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FORGIVE ME for quoting myself, but there's no other way to begin: 'History rarely issues us a red alert. But the surrender by America's premier university to its anti-intellectual assailants [...]

ONE DAY in the early 1980s I received a call from a man in Florida who introduced himself as the son of Meir Blinkin--or Blinken, according to 1904 United States [...]

BEING SILENCED or harassed for unpopular speech on a university campus is by now such a mark of distinction that I may be accused of exercising bragging rights in describing [...]

The article focuses on the turmoil at Harvard University, discussing the ousting of Lawrence Summers and the subsequent resignation of Claudine Gay, highlighting controversies surrounding issues such as anti-Semitism, academic standards, and diversity initiatives. It mentions how these controversies reflect broader challenges facing higher education institutions and the implications for academic freedom and institutional leadership.

THE FIRST FAN LETTER I ever wrote was to Philip Roth in 1959 after reading Goodbye, Columbus. I was not in the habit of complimenting writers, not Saul Bellow for [...]

THE WAR OVER HISTORY begins where the war in history leaves off, which may be why Hannah Arendt's coverage of the trial of Adolf Eichmann caused more anguish in New [...]

INDECENT, A NEW BROADWAY play that revels in its profanity, has a problem: How do you produce socially defiant art in a society that no longer upholds any standards of [...]

Joseph I. Lieberman LET ME BEGIN my answer to Commentary's question with some very good news. Fifty years from now, and, for that matter, 500 years from now and 5,000 [...]

SAUL BELLOW moved from Chicago to Boston soon after I moved from Montreal to Cambridge in 1993 to teach at Harvard. Our proximity meant that, in addition to deepening the [...]

'The jews are better today because of him.' With this assurance, Joseph Telushkin concludes his new study of Menachem M. Schneerson, the seventh rebbe of Chabad, the Hasidic movement established [...]

CANCELLED and current passports show that I have been in Israel 40 times since 1992, on visits lasting from several days to several months. In the future I will no [...]

THE CHARGE that Israel's incursion into Gaza led to a 'disproportionate' use of force against Palestinians, issued by the likes of former President Jimmy Carter and UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, [...]

A JEWISH CHILD growing up as I did in Montreal during the 1940's absorbed Zionism as naturally as Canadian ground did the snow in springtime. Our island city was divided [...]

'DO YOU know how my father would try out a new pen?' the Jewish Communist in Warsaw asked her American visitor in the early 1970's. 'My father was a pious […]

[In] this country there was a time when virtually all intellectual vitality was derived in one way or another from the Communist Party. If you were not somewhere within the [...]

BY ISRAELI standards, my friend Gerhard Mandel lived a fairly typical life. Born in Vienna in 1929, he was brought to Palestine in 1938 as part of a rescue operation […]

The Plot Against America by Philip Roth Houghton Mifflin. 400pp. $26.00 IT ONCE seemed as though Philip Roth had come on the American scene too late to have any compelling […]

The article discusses the massacre of Jews on Ukraine land as every time Ukrainians fought for their Independence against the poles, czars, Germans, they violated the Jewish communities that lay defenseless in their path and so the greatest heroes of Ukrainian Independence have also figured as Arch-villains of Jewish destruction.

IN JUNE 1993, David Gelernmeter, a professor of computer science at Yale, received a unique summons to consider the problem of evil in America: a parcel addressed to him by [...]