Lobbying Degree Zero

October 4, 2007

Moral mudslinging has stifled debate over the Israel lobby.

Stars and Bars

August 9, 2007

How did the American criminal justice system go so wrong?

Among the Disbelievers

May 10, 2007

In their rush to throw out God, atheist writers appear to have given little thought to what should replace Him.

Letters

March 8, 2007

Letters

January 24, 2007

My Beef With Vegetarianism

January 18, 2007

The Bloodless Revolution explores four centuries of arguments for vegetarianism, from good health to fascist politics.

God's Willing Executioners

November 22, 2006

God's War explores the barbaric clash of Christianity and Islam, and what happens when people follow religious voices that no one else can hear.

Letters

October 19, 2006

Ottoman Ghosts

September 7, 2006

Caroline Finkel's new book, Osman's Dream, explores the rise and calamitous fall of the Ottoman Empire.

On Native Grounds

May 4, 2006

Alan Taylor's Divided Ground examines how land-grabbing settlers destroyed Indian society and how postrevolutionary politicians speeded their demise.

Hatchet Man's Heresy Hunt...

March 15, 2006

Pledging Allegiance

March 2, 2006

Todd Gitlin uses patriotism to wallop the radical left in The Intellectuals and the Flag.

The Chosen People

November 30, 2005

The Jewish Century defies the conventional view of Jews as outsiders and traces their symbiotic relationship with Christians. A History of the Jews in the Modern World follows the impact the multitude of journeys that Diaspora Jews have taken on countries in the modern era.

Patriotic Bore

August 25, 2005

Two recent books on Tom Paine and on the unruly birth of US democracy reveal that liberal historians have become believers in the 'radicalism' of the American Revolution.

Letters

August 25, 2005

The Heritage Foundation

May 26, 2005

Paul Johnson and Christopher Hitchens's new books on the Founding Fathers.

Death Camp or Gulag...?

May 12, 2005

Jews Without Borders

March 9, 2005

Letters

March 2, 2005

Intolerable Cruelty

January 27, 2005

The Gods Must Be Crazy

October 28, 2004

Letters

August 11, 2004

Diversity and Its Discontents

May 27, 2004

Letters

May 26, 2004

L'Amérique, Mon Amour

April 8, 2004

Skeletons in the Closet

December 18, 2003

Letters

December 3, 2003

The One-State Solution

October 16, 2003

The more the US sinks into a morass in Iraq, the more the Bush Administration leaps to do Sharon's bidding, the more fierce and wide-ranging the debate is likely to grow.

The New Yorker Goes to War

May 15, 2003

How a nice magazine talked itself into backing Bush's jihad.