Afraid to Make New Enemies, Iran Wants to Stay Out of the Caucasus Conflict
Turkey and a restive minority further complicate an already complicated situation.
October 21, 2020
How the American Jewish Committee Created One of the Country’s Most Important Magazines
Dedicated to the proposition that America and Israel are forces for good in the world.
In 1945, the American Jewish Committee (AJC) replaced its house organ, the Contemporary Jewish Record, with a more ambitious publication that sought to attract the foremost Jewish writers—and some of the foremost Gentile writers, too. What resulted was the monthly Commentary¸ which since then has had an outsized influence on American politics, literature, and culture. On the occasion of Commentary’s 75th anniversary, Norman Podhoretz, who edited the magazine from 1960 to 1994, discusses its history with his son, John Podhoretz, who took over the editorship in 2009—and lays out what he sees as its mission:
October 21, 2020
Jordan’s New Prime Minister Seems Ready to Improve Relations with the Gulf States
And that could be good for Israel.
Contrary to Popular Myth, Religious Households Tend to Have Greater Spousal Equality
No handmaids they.
How the American Jewish Committee Created One of the Country’s Most Important Magazines
Dedicated to the proposition that America and Israel are forces for good in the world.
Viennese Philosophy in the Shadow of Nazism
How anti-Semites pitted Wittgenstein’s “Jewish mathematicality” against the thought of Heidegger.