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 »

Europe is the cradle of American civilization and the source of our language and politics. Many of our greatest statesmen have played out their foreign policies there”from our war for independence to the world wars in this century. Even in the last year of the millennium, American troops were . . . . 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 »