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COMMENTARY is America’s premier monthly magazine of opinion and a pivotal voice in American intellectual life. Since its inception in 1945, and increasingly after it emerged as the flagship of neoconservatism in the 1970s, the magazine has been consistently engaged with several large, interrelated questions: the fate of democracy and of democratic ideas in a world threatened by totalitarian ideolo

gies; the state of American and Western security; the future of the Jews, Judaism, and Jewish culture in Israel, the United States, and around the world; and the preservation of high culture in an age of political correctness and the collapse of critical standards. Many of COMMENTARY’s articles have been controversial, and more than a few have been hugely influential, touchstones for debate and discussion in universities, among policy analysts in and out of government, within the ranks of professionals and community activists of all kinds, and in circles of serious thought worldwide. A large number of articles can be counted as landmarks of American letters and intellectual life. To read it is to take part in the great American discussion.

09/12/2024

Biden’s Moment of Senile Amnesia

Today's podcast begins with the shocking moment yesterday when Joe Biden spoke of the American hostage in Syria, Austin Tice, and then, 30 seconds later, entirely forgot who Austin Tice

09/12/2024

"By painting Hussein as an unrepentant serial aggressor determined to rebuild his military power at any cost, Coll vitiates his own argument that the Iraqi despot could have been safely accommodated."

Read the review of The Achilles Trap https://lttr.ai/AY9BO

Saddam Hussein was known for wielding many notorious instruments of power; the pen was not one. But the Iraqi tyrant had a penchant for composing literature, if that’s the word

09/12/2024

Today’s podcast begins with the shocking moment yesterday when Joe Biden spoke of the American hostage in Syria, Austin Tice, and then, 30 seconds later, entirely forgot who Austin Tice was.

Today's podcast begins with the shocking moment yesterday when Joe Biden spoke of the American hostage in Syria, Austin Tice, and then, 30 seconds later, entirely forgot who Austin Tice

09/12/2024

The fight for Syria appears to be over. The end of the Assad regime is an historic event. But history is still being written.

The Bashar al-Assad regime in Syria has collapsed. Sunni rebels, backed by Turkey and Qatar, completed their lightning offensive last night after just a few short days of fighting. Assad’s

09/12/2024

"Lefebvre has the acuity to see that, generally speaking, the behavior of individuals and organized groups in modern democratic societies is liberalism-compliant."

Tod Lindberg reviews Liberalism as a Way of Life: https://lttr.ai/AY9BN

Alexandre Lefebvre’s Liberalism as a Way of Life belongs to the school of Anglo-American political philosophy whose defining figure was Harvard’s John Rawls, author of A Theory of Justice and

09/12/2024

What happened in Amsterdam is, of course, a warning for America, for it is, alas, not difficult to imagine a similar mob made manifest on an Ivy League college quad or on the streets of Los Angeles or New York.

Since the time of Tocqueville, Americans have been best able to understand themselves through the eyes of an insightful outsider. It should therefore be no surprise that the best summation

08/12/2024

"Joshua Leifer’s Tablets Shattered: The End of an American Jewish Century and the Future of Jewish Life [is] an anti-Zionist screed hiding behind a thought-provoking analysis of American Jewry."

Read the full review: https://lttr.ai/AY9BM

Anti-Zionists love masks, from menacing N-95s to human-rights rhetoric that camouflages their Jew-hatred. Case in point: Joshua Leifer’s Tablets Shattered: The End of an American Jewish Century and the Future

08/12/2024

Assad End in Syria

The Bashar al-Assad regime in Syria has collapsed. Sunni rebels, backed by Turkey and Qatar, completed their lightning offensive last night after just a few short days of fighting. Assad’s

08/12/2024

"In the context of American life, unity means always acting through, not around, our most important institutions: the rule of law, norms of ordered liberty, and our Constitution."

Tal Fortgang reviews American Covenant https://lttr.ai/AY9BL

Speaking at the Democratic National Convention in August, United States Olympic basketball coach Steve Kerr waxed poetic about a motif common to politics and sports: unity. After describing how proud

07/12/2024

Edwin Meese III is an enormously consequential man who made invaluable contributions to Reagan’s presidency and our legal system. Calabresi and Lawson do a great service by introducing him to more Americans.

One of the most important speeches of the Reagan presidency was not delivered by the Great Communicator himself. In the summer of 1985, Edwin Meese III—confirmed a few months earlier

07/12/2024

“The facts? The truth? Breslin would always use the former, heavily and well, but use regularly the prerogative that came with a black-lined box that separated him from the news coverage to allow him to get to the latter.”
https://www.commentary.org/articles/rick-marin/jimmy-breslin-the-fraud/
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What if there had been no gravedigger? On November 26, 1963, Jimmy Breslin published a column in the New York Herald Tribune that cemented his reputation as the “voice of

07/12/2024

But while the commission’s purpose was to open higher education to all, there was a competing idea, says Lemann—one that “came to value and champion a select number of private and public institutions that would nurture a kind of talented elite.”

In 1947, the College Board opened an office in Berkeley, California. Previously, from the turn of the century onward, the organization had been administering entrance examinations for schools in the

07/12/2024

It had happened before Clinton, and it happened again after Clinton.

In its 104-year history, Palestinian Arab nationalism has had three leaders. All three were offered a Palestinian state. All three turned it down.

Ever since the Hamas attacks of Oct. 7, 2023, Bill and Hillary Clinton have been unable to hide their frustration with progressives’ retreat into an alternate reality, one in which

06/12/2024

Clinton, Arafat, and a Century of Rejection

Ever since the Hamas attacks of Oct. 7, 2023, Bill and Hillary Clinton have been unable to hide their frustration with progressives’ retreat into an alternate reality, one in which

06/12/2024

Because identity itself is not a choice. And if Jews don’t demand the space to defend their core Zionist identity in public discourse, we will find that choice has been made for us.

Over the past year, American Jews have become less safe, have felt less safe, and have been making individual and group efforts to be safer. But who exactly is doing

06/12/2024

Whose Banana Republic Is This Anyway?

Today we marvel at the liberal habit of protecting democracy with...banana republicanism. Fearing Donald Trump's revenge, the Biden administration is mulling preemptive pardons, and legacy media is normalizing the idea.

06/12/2024

The fortunes of the Democratic Party will not depend entirely on the behavior of Democrats. If Trump’s new presidency proves successful, the party’s journey further left will only hasten the ideological and partisan realignment we now see in chalk outline.

The rejection of the Biden-Harris team in the 2024 election is so easy to explain that it makes every thumb-sucking think piece, every statistical-regression analysis, and all efforts at national

06/12/2024

Today we marvel at the liberal habit of protecting democracy with…banana republicanism. Fearing Donald Trump’s revenge, the Biden administration is mulling preemptive pardons. Plus we discuss why the left can never have their own Joe Rogan.

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