private doubts, from time to time, about a policy whose crowning achievement has been to lay the groundwork for a transfer of the Panama Canal from the United States to a swaggering Latin dictator of Castroite bent.
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November 1979 |
Jeane J. Kirkpatrick |
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LONG before Watergate, Richard Nixon, and Spiro Agnew, politics ranked low on opinion scales of admired professions in American life. It is easy enough to understand why this has been the...
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October 1978 |
Reviewed by Jeane J. Kirkpatrick |
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In the years between 1969 and 1975 Kevin Phillips, William A. Rusher, Patrick J. Buchanan, and Richard J. Whalen all wrote books assessing the strengths, weaknesses, and prospects of the American conservative movement as they understood it. Although there are differences in approach, style, and strategy among these writers, they share certain qualities characteristic of what has come to be called the "New Right."
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February 1977 |
Jeane J. Kirkpatrick |
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It has been nearly a decade since the first public reports that then President Lyndon Johnson, one of the most influential political figures of the last fifty years, had chosen as a confidante and preferred biographer a comely White House fellow with Harvard connections and anti-war proclivities.
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August 1976 |
Reviewed by Jeane J. Kirkpatrick |
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The notion that the various geographic regions of the United States are inhabited by people who share some distinctive interests and perspectives is familiar enough; indeed antagonism to the cultural distinctiveness and political influence of the Northeast is a basic premise of the authentic Populist tradition.
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May 1976 |
Reviewed by Jeane J. Kirkpatrick |
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With his account of the decline and fall of Richard Nixon, Theodore White, that indefatigable chronicler of national political life, has not only succeeded once more in transforming presidential politics into best-selling nonfiction, but has also demonstrated that the loss of power can be made as fascinating and satisfying a story as its acquisition.
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November 1975 |
Reviewed by Jeane J. Kirkpatrick |
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Social scientists have frequently been criticized for their preoccupation with the present, and their fondness for static models and static analyses, but in fact a principal concern of sociologists, economists, and political scientists throughout this century has been the process of transition from "traditional" to "modern" society- hardly a static model at all.
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August 1975 |
Reviewed by Jeane J. Kirkpatrick |
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That American political parties are pragmatic rather than ideological is not only a truism, it is also the premise of most standard interpretations of American politics.
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April 1975 |
Reviewed by Jeane J. Kirkpatrick |
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As recently as a decade ago discussion of American government by political scientists was dominated (though never preempted) by a set of interlocking propositions then called pluralism.
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September 1974 |
Reviewed by Jeane J. Kirkpatrick |
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Last year's Presidential election differed from elections of the recent past not so much because of how people voted as why. For millions of Americans cultural values displaced pocketbooks as the chief determinant of Presidential voting.
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February 1973 |
Jeane J. Kirkpatrick |
