Foreign Affairs
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Not the Worst of Times—Or the Best
The First Universal Nation: Leading Indicators and Ideas About the Surge of America in the 1990s by…
Evangelical Growth and Politics in Latin America
Is Latin America Turning Protestant? The Politics of Evangelical Growth by david stoll university of california press,…
Pacifism, Just War & the Gulf: An Exchange
IJanuary 30, 1991 Dear Richard, Your column in the Wall Street Journal (January 23, 1991), “Just War…
1492 and All That
The Conquest of Paradise: Christopher Columbus and the Columbian Legacyby kirkpatrick saleknopf, 453 pages, $24.95 As every…
The Vatican and the State of Israel
In a recently published book, Sergio I. Minerbi, formerly of the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs, speaks…
Israel Among the Nationalisms
With the apparent demise of Communism, if not of socialism, the other political pathology of modernity, nationalism,…
History in the Past Perfect
Is not the past large enough to let you find some place where you may disport yourself…
The Inscrutable Sinologists
China Misperceived: American Illusions and Chinese Reality by steven w. mosher basic books, 260 pages, $19.95 Driven…
The Churches & War in the Gulf
About the public debate preceding Operation Desert Storm, two things may be said with some confidence. First,…
God’s Spy: Malcolm Muggeridge, 1903–1990
In the course of a very long life, Malcolm Muggeridge made many enemies, but he surely made…
Judaism, Zionism, Messianism: Telling Them Apart
The relation between Judaism, Zionism, and Messianism is one that is often hard for Jews to get…
“J” in Bloom
The Book of J translated from the hebrew by david rosenberg interpreted by harold bloom grove weidenfeld,…
The Counterculture’s New Mind
The Genocidal Mentality: Nazi Holocaust and Nuclear Threat by robert jay lifton and eric markusen basic books,…
The Rational Animal
The Culture We Deserve by jacques barzun university press of new england, 185 pages, $19.95 “I have…
Civility and Permissions
Who has been handing out these permission slips?” asks a writer of our acquaintance. He wants to…
