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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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Stephen L. Carter, who teaches law at Yale, begins his new book with a benign trick.
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May 1994 |
Reviewed by Suzanne Garment |
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There is no point trying to be solemn about Hell of a Ride. It is a very funny book about the political demise of President George Bush and his administration, and to opine at length on its implications for the future of democratic governance would only make one sound like the most pompous of the fools whom John Podhoretz skewers here.
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December 1993 |
Reviewed by Suzanne Garment |
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At the very beginning of his new book, Kevin Phillips reminds us of his outstanding record in predicting—and in creating—major trends in American politics.
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April 1993 |
Reviewed by Suzanne Garment |
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We will simply have to accept, for the present, that no more than two people in the world can know with certainty whether Clarence Thomas said to Anita Hill what she says he did.
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January 1992 |
Suzanne Garment |
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As the battle over the nomination of John Tower to be Secretary of Defense raged across the television screens of the republic, careering from White House press conference to talk show to Senate debate courtesy of
C-Span, it looked like the attack on Robert Bork
all over again.
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May 1989 |
Suzanne Garment |
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Pro-Bork and anti-Bork politicians worked together at the end to hustle the Bork debate off the public stage as quickly as possible. Well they
might. The war against Robert Bork showed the modern American Left at its ugliest, and the response by pro-Bork forces showed the Right at its
most impotent.
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January 1988 |
Suzanne Garment |
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In the wake of Gary Hart's withdrawal from the presidential race, the American press and its friends are as divided on a major ethical issue as they have been in a long time. Are journalists morally right to
train their batteries of criminal-investigation techniques on people who are not perpetrators of any crime? Has the press crossed a vital line in claiming the right to examine even the most private
aspects of public persons' lives?
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August 1987 |
Suzanne Garment |
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Garry Wills has written what is in some respects a conventional biography of Ronald Reagan. There is real research in it, and facts that most readers will not have known before.
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May 1987 |
Reviewed by Suzanne Garment |
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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 |
