Midge Decter was a prominent neoconservative writer, editor, and intellectual who played a significant role in American conservative thought from the 1970s onward. She served as an editor at Harper's and Basic Books and was a founding board member of the Heritage Foundation. She contributed essays and cultural commentary to The Weekly Standard spanning more than two decades.
COULD THERE BE a more persistent biographer than Nancy Milford? It has been nearly thirty years since she first approached the dragon who stands guard over the memory of Edna St. Vincent Millay—that is, the poet’s younger sister Norma—and asked her to hand over the treasure left in her keeping: the…
Jervis Anderson
Of the making of books about the lives and loves of the 42nd president of the United States and his first lady there seems to be no end. Why this should be the case is not quite so easy to answer as some might think. True, Clinton's presidency has been dogged by scandal -- sexual, financial, and…
The phenomenon of black anti-Semitism has for some years now been widely spoken of as "the problem" of blackJewish relations. That is a rhetorical diversion of the kind most commonly employed by liberals when they are referring to certain kinds of unpleasant behavior on the part of blacks in order…
In the late 70s I was working as an editor in a publishing house whose special claim to fame was that it made serious profit from serious books.