January 1999 Issue, COMMENTARY

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  Issues of 1999 = 11 Issues, 157 Articles
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    January 1999 Issue = 27 Articles
    1. Letters, pp. 3-19
    2. Clinton the Country and the Political Culture, p. 20
    3. ï¿½---ï¿½ï¿½by Robert L. Bartley, p. 21
    4. ï¿½---ï¿½ï¿½by William J. Bennett, pp. 22-23
    5. ï¿½---ï¿½ï¿½by Christopher Caldwell, p. 24
    6. ï¿½---ï¿½ï¿½by Midge Decter, pp. 25-26
    7. ï¿½---ï¿½ï¿½by Jean Bethke Elshtain, p. 27
    8. ï¿½---ï¿½ï¿½by David Frum, p. 28
    9. ï¿½---ï¿½ï¿½by David Gelernter, p. 29
    10. ï¿½---ï¿½ï¿½by James K. Glassman, pp. 30-31
    11. ï¿½---ï¿½ï¿½by Jeane J. Kirkpatrick, p. 32
    12. ï¿½---ï¿½ï¿½by William Kristol, p. 33
    13. ï¿½---ï¿½ï¿½by Forrest McDonald, p. 34
    14. ï¿½---ï¿½ï¿½by Walter A. McDougall, pp. 35-36
    15. ï¿½---ï¿½ï¿½by Richard John Neuhaus, p. 37
    16. ï¿½---ï¿½ï¿½by Michael Novak, p. 38
    17. ï¿½---ï¿½ï¿½by Norman Podhoretz, pp. 39-40
    18. ï¿½---ï¿½ï¿½by James Q. Wilson, pp. 41-42
    19. Wye and the Road to War by Douglas J. Feith, pp. 43-47
    20. The Last Time I Saw Paris by Andre Aciman, pp. 48-53
    21. Among the Gender Benders by Wendy Shalit, pp. 54-56
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      Terrorism at the Multiplex by Joshua Muravchik, pp. 57-60 - 1 Review
      1. The Siege (1998 Film) by Edward Zwick
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      First in Flight by Sam Tanenhaus, pp. 61-62 - 1 Review
      1. Lindbergh by A. Scott Berg
    24. [+]
      Breaking the Rules by John Gross, pp. 63-65 - 1 Review
      1. Bech at Bay by John Updike
    25. [+]
      Roads Not Taken by Max Boot, pp. 66-67 - 1 Review
      1. The Wrong War by Jeffrey Record
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      Literary Conscience by Daniel Pipes, pp. 68-69 - 1 Review
      1. Najib Mahfuz by Menahem Milson
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      Don't Tread on Me? by James Nuechterlein, pp. 70-74 - 1 Review
      1. The Story of American Freedom by Eric Foner
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    February 1999 Issue = 13 Articles
    1. Letters, pp. 3-12
    2. Dying Made Easy by Paul R. McHugh, pp. 13-17
    3. The Orthodox Moment by Jack Wertheimer, pp. 18-24
    4. A Dissent on Isaiah Berlin by Norman Podhoretz, pp. 25-37
    5. Fixing Social Security by Amity Shlaes, pp. 38-43
    6. Racial Preferences by Stephan Thernstrom and Abigail Thernstrom, pp. 44-50
    7. Can We Prevent Genocide? by Gary Rosen, pp. 51-55
    8. The Master of Drip by Michael J. Lewis, pp. 56-60
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      Our Zola by Christopher Caldwell, pp. 61-63 - 1 Review
      1. A Man in Full by Tom Wolfe
    10. [+]
      Vox Pop? by Aaron L. Friedberg, pp. 64-65 - 1 Review
      1. Who Speaks for America? by Eric Alterman
    11. [+]
      Beyond Victimhood by Peter Berkowitz, p. 66 - 1 Review
      1. A Dream Deferred by Shelby Steele
    12. [+]
      When Solidarity Fails by Rael Jean Isaac, pp. 67-69 - 1 Review
      1. Brother Against Brother by Ehud Sprinzak
    13. [+]
      Two Cheers by Walter A. McDougall, pp. 70-74 - 1 Review
      1. The American Century by Harold Evans, Gail Buckland, and Kevin Baker
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    March 1999 Issue = 13 Articles
    1. Letters, pp. 5-16
    2. Life, Liberty, Property by Richard Pipes, pp. 17-21
    3. The Rights of History and the Rights of Imagination by Cynthia Ozick, pp. 22-27
    4. Twenty-Four Lies About the Cold War by Gabriel Schoenfeld, pp. 28-35
    5. Poison-Pen Pals by Joseph Epstein, pp. 36-41
    6. Justice for Pinochet? by Elliott Abrams, pp. 42-45
    7. Love of Woman and Love of God by Leon R. Kass, pp. 46-54
    8. Tchaikovsky's Passion by Terry Teachout, pp. 55-59
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      Back to Basics by Elizabeth Powers, pp. 60-63 - 3 Reviews
      1. Ceasefire! by Cathy Young
      2. What Our Mothers Didn't Tell Us by Danielle Crittenden
      3. A Return to Modesty by Wendy Shalit
    10. [+]
      A Company Man by Dan Seligman, pp. 64-66 - 1 Review
      1. The Times of My Life by Max Frankel
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      Observance by David Singer, pp. 67-68 - 1 Review
      1. Rethinking Modern Judaism by Arnold M. Eisen
    12. [+]
      No Bright Lines by Andrew C. McCarthy, p. 69 - 1 Review
      1. All the Laws But One by William H. Rehnquist
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      Silver Threads by Chester E. Finn, Jr., pp. 70-74 - 1 Review
      1. Gray Dawn by Peter G. Peterson
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    April 1999 Issue = 13 Articles
    1. Letters, pp. 3-16
    2. Is There a "Third Way"? by Elliott Abrams, pp. 17-21
    3. The Pope, the Church, and the Jews by Robert S. Wistrich, pp. 22-28
    4. How to Wreck NATO by Joshua Muravchik, pp. 29-33
    5. Mythologizing King Hussein by David Wurmser, pp. 34-37
    6. Of Professors and Pedophiles by Barbara Lerner, pp. 38-40
    7. Being Matisse by Steven C. Munson, pp. 41-45
    8. Masterpieces of the Century by Terry Teachout, pp. 46-50
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      Hard Times by Algis Valiunas, pp. 51-52 - 1 Review
      1. Freedom from Fear by David M. Kennedy
    10. [+]
      Bardolatry by Donald Lyons, pp. 53-55 - 1 Review
      1. Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human by Harold Bloom
    11. [+]
      In the Shadows by Harvey Klehr, pp. 56-57 - 1 Review
      1. A Covert Life by Ted Morgan
    12. [+]
      On Native Grounds? by Edward Alexander, pp. 58-61 - 1 Review
      1. Enlarging America by Susanne Klingenstein
    13. [+]
      Looking Forward by Daniel Casse, pp. 62-66 - 1 Review
      1. The Future and Its Enemies by Virginia Postrel
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    May 1999 Issue = 13 Articles
    1. Letters, pp. 5-24
    2. The War on the War on Crime by Arch Puddington, pp. 25-30
    3. America's Muslims Against America's Jews by Daniel Pipes, pp. 31-36
    4. The Forger and the Spy by Igor Golomstock, pp. 37-41
    5. Why We Were in Central America by Mark Falcoff, pp. 42-48
    6. Building Hitler's Bomb by Jeremy Bernstein, pp. 49-54
    7. Was Kissinger Right? by Gabriel Schoenfeld, pp. 55-60
    8. Masterpieces of the Century by Terry Teachout, pp. 61-66
    9. [+]
      Beyond Galileo by George Weigel, pp. 67-69 - 1 Review
      1. Rocks of Ages by Stephen Jay Gould
    10. [+]
      Testament by Ruth R. Wisse, pp. 70-71 - 1 Review
      1. A Passion for Truth by Eric Breindel and John Podhoretz
    11. [+]
      Scare Tactics by Dan Seligman, pp. 72-73 - 1 Review
      1. Environmental Cancer by S. Robert Lichter and Stanley Rothman
    12. [+]
      Victims, Outlaws, Superstars by Eric J. Sundquist, pp. 74-77 - 1 Review
      1. Rituals of Blood by Orlando Patterson
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      See Chano Ride by Sol Stern, pp. 78-82 - 1 Review
      1. Losing Our Language by Sandra Stotsky
  6. [+]
    June 1999 Issue = 13 Articles
    1. Letters, pp. 3-16
    2. The Road to Kosovo by Joshua Muravchik, pp. 17-23
    3. The New Snake Oil by Samuel McCracken, pp. 24-31
    4. Guns, Tobacco, Big Macs---and the Courts by Peter W. Huber, pp. 32-37
    5. The Seekers by Jon D. Levenson, pp. 38-45
    6. He Flew Through the Air by Joseph Epstein, pp. 46-50
    7. Prosperity for All? by Irwin M. Stelzer, pp. 51-54
    8. Masterpieces of the Century by Terry Teachout, pp. 55-59
    9. [+]
      Jilted by Gabriel Schoenfeld, pp. 60-61 - 1 Review
      1. All Too Human by George Stephanopoulos
    10. [+]
      Beyond the Pale by Daniel Pipes, pp. 62-64 - 1 Review
      1. Gideon's Spies by Gordon Thomas
    11. [+]
      Bearing Witness by Michael J. Lewis, pp. 65-66 - 1 Review
      1. The Twilight of the Intellectuals by Hilton Kramer
    12. [+]
      The Self-Made Founder by Richard A. Samuelson, pp. 67-69 - 1 Review
      1. Alexander Hamilton: American by Richard Brookhiser
    13. [+]
      I Am the Man by Algis Valiunas, pp. 70-74 - 1 Review
      1. Walt Whitman: The Song of Himself by Jerome Loving
  7. [+]
    July-August 1999 Issue = 14 Articles
    1. Letters, pp. 5-26
    2. Arming China Against Ourselves by Aaron L. Friedberg, pp. 27-33
    3. "A Man's Own Household His Enemies" by Gertrude Himmelfarb, pp. 34-38
    4. Can the Bible Be Trusted? by Hillel Halkin, pp. 39-45
    5. What Happened to Ralph Ellison by Norman Podhoretz, pp. 46-58
    6. Triangulating the Constitution by Gary Rosen, pp. 59-65
    7. The Prospering Fathers by Paul Johnson, pp. 66-69
    8. Sex, Death, and Picasso by Steven C. Munson, pp. 70-74
    9. Opera USA by Terry Teachout, pp. 75-79
    10. [+]
      Big Picture by Charles Murray, pp. 80-83 - 1 Review
      1. The Great Disruption by Francis Fukuyama
    11. [+]
      999 by Alan Mintz, pp. 84-85 - 1 Review
      1. A Journey to the End of the Millennium by A.B. Yehoshua
    12. [+]
      The Other War by Bret Louis Stephens, pp. 86-88 - 2 Reviews
      1. Endgame: Solving the Iraq Crisis by Scott Ritter
      2. Tyranny's Ally by David Wurmser
    13. [+]
      A Writer's Writer by Marc Berley, pp. 89-91 - 2 Reviews
      1. Selected Poems by Jorge Luis Borges and Alexander Coleman
      2. Collected Fictions by Jorge Luis Borges
    14. [+]
      Predicting the Past by David Pryce-Jones, pp. 92-98 - 1 Review
      1. Dark Continent by Mark Mazower
  8. [+]
    September 1999 Issue = 13 Articles
    1. Letters, pp. 5-22
    2. "My Beautiful Old House" and Other Fabrications by Edward Said by Justus Reid Weiner, pp. 23-31
    3. The Moral Meaning of Genetic Technology by Leon R. Kass, pp. 32-38
    4. Reds by Joshua Muravchik, pp. 39-43
    5. In Defense of German Jews by Jay M. Harris, pp. 44-48
    6. Can Parents Be Trusted? by Chester E. Finn, Jr., pp. 49-51
    7. The Kubrick Mystique by Midge Decter, pp. 52-54
    8. Mary Cassatt, Modern Painter by Steven C. Munson, pp. 55-57
    9. [+]
      Unwelcome Mat? by Irwin M. Stelzer, pp. 58-61 - 1 Review
      1. Heaven's Door by George J. Borjas
    10. [+]
      Group Memory by David G. Roskies, pp. 62-64 - 1 Review
      1. The Holocaust in American Life by Peter Novick
    11. [+]
      Blast from the Past by Samuel McCracken, p. 65 - 1 Review
      1. The Whole Woman by Germaine Greer
    12. [+]
      Shallow Throat by James Nuechterlein, pp. 66-67 - 1 Review
      1. Shadow by Bob Woodward
    13. [+]
      Evil & Beyond by Kay S. Hymowitz, pp. 68-74 - 1 Review
      1. Cries Unheard---Why Children Kill by Gitta Sereny
  9. [+]
    October 1999 Issue = 13 Articles
    1. Letters, pp. 5-20
    2. What the Republicans Have Forgotten by Daniel Casse, pp. 21-27
    3. Israel's Imperial Judiciary by Hillel Neuer, pp. 28-31
    4. Of Kitsch and Coins by Michael J. Lewis, pp. 32-36
    5. The Word of Hafez al-Assad by Daniel Pipes, pp. 37-40
    6. Freddy Duchamp in Action by Joseph Epstein, pp. 41-47
    7. Lessons of the Great War by Donald Kagan, pp. 48-52
    8. The Composer and the Commissars by Terry Teachout, pp. 53-56
    9. [+]
      Numbers Game by Chester E. Finn, Jr., pp. 57-59 - 1 Review
      1. The Big Test by Nicholas Lemann
    10. [+]
      Hail to the Chief by Gabriel Shoenfeld, pp. 60-63 - 1 Review
      1. An Affair of State by Richard A. Posner
    11. [+]
      Honor Thy Father by David Brooks, p. 64 - 1 Review
      1. Legacy by Christopher Ogden
    12. [+]
      Lost and Found by David Singer, pp. 65-67 - 1 Review
      1. The Jewish Search for a Usable Past by David G. Roskies
    13. [+]
      New World Disorder by Christopher Caldwell, pp. 68-74 - 3 Reviews
      1. The Lexus and the Olive Tree by Thomas L. Friedman
      2. Turbo-Capitalism by Edward N. Luttwak
      3. False Dawn by John Gray
  10. [+]
    November 1999 Issue = 12 Articles
    1. Letters, pp. 3-16
    2. California and the End of White America by Ron Unz, pp. 17-28
    3. Was Zionism Unjust? by Hillel Halkin, pp. 29-35
    4. Confessions of an Ex-Elitist by David Schoenbrod, pp. 36-40
    5. "How Dare You Defame Islam" by Daniel Pipes, pp. 41-45
    6. Masterpieces of Jazz by Terry Teachout, pp. 46-51
    7. The Eye of Alfred Stieglitz by Steven C. Munson, pp. 52-54
    8. [+]
      Home Alone by Mary Eberstadt, pp. 55-57 - 1 Review
      1. Ready or Not by Kay S. Hymowitz
    9. [+]
      The Long Prelude by Robert S. Wistrich, pp. 58-61 - 1 Review
      1. A People Apart by David Vital
    10. [+]
      Sincerity 101 by Wilfred M. McClay, pp. 62-63 - 1 Review
      1. For Common Things by Jedediah Purdy
    11. [+]
      The Red & the Black by Mark Falcoff, pp. 64-68 - 1 Review
      1. The Passing of an Illusion by Francois Furet
    12. [+]
      Of High and Low by David Frum, pp. 69-74 - 1 Review
      1. American Culture, American Tastes by Michael Kammen
  11. [+]
    December 1999 Issue = 13 Articles
    1. Letters, pp. 5-18
    2. Strange Bedfellows by Norman Podhoretz, pp. 19-31
    3. How Psychiatry Lost Its Way by Paul R. McHugh, pp. 32-38
    4. When the Palestinian Army Invades the Heart of Israel by Yuval Steinitz, pp. 39-42
    5. I'm Getting Married Tomorrow by Jennifer Moses, pp. 43-48
    6. Who's Afraid of Jewish Day Schools? by Jack Wertheimer, pp. 49-53
    7. Buchanan as Historial by Gabriel Schoenfeld, pp. 54-58
    8. Jazz Masterpieces by Terry Teachout, pp. 59-64
    9. [+]
      The Actor and the Critic by James Q. Wilson, pp. 65-68 - 1 Review
      1. Dutch: A Memoir of Ronald Reagan by Edmund Morris
    10. [+]
      Review Witness to Hope, by George Weigel by Paul Johnson, pp. 69-71 - 1 Review
      1. Witness to Hope by George Weigel
    11. [+]
      Face of the Century by David Gelernter, pp. 72-73 - 1 Review
      1. Anne Morrow Lindbergh by Susan Hertog
    12. [+]
      Braintwisters by Christopher F. Chabris, pp. 74-76 - 1 Review
      1. The Myth of the First Three Years by John T. Bruer
    13. [+]
      Public Enemies by Gary Rosen, pp. 77-82 - 1 Review
      1. A Necessary Evil by Garry Wills
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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