Ruth R. Wisse

October 14, 2019
What Saul Bellow Saw
In May 1949, a year after the establishment of the state of Israel, the American Jewish literary critic Leslie Fiedler published in Commentary an essay about the...
September 23, 2019
Irving Kristol, Jewish Realist
What does it mean to think for oneself? Isaac Newton is famously pictured under a tree, the notion of gravity having occurred to him by the fall of an apple "as he sat in...