International Guarantees Are No Substitute for Durable Peace Treaties
There’s no guarantee that can guarantee a guarantee.
May 9, 2017
The Making of a New York Jewish Intellectual
Making It turns 50.
When Norman Podhoretz—then editor of Commentary but not yet the founder of neoconservatism—showed a manuscript of his memoir Making It to the great literary critic Lionel Trilling, his mentor, Trilling begged him never to publish it. When the book was nonetheless published, critics promptly panned it. Now a 50th-anniversary edition has been released—part of a series of “20th-century classics.” In conversation with his son John, the elder Podhoretz discusses the bygone literary world he depicts in the book and his own shock at the book’s hostile reception by the denizens of that world. (Video, 80 minutes.)
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Last Week Left Mahmoud Abbas Strengthened and Hamas Weakened
A White House visit and a public-relations stunt.
The Executive Order on Religious Liberty Is Feeble and Ineffective
“A vague and unworkable mishmash that has the potential to make the problem worse.”
The Making of a New York Jewish Intellectual
Making It turns 50.
Love Your Neighbor as Yourself—Whatever His Religion
Leviticus’ universal commandment.