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January 2009 |
Reviewed by Wilfred M. McClay |
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In his new biography, Conrad Black takes the full measure of the man who, for better and worse, inaugurated the modern presidency.
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February 2008 |
Wilfred M. McClay |
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June 2007 |
Reviewed by Wilfred M. McClay |
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May 2007 |
Reviewed by Wilfred M. McClay |
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The GOP’s poor showing at the polls does not carry anything like the ideological significance that some have assigned to it.
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January 2007 |
Wilfred M. McClay |
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October 2006 |
Reviewed by Wilfred M. McClay |
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February 2006 |
Reviewed by Wilfred M. McClay |
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What we think we know about the hurricane and the response to it is largely wrong, and seriously disabling.
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December 2005 |
Wilfred M. McClay |
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Liberals loathe the President's evangelicalism, but for reasons they only dimly comprehend.
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June 2005 |
Wilfred M. McClay |
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March 2005 |
Reviewed by Wilfred M. McClay |
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To misread the early movement, as many do, is to miss the real reasons for its success.
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June 2004 |
Wilfred M. McClay |
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November 1999 |
Reviewed by Wilfred M. McClay |
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December 1998 |
Reviewed by Wilfred M. McClay |
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May 1998 |
Reviewed by Wilfred M. McClay |
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For striking down a freedom-of-religion act, the Supreme Court
was condemned on all sides--but it was the right decision.
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October 1997 |
Wilfred M. McClay |
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March 1997 |
Reviewed by Wilfred M. McClay |
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January 1997 |
Reviewed by Wilfred M. McClay |
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John Patrick Diggins is a congenital dissenter.
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November 1996 |
Reviewed by Wilfred M. McClay |
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By now, anyone not holed up in a cave for the past few months must be aware that, in a seven to one decision handed down on June 26, the U.S. Supreme Court ordered the Virginia Military Institute (VMI), a publicly supported, all-male, collegiate-level academy in Lexington, Virginia, to open its doors to women.
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September 1996 |
Wilfred M. McClay |
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One should not confuse the rapidly changing fortunes of the political battlefield with the slow, subterranean process by which ideas are formed and changed.
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August 1996 |
Reviewed by Wilfred M. McClay |
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Irving Kristol is still so visible and energetic a presence in American intellectual life that it is hard to believe he has been at the job for nearly 50 years.
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February 1996 |
Reviewed by Wilfred M. McClay |
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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 political insurgency that has transformed the face of American politics in the past year bears witness to the power of ideas.
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September 1995 |
Wilfred M. McClay |
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The historian Christopher Lasch, who died of cancer in February of last year, was a rare commodity, a cultural analyst and critic whose work actually grew steadily more interesting, and more independent of conventional ideological constraints, as he grew older.
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May 1995 |
Reviewed by Wilfred M. McClay |
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The debacle of the 1988 presidential election not only left the very word "liberalism" badly battered, but may have administered the coup de grace to the only opposition movement with a shred of intellectual and political vitality: the so-called "neoliberals."
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January 1990 |
Reviewed by Wilfred M. McClay |
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Perhaps it is a fair indication of the national mood that each of the parties' 1988 nominees for President is a more or less non-ideological,
pragmatic, managerial type, who does not evince more than a faint tinge of religiosity, and who does not have any deep appeal to the religious groups that found Reagan so attractive. In short, the issues of religion-in-politics are dormant, for now. But it would be a
mistake to think that they are gone for good.
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October 1988 |
Wilfred M. McClay |
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In another twenty-nine years, it will have been half a millennium since the autumn day in 1517 when Martin Luther posted his Ninety-five Theses on the castle church door in Wittenberg.
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July 1988 |
Reviewed by Wilfred M. McClay |
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As anyone acquainted with his work knows, Peter Gay is an enthusiastic partisan of the Enlightenment. From earliest writings, he has consistently championed the rational disenchantment of the
world.
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March 1988 |
Reviewed by Wilfred M. McClay |
