Gary Rosen

The Vanishing American Jew: in Search of Jewish Identity for the Next Century by Alan M. Dershowitz Little, Brown, 395 pages, $24.95 In Chutzpah, his 1991 best-seller, Alan Dershowitz made the wildly implausible claim that American Jews still don’t feel fully at home in this country and, as a . . . . Continue Reading »

The Sacred Fire of Liberty: James Madison and the Founding of the Federal Republic by lance banning cornell university press, 543 pages, $35 For students of the early American republic, James Madison has long been something of a riddle. No one disputes, of course, his vital contributions to the . . . . Continue Reading »

Jihad vs. McWorld: How the World Is Both Falling Apart and Coming Together” And What This Means for Democracy By Benjamin R. Barber Times Books, 416 pages, $25 Benjamin Barber, the director of the Walt Whitman Center for the Culture and Politics of Democracy at Rutgers University, is . . . . Continue Reading »