Elliott Abrams

Mary Ann Glendon’s latest project is in its way far more ambitious than her previous books about human rights or family law, and far more difficult than her work educating tomorrow’s solons at Harvard Law School. For in A World Made New , she has set out to reclaim both Eleanor Roosevelt . . . . Continue Reading »

It is of course the case that only God knows what will happen in the next century and the next millennium. But we human beings are created with an irrepressible disposition toward the future, as well as a capacity to recall the past. In the last year we published a “millennium series” of . . . . Continue Reading »

Religion and State in the American Jewish Experience Edited by Jonathan D. Sarna and David G. Dalin University of Notre Dame Press, 368 pages, $40 In 1813, the trustees of Shearith Israel Congregation in New York City joined a heated debate over aid to private schools. They petitioned the state . . . . Continue Reading »