By Offering the Palestinians Something for Nothing, the Trump Administration Starts Off on the Wrong Foot
More sticks, not more carrots, are what’s needed.
March 22, 2017
Norman Podhoretz’s Once-Controversial Memoir, 50 Years On
Making It.
The appearance in 1967 of Making It, Norman Podhoretz’s tale of coming to maturity in the world of the New York intellectuals—and of the naked ambition for fame and prestige that drove both him and them—created no small amount of controversy. Friends and mentors had discouraged him from publishing it in the first place, warm relationships turned cold, and the book met with decidedly harsh reviews. Yet reading Making It a half-century later—it has just been re-released by the publishing arm of the New York Review of Books, which had been among the journals to pan the first edition—Scott Johnson finds this reaction difficult to understand. The book itself, he reports, is no less compelling now than then:
March 22, 2017
America’s Road Ahead in Syria
The U.S. is fighting the wrong war in the Middle East.
The Six-Day War and the West German Left’s Turn to Anti-Semitism
On both sides of the Iron Curtain, anti-Zionism never strayed far from hatred of Jews.
Norman Podhoretz’s Once-Controversial Memoir, 50 Years On
Making It.
A New Play Reveals the Thread Connecting Fascism, Moral Relativism, and Post-Modern Intellectual Decadence
Paul de Man, the man.