October 1986 Issue, COMMENTARY

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  Issues of 1986 = 12 Issues, 158 Articles
  1. [+]
    January 1986 Issue = 13 Articles
    1. Letters by Richard Nixon, M.C. O'Dowd, and Charles J. Robinove, ..., pp. 6-22
    2. Behind the Black-Jewish Split by Glenn C. Loury, pp. 23-27
    3. Do We Still Need Europe? by Eliot A. Cohen, pp. 28-35
    4. New York Down, Washington up by Tod Lindberg, pp. 36-42
    5. A Misdiagnosis of American Medicine by Florence A. Ruderman, pp. 43-49
    6. Professor Vendler's Garden of Verses by James Gardner, pp. 50-55
    7. Dinner with Butler and Eisenhower by Edward Le Comte, pp. 56-62
    8. Settlers by Edith Pearlman, pp. 63-67
    9. [+]
      The Judge & the Schools by James Q. Wilson, pp. 68-71 - 1 Review
      1. Common Ground by J. Anthony Lukas
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      Redemption from Without by Richard S. Levy, pp. 72-74 - 1 Review
      1. The German Jew by Hans I. Bach
    11. [+]
      Losing Hope by Roger Kaplan, p. 75 - 1 Review
      1. Liberalism and Its Challengers by Alonzo L. Hamby
    12. [+]
      Marxism's Legacy by Edward Pearce, pp. 76-77 - 1 Review
      1. Alien Powers by Kenneth R. Minogue
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      "Only a Murder" by Rachel Abrams, pp. 78-82 - 1 Review
      1. The Victim's Song by Alice R. Kaminsky
  2. [+]
    February 1986 Issue = 14 Articles
    1. Letters by Richard Lowenthal, Mihaijo Mihailov, and A. Lawrence Chickering, ..., pp. 2-18
    2. How the Constitution Disappeared by Lino A. Graglia, pp. 19-27
    3. Liberalism and Zionism by Edward Alexander, pp. 28-33
    4. The Lost Honor of Geraldine Ferraro by James Ring Adams, pp. 34-38
    5. Execution Day in Riyadh by Clifford Hallam, pp. 39-45
    6. Kafka's Father, Agnon's Mother, Bellow's Cousins by Robert Alter, pp. 46-52
    7. Who's Afraid of Women's Studies? by Elizabeth Lilla, pp. 53-57
    8. In the House of Glass by Ken Chowder, pp. 58-65
    9. [+]
      Bearing Arms by Philip Gold, pp. 66-67 - 1 Review
      1. Citizens and Soldiers by Eliot A. Cohen
    10. [+]
      "Sir Oracle" by Jonathan D. Sarna, pp. 68-70 - 1 Review
      1. Selected Letters of Cyrus Adler by Ira Robinson and Cyrus Adler
    11. [+]
      The New Neutralism by Jeffrey Herf, p. 71 - 1 Review
      1. Peace and Survival by David Gress
    12. [+]
      Svetlana in Wonderland by Anita Susan Grossman, pp. 72-75 - 1 Review
      1. The Faraway Music by Svetlana Allilueva
    13. [+]
      Preacher's Progress by Terry Teachout, pp. 76-78 - 1 Review
      1. Oral Roberts: An American Life by David Edwin Harrell, Jr.
    14. [+]
      Holding the Center by Larry D. Nachman, pp. 79-82 - 1 Review
      1. Cutting Edges by Charles Krauthammer
  3. [+]
    March 1986 Issue = 13 Articles
    1. Letters by Michael David Blume, Eugen Loebl, and Jocelyn Tomkin, ..., pp. 4-14
    2. In Occupied Poland by Martin Krygier, pp. 15-23
    3. Naked Racial Preference by Carl Cohen, pp. 24-31
    4. Son, Father, Judge by Hanoch Bartov, pp. 32-39
    5. Vietnam by Doan Van Toai, pp. 40-43
    6. Back to Criminal Psychology by Joseph Adelson, pp. 44-46
    7. Truffaut & Other Auteurs by Richard Grenier, pp. 47-52
    8. E.l. Doctorow's "Jewish" Radicalism by Carol Iannone, pp. 53-57
    9. [+]
      Theologian & Activist by Richard John Neuhaus, pp. 58-63 - 1 Review
      1. Reinhold Niebuhr: A Biography by Richard Wightman Fox
    10. [+]
      The Making of SDI by Gerald M. Steinberg, pp. 64-65 - 1 Review
      1. Star Warriors by William J. Broad
    11. [+]
      Dayan & His World by Daniel Casse, pp. 66-67 - 1 Review
      1. My Father, His Daughter by Yael Dayan
    12. [+]
      The Marshal by Edward Pearce, pp. 68-69 - 1 Review
      1. Petain: Hero or Traitor by Herbert R. Lottman
    13. [+]
      Richies & Regulars by Eric M. Breindel, pp. 70-74 - 1 Review
      1. Politics by Edward Koch and William Rauch
  4. [+]
    April 1986 Issue = 13 Articles
    1. Letters by Jefferson Morley, Andrea N. Levin, and Irving J. Block, ..., pp. 2-14
    2. How Not to Occupy the West Bank by Menahem Milson, pp. 15-22
    3. Therefore Choose Death? by Paul S. Appelbaum and Joel Klein, pp. 23-29
    4. Ethiopia: The Communist Uses of Famine by Arch Puddington, pp. 30-38
    5. A Russian Writer's Jewish Fate by Simon Markish, pp. 39-47
    6. E.B. White, Dark & Lite by Joseph Epstein, pp. 48-56
    7. Indian Art---and Ours by James Gardner, pp. 57-62
    8. Why Computers Can't Be Poets by William Barrett, pp. 63-65
    9. [+]
      Technology & the Technocrats by Angelo M. Codevilla, pp. 66-69 - 1 Review
      1. The Heavens and the Earth by Walter A. McDougall
    10. [+]
      Reporting the Holocaust by Daniel Casse, pp. 70-71 - 1 Review
      1. Beyond Belief by Deborah E. Lipstadt
    11. [+]
      Dickens as Conservative by Robert Alter, pp. 72-73 - 1 Review
      1. Dickens and the Social Order by Myron Magnet
    12. [+]
      Litany of Disaster by J. Kirby Simon, pp. 74-75 - 1 Review
      1. Military Incompetence by Richard A. Gabriel
    13. [+]
      The Rise of Athens by Richard John Neuhaus, pp. 76-82 - 1 Review
      1. Without God, Without Creed by James C. Turner
  5. [+]
    May 1986 Issue = 13 Articles
    1. Letters by Paul Starr, Daniel Bell, Jonathan B. Imber, and Alfred I. Tauber, ..., pp. 4-20
    2. How SDI Is Being Undone From Within by Angelo M. Codevilla, pp. 21-29
    3. The Arab World Discovers Anti-Semitism by Bernard Lewis, pp. 30-34
    4. Montezuma's Literary Revenge by Fernanda Eberstadt, pp. 35-40
    5. Religion in Post-Protestant America by Peter L. Berger, pp. 41-46
    6. Gorbachev and the Jews by Allan Kagedan, pp. 47-50
    7. Close Calls by Johanna Kaplan, pp. 51-56
    8. The Later, and Greater, Strauss by Samuel Lipman, pp. 57-63
    9. [+]
      Fighting the Sandinistas by Penn Kemble, pp. 64-67 - 1 Review
      1. With the Contras by Christopher Dickey
    10. [+]
      Cause Celebre by Scott McConnell, pp. 68-71 - 1 Review
      1. The Affair: The Case of Alfred Dreyfus by Jean-Denis Bredin
    11. [+]
      Soul-Gazer by Larry D. Nachman, pp. 72-73 - 2 Reviews
      1. The Moral Life of Children by Robert Coles
      2. The Political Life of Children by Robert Coles
    12. [+]
      Approaching the City by Jules Cohn, pp. 74-77 - 3 Reviews
      1. Setting Municipal Priorities, 1986 by Charles Brecher and Raymond D. Horton
      2. Political Crisis/Fiscal Crisis by Martin Shefter
      3. Beyond Entitlement by Lawrence M. Mead
    13. [+]
      A Pitiless Tableau by Theodore S. Hamerow, pp. 78-82 - 1 Review
      1. The Holocaust by Martin Gilbert
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    June 1986 Issue = 13 Articles
    1. Letters by Samuel Rabinove, William E. Johnston, Jr., and Lawrence E. Mitchell, ..., pp. 2-20
    2. The Family, the Nation, and Senator Moynihan by Glenn C. Loury, pp. 21-26
    3. Nicaragua by David Horowitz, pp. 27-31
    4. Where Arabism and Zionism Differ by Elie Kedourie, pp. 32-36
    5. The Scandal of "Peace Education" by Andre Ryerson, pp. 37-46
    6. Reflections on the Art of Lying by Dafna Allon, pp. 47-54
    7. Variant Text by Allegra Goodman, pp. 55-63
    8. The Political-Literary Complex by Carol Iannone, pp. 64-67
    9. [+]
      "Some" of the News by Terry Teachout, pp. 68-72 - 1 Review
      1. Murrow: His Life and Times by A.M. Sperber
    10. [+]
      The Golden Age & After by Lucy S. Dawidowicz, p. 73 - 1 Review
      1. The Utopian Dilemma by Murray Friedman
    11. [+]
      The Poet of Common Sense by Diana Schaub, pp. 74-75 - 1 Review
      1. Franklin of Philadelphia by Esmond Wright
    12. [+]
      Nowhere to Go by Larry D. Nachman, pp. 76-77 - 1 Review
      1. The Unwanted by Michael R. Marrus
    13. [+]
      The Campaign Trail by Gregory A. Fossedal, pp. 78-82 - 1 Review
      1. The Outside Story by Richard Brookhiser
  7. [+]
    July 1986 Issue = 13 Articles
    1. Letters by David C. Stolinsky, James L. Bernat, and Lawrence I. Bonchek, ..., pp. 2-10
    2. Losing Central America by Max Singer, pp. 11-14
    3. Syria: The Cuba of the Middle East? by Daniel Pipes, pp. 15-22
    4. Petropower and Soviet Expansion by Edward Jay Epstein, pp. 23-28
    5. Whose Palestine? by Erich Isaac and Rael Jean Isaac, pp. 29-37
    6. Miss Pym and Mr. Larkin by Joseph Epstein, pp. 38-46
    7. The Staged 60's by Louis Rapoport, pp. 47-52
    8. Ortega y Gasset Revisited by Richard John Neuhaus, pp. 53-57
    9. [+]
      Defending the West by Stephen Peter Rosen, pp. 58-59 - 1 Review
      1. Star Wars: Suicide on Survival? by Alun Chalfont
    10. [+]
      "The Family" by Harvey Klehr, pp. 60-61 - 1 Review
      1. The Big Dance by John Castellucci
    11. [+]
      Ordinary People by Micah Morrison, pp. 62-63 - 1 Review
      1. Heroes and Hustlers, Hard Hats and Holy Men by Ze'ev Chafets
    12. [+]
      Clean Hands by Alvin H. Bernstein, pp. 64-67 - 1 Review
      1. The Last Two Years of Salvador Allende by Nathaniel Davis
    13. [+]
      The Goddess That Failed by Terry Teachout, pp. 68-74 - 1 Review
      1. The Passion of Ayn Rand by Barbara Branden
  8. [+]
    August 1986 Issue = 13 Articles
    1. Letters by Jim Courter, Elias M. Schwarzbart, and B. Bruce-Briggs, ..., pp. 2-16
    2. Why Reagan Won and Stockman Lost by James Q. Wilson, pp. 17-21
    3. Paying Less Attention to the Middle East by Richard N. Haass, pp. 22-26
    4. Feminism, Stage Three by Michael Levin, pp. 27-31
    5. In Berlin Again by Lucy S. Dawidowicz, pp. 32-41
    6. The Prince of English Poets by Fernanda Eberstadt, pp. 42-46
    7. Yalta and the Neoconservatives by Paul Seabury, pp. 47-49
    8. Archaeology as Politics by Hershel Shanks, pp. 50-53
    9. [+]
      The Terrorist Mosaic by Angelo M. Codevilla, pp. 54-55 - 1 Review
      1. Hydra of Carnage by Uri Ra'anan, Robert L. Pfaltzgraff, Jr., and Richard H. Shultz, ...
    10. [+]
      Castro's Gulag by Mark Falcoff, pp. 56-57 - 1 Review
      1. Against All Hope by Armando Valladares
    11. [+]
      The Southern Jewries by Robert M. Seltzer, pp. 58-59 - 1 Review
      1. The Road from Babylon by Chaim Raphael
    12. [+]
      The New York School by James Gardner, pp. 60-61 - 1 Review
      1. Pollock and After by Francis Frascina
    13. [+]
      Words and Deeds by Michael Ledeen, pp. 62-66 - 2 Reviews
      1. Morality, Reason, and Power by Gaddis Smith
      2. The Uncertain Crusade by Joshua Muravchik
  9. [+]
    September 1986 Issue = 13 Articles
    1. Letters by Barbara B. Blum, Ernest W. Lefever, and Jacquelyne Johnson Jackson, ..., pp. 2-18
    2. Will Gorbachev Reform the Soviet Union? by Vladimir Bukovsky, pp. 19-24
    3. Sandinista Anti-Semitism and Its Apologists by Joshua Muravchik, Susan Alberts, and Antony Korenstein, ..., pp. 25-29
    4. The Demotion of Man by Peter Shaw, pp. 30-36
    5. A Case of Academic Freedom by Joseph Epstein, pp. 37-47
    6. The Manchester Connection by Chaim Raphael, pp. 48-53
    7. Yuppies in Rhyme by Carol Iannone, pp. 54-57
    8. [+]
      The Life of Ideas by Myron Magnet, pp. 58-60 - 1 Review
      1. Marriage and Morals Among the Victorians by Gertrude Himmelfarb
    9. [+]
      World Struggle by Eliot A. Cohen, pp. 61-62 - 1 Review
      1. Game Plan by Zbigniew K. Brzezinski
    10. [+]
      Caste, Class & Quota by Gideon G. Rose, p. 63 - 1 Review
      1. Joining the Club by Dan A. Oren
    11. [+]
      Flight to Freedom by Juliana Geran Pilon, pp. 64-65 - 1 Review
      1. Soviet Defectors by Vladislav Krasnov
    12. [+]
      Inside a Christian School by Terry Teachout, pp. 66-69 - 1 Review
      1. God's Choice by Alan Peshkin
    13. [+]
      Talking to South Africans by Samuel P. Huntington, pp. 70-74 - 1 Review
      1. Dispensations by Richard John Neuhaus
  10. [+]
    October 1986 Issue = 13 Articles
    1. Letters by Michael Curtis, Norman G. Finkelstein, and Yehoshua Porath, ..., pp. 2-24
    2. Team B by Richard Pipes, pp. 25-40
    3. The Tenured Left by Stephen H. Balch and Herbert I. London, pp. 41-51
    4. Shcharansky's Secret by Edward Alexander, pp. 52-56
    5. Sodomy and the Supreme Court by David Robinson, Jr., pp. 57-61
    6. Our Conservatism and Theirs by Brigitte Berger and Peter L. Berger, pp. 62-67
    7. The Truth About Titoism by Nora Beloff, pp. 68-71
    8. Walter Laqueur at Sixty-Five by Roger Kaplan, pp. 72-75
    9. [+]
      Warring on the Pentagon by Alvin H. Bernstein, pp. 76-77 - 1 Review
      1. America Can Win by Gary Hart and William S. Lind
    10. [+]
      The Lure of Socialism by Scott McConnell, pp. 78-80 - 1 Review
      1. Third World Ideology and Western Reality by Carlos Rangel
    11. [+]
      Who Won at Camp David by S. Fred Singer, pp. 81-82 - 2 Reviews
      1. Camp David: Peacemaking and Politics by William B. Quandt
      2. Sadat and Begin by Melvin A. Friedlander
    12. [+]
      A Usable Past? by Kenneth S. Lynn, p. 83 - 1 Review
      1. The Lyrical Left by Edward Abrahams
    13. [+]
      Diatribe by Joshua Muravchik, pp. 84-90 - 1 Review
      1. The Rise of the Counter-Establishment by Sidney Blumenthal
  11. [+]
    November 1986 Issue = 14 Articles
    1. Letters by Howard Ris, Susan Alexander, Andre Ryerson, and Ben Wattenberg, ..., pp. 2-20
    2. The Hate That Dare Not Speak Its Name by Norman Podhoretz, pp. 21-32
    3. Shades of Containment by Steven R. Sturm, pp. 33-39
    4. "And That's What I Like About the South" by Joseph Epstein, pp. 40-50
    5. Middle East Perplexities by Elie Kedourie, pp. 51-55
    6. Lionel Trilling and His Critics by Lionel Abel, pp. 56-63
    7. Nicaraguan Journey by Stephen Schwartz, pp. 64-69
    8. The Powerful Simplifiers by John P. Sisk, pp. 70-73
    9. [+]
      For Art's Sake by Fernanda Eberstadt, pp. 74-75 - 1 Review
      1. Less Than One by Joseph Brodsky
    10. [+]
      The Real Paul? by Jaroslav Pelikan, pp. 76-77 - 1 Review
      1. The Mythmaker by Hyam Maccoby
    11. [+]
      Truth in Science by Edward O. Wilson, pp. 78-80 - 1 Review
      1. Storm Over Biology by Bernard Davis
    12. [+]
      The Libel Explosion by Daniel Casse, pp. 81-82 - 2 Reviews
      1. Suing the Press by Rodney A. Smolla
      2. Talking Back to the Media by Peter Hannaford
    13. [+]
      Soviet Espionage by Harvey Klehr, pp. 83-85 - 1 Review
      1. The FBI-KGB War by Robert J. Lamphere and Tom Shachtman
    14. [+]
      Blinking Owls by David Gress, pp. 86-90 - 1 Review
      1. Nuclear Ethics by Joseph S. Nye, Jr.
  12. [+]
    December 1986 Issue = 13 Articles
    1. Letters by Irving Louis Horowitz, Robert Eisner, and Kenneth Carlson, ..., pp. 4-18
    2. How the Nicaraguan Resistance Can Win by Penn Kemble and Arturo J. Cruz, Jr., pp. 19-29
    3. Palestine for the Syrians? by Daniel Pipes, pp. 30-36
    4. Capitalism and Selfishness by Andre Ryerson, pp. 37-40
    5. The Judaism Born in America by Howard Singer, pp. 41-47
    6. Wish List by Allegra Goodman, pp. 48-58
    7. For Whom the Bell Tolled by Jeffrey Hart, pp. 59-61
    8. W.E.B. Du Bois by Eric J. Sundquist, pp. 62-67
    9. [+]
      Slaughter of the Innocents by Angelo M. Codevilla, pp. 68-70 - 1 Review
      1. "The Target is Destroyed" by Seymour M. Hersh
    10. [+]
      Man of Letters by George Sim Johnston, pp. 71-73 - 1 Review
      1. Going to the Territory by Ralph Ellison
    11. [+]
      Manual of Statecraft by Larry D. Nachman, pp. 74-75 - 1 Review
      1. Thinking in Time by Richard E. Neustadt and Ernest R. May
    12. [+]
      Unstable Neighbor by Lauren Weiner, p. 76 - 1 Review
      1. Mexico: Chaos on Our Doorstep by Sol Sanders
    13. [+]
      Healers as Killers by Daniel Jonah Goldhagen, pp. 77-82 - 1 Review
      1. The Nazi Doctors by Robert Jay Lifton
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  Issues of 1987 = 12 Issues, 158 Articles
9. [+]
  Issues of 1988 = 12 Issues, 200 Articles
10. [+]
  Issues of 1989 = 12 Issues, 152 Articles
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Issues of the 1990s = 10 Years, 114 Issues, 1,663 Articles
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  Issues of 1990 = 12 Issues, 165 Articles
2. [+]
  Issues of 1991 = 12 Issues, 150 Articles
3. [+]
  Issues of 1992 = 12 Issues, 185 Articles
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  Issues of 1993 = 12 Issues, 151 Articles
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  Issues of 1994 = 12 Issues, 162 Articles
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  Issues of 1995 = 12 Issues, 225 Articles
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  Issues of 1996 = 10 Issues, 174 Articles
8. [+]
  Issues of 1997 = 11 Issues, 158 Articles
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  Issues of 1998 = 10 Issues, 136 Articles
10. [+]
  Issues of 1999 = 11 Issues, 157 Articles
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Issues of the 2000s = 9 Years, 84 Issues, 1,205 Articles
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  Issues of 2000 = 10 Issues, 150 Articles
2. [+]
  Issues of 2001 = 11 Issues, 147 Articles
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  Issues of 2002 = 11 Issues, 148 Articles
4. [+]
  Issues of 2003 = 11 Issues, 159 Articles
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  Issues of 2004 = 11 Issues, 142 Articles
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  Issues of 2005 = 11 Issues, 186 Articles
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  Issues of 2006 = 7 Issues, 98 Articles
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  Issues of 2007 = 3 Issues, 54 Articles
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  Issues of 2008 = 9 Issues, 121 Articles