Attempting to explain itself in terms of Jewish history has become a costly, even catastrophic, failure for Israel. Nowadays not even American Jews have sufficient historical purchase to grasp that kind of argument. Israel today is far more readily explained in terms of the American precedent than of...

The late Norman Mailer transformed himself into one of the best English stylists of the later twentieth century and wrote several books that will last.

The Jewsmatchless capacity to read their Gentile neighbors, together with their fixed resolve to survive as a nation, made them what they are today.

American society has always been unconventional in its search for men of Washington's mold, who care less for power and glory than for freedom, democracy, and doing right.

Americanshave an obligation to ponder Obama's views of American reality in the context of his membership in the first generation fully shaped after the Cultural Revolution.

The problem with the American Jewish left, from 1940 through 2006, is not malevolence but naiveté--naiveté so great, it is the next best thing to stupidity.

Advice on the State of the Union. No charge.

A review of Milton Himmelfarb's Jews and Gentiles.