Defending and Advancing Freedom

The Anti-Semitic Disease

Hatred of Jews is not only irrational, it is self-destructive, of nations as well as of individuals.

One Nation, Two Cultures by Gertrude Himmelfarb

Witness to Hope by George Weigel

The Prospering Fathers

Whom, really, did the robber barons rob?

The Miracle

Destiny, and the events of a terrible century, mark the leaders, the citizens, and the nation of Israel.

Arguing for Free Trade

There are two scenarios for world trade in the 21st century, an optimistic and a pessimistic one.

God: A Biography, by Jack Miles

No summary of mine can do justice to the richness of this book.

God and the Americans

Being a short history of religion in the United States, wherein an argument is advanced as to its indispensable role in our founding and subsequent political self-definition; in our social institutions; and--now more than ever--in the preservation of our moral character as a free people.

A World Without Leaders

The late Lord Beaverbrook, owner of the London Daily Express and other successful newspapers, had a habit of calling the office late in the evening and, if not immediately able to track down the editor-in-chief, bellowing: “Who's in charge of the clattering train?”

Diplomacy, by Henry Kissinger

Good diplomats rarely write well about diplomacy.

The Downing Street Years, by Margaret Thatcher

You cannot stop rulers from writing memoirs.

A Place Among the Nations, by Benjamin Netanyahu

One of the many claims that the newly elected head of the Likud party, Benjamin Netanyahu, has to lead Israel—others are youth, courage, and the will to reform the country's paralytic constitutional structure—is the power of communication.

Blessing Capitalism

There is no greater source of muddled thinking than the relationship between religion and economic systems.

Europe: Miracle or Monster?

The ratification, or not, of the Maastricht Treaty shaping the future of the European Community (EC) is a matter of profound importance not only for Europe itself but, in the long run, for the United States as well.

The End of History and the Last Man, by Francis Fukuyama

Educated people have an extraordinary appetite for absolute answers to historical questions, answers which wise historians know cannot be forthcoming.

Scandal, by Suzanne Garment

Suzanne Garment has written a racy and illuminating book which asks important questions.

Hemingway: Portrait of the Artist as an Intellectual

Ernest Hemingway is not only seen to exhibit all the chief characteristics of the intellectual but to possess them to an unusual degree, and in a specifically American combination.

In Praise of Richard Nixon

Richard Nixon remains the most enigmatic of American Presidents. He has been around longer than any other public man in the West, apart from Francois Mitterrand. We ought to know everything about him by now. Yet we know very little.

Israel's Providential Men

The creation of the state of Israel, one of the few events in our tragic century of which one can truthfully say, "This was a good work," invites serious thought about that curious historical no man's land where spiritual and secular forces meet. It was as though, somewhere in the background, the messiah was lurking, never quite making his appearance. But who was the providential man?

The Race for South Africa

The campaign of economic attrition now being waged within the United States against the Republic of South Africa, which is summed up in the word disinvestment, is an outstanding example of the power of political propaganda. That the United States, the richest country in the world, should deliberately set about destroying the economy of what is in some respects still a developing nation is an absurdity in itself. The United States has absolutely nothing to gain, and a good deal to lose, if disinvestment inflicts radical damage.

The Kennedys, by Peter Collier and David Horowitz

The United States, a republic, covers itself in shame when it is false to its republicanism. That is the moral of the audacious attempt by Joseph P. Kennedy to turn his progeny into a surrogate royal family, an attempt ignobly assisted by the liberal media of the East Coast and by a crowd of court historians and other pliant academics.

The Bourgeois Experience: Victoria to Freud, by Peter Gay

We are promised that this is the First installment of "a project of enormous scope," a "multivolume study of the European and American middle classes from the 1820's to the outbreak of World War I." Actually, it is an extensive but not particularly systematic survey of sexuality in the 19th century.

Marxism vs. the Jews

Why is anti-Semitism, at least in its new "respectable" form of anti-Zionism, now found predominantly on the Left of the political spectrum? Why in particular is this new form increasingly common among intellectuals?

After Twenty Years, by Richard J. Barnet and Marcus G. Raskin; and The Troubled Partnership, by Henry A. Kissinger

I cannot remember any time since its formation in 1949 when the Atlantic Alliance was not said to be passing through a crisis. These two sober and well-argued books take the present "crises" very seriously indeed, and display much anxious cogitation about their solution.