Joshua Muravchik |  Publications

• The Next Founders: Voices of Democracy in the Middle East. (Encounter Books, 2009).

• The Future of the United Nations: Understanding the Past to Chart a Way Forward. (The AEI Press, 2005).

• Covering the Intifada: How the Media Reported on the Palestinian Uprising. (Washington Institute for Near East Policy, 2003).

• Heaven on Earth: The Rise and Fall of Socialism. (San Francisco: Encounter Books, 2002).

• The Imperative of American Leadership: A Challenge to Neo-Isolationism. (The AEI Press, 1996).

• Exporting Democracy. (The AEI Press, 1991) (paperback, 1992).

• News Coverage of the Sandinista Revolution.  (University Press of America, 1988).

• The Uncertain Crusade: Jimmy Carter and the Dilemmas of Human Rights Policy.  (Hamilton Press, 1986) (paperback, 1988).

Monographs

• Perceptions of Israel in the American Media. (American Jewish Committee, 1985).

• The Senate and National Security, Washington Paper #80, (Sage, 1980).

Reports

• Voting Patterns In The United Nations, Prepared for the Council on Foreign Relations / Freedom House Task Force on Enhancing U.S. Leadership at the United Nations, June 2002.

Anthologies

• Guest Editor, “Democratic Transformation in Hungary,” World Affairs, special issue, Winter 1990.

• Editor, “Solidarity: A Documentary History,” World Affairs, special issue, Summer 1982.

Articles

• “For Radical Islam, the End Begins,” Washington Post (Outlook), June 28, 2009.

• “The Abandonment of Democracy,” Commentary, July/August 2009

• “Twilight of the Ayatollahs,” Newsweek Polska, June 21, 2009.

• “Junk Poll Boosted Tehran Tyrants,” New York Post, June 19, 2009.

• “Last Chance To Avoid Conflict With The US,” The Majalla, June 11, 2009.

• “Islamists Lose Ground in the Middle East,” Wall Street Journal, June 1, 2009.

• “Obama's Folly: Courting Our Enemies and Criticizing Ourselves,” World Politics Review, May 5, 2009.

• “Prospects for Iran-US Talks: Diplomacy will not yield results,” bitterlemons-internation.org, Dec. 04, 2008.

• “Obama’s Leftism,” Commentary, October 2008.

• “Two Cheers: Second Thoughts on the Bush Doctrine.” World Affairs, Fall, 2008.

• “Obama’s Talking Cure.” Commentary, September 2008.

• “The Future is Neocon.” The National Interest, September 2008.

• “For centuries, Poland has been a home to the Jews,” Polska 22 March 2008.

• “In Search of Moderate Muslims,” Commentary, February 2008 (with Charlie Szrom).

• “Human Rights: After Reforms, Do Offenders Still Get a Free Pass?” The InterDependent, Winter 2007/2008.

• "Iranian Bomb 'intolerable'" USA Today, November 20, 2007.

• “Preemption, Israeli Style,” Los Angeles Times, October 14, 2007.

• “The Past, Present, and Future of Neoconservatism,” Commentary, October 1, 2007.

• “Egyptian Exile,” Wall Street Journal, September 24, 2007.

• “Na bojisti mezi tradicí a modernitou,” Lidove Noviny (Czech Republic), August 12, 2007.

• “The Roadblock to Arab Democracy,” Moment, August 2007.

• “Winds of War,” Wall Street Journal, June 25, 2007.

• “Pelosi’s Favorite Stalinist,” Weekly Standard, June 25, 2007.

• “My Saudi Sojourn,” Commentary, June 2007.

• “Zwyciestwo Sarkozy’ego moze zjednocyzc Zachod,” Dziennik (Poland), May 2007.

• “Beyond Reform?” Ripon Forum, April/May 2007.

• “Our Worst Ex-President,” Commentary, February 2007.

• “A Sound Strategy,” Foreign Service Journal, February 2007.

• “Saving the Neocons,” Foreign Policy, January/February 2007.

• “Bomb Iran,” LA Times, November 19, 2006.

• “Operation Comeback,” Foreign Policy, November/December 2006.

• “U.N. Redeemed,” National Review Online, October 6, 2006.

• “The Arab Temptation,” Commentary, October 2006.

• “Weakening Rights to Save Them,” LA Times, September 15, 2006.

• “Kacynski’s Visit,” Dziennik, September 17, 2006.

• “Five Years After September 11,” Lidove Nivony (Czech), September 11, 2006.

• “Human Rights Watch vs. Human Rights,” Weekly Standard, September 11, 2006.

• “Standing by Bush,” Washington Post, August 13, 2006.

• “’Disproportionate’ Criticism,” National Review Online, July 20, 2006. [Note: Article originally published in Dziennik on July 18, 2006.]

•  “A Democracy Policy in Ashes,” The Washington Post, June 27, 2006.

• “Inside the U.S.: The Foreign Policy Debate (Part Two),” Islamonline.net, May 22, 2006.

• “Qaddafi’s good friend at the UN,” Weekly Standard, May 15, 2006.

• “The Trials of Ayman Nour,” Wall Street Journal, May 8, 2006.

• “US Foreign Policy: Explaining the Debate,” Islamonline.net, April 30, 2006.

• “The US will act alone if it has to,” Bitterlemons-International.org, April 27, 2006.

• “Comrades,” Commentary, January 2006.

• “Freedom had a good year,” LA Times, December 24, 2005.

• “Jihad or Ballot-Box?” Wall Street Journal, December 13, 2005.

• “Corruption, hypocrisy will always prevail,” LA Times, November 6, 2005.

• “Defending and Advancing Freedom: A Symposium,” Commentary, November 2005.

• “Social Democrat Neocon,” Wall Street Journal, October 22, 2005.

• “The U.N.’s Terrorism Gap,” The Los Angeles Times, September 18, 2005.

•  “Plus Ça Change,” Wall Street Journal, September 12, 2005.

• “Among Arab Reformers,” Commentary, September 2005.

• “What is Solidarity to the People of Generation ’69, Neo-Conservatives, Liberal Intellectuals?’ Europa, August 31, 2005.

• “Communism,” Encyclopedia of Science, Technology and Ethics (Macmillan, August 2005).

• “Socialism,” Encyclopedia of Science, Technology and Ethics (Macmillan, August 2005).

• “In Weakness There is Strength,” Bitterlemons-International.org, June 30, 2005.

• “In Denial: Historians, Communism and Espionage,” Journal of Cold War Studies, March 9, 2005.

• “Flawed but a Landmark,” Bitterlemons-International.org, January 27, 2005.

• “The Democratic Ideal,” the Wall Street Journal, January 25, 2005.

• “The Birth Pangs of Democracy,” LA Times, January 10, 2005.

• “Why the Democrats Keep Losing,” Commentary, January 2005.

• “The Case Against the UN,” Commentary, November 2004.

• “Peace Only With US Leadership,” Apple Daily, November 11, 2004.

• “Human Rights Commission Ignores Human Rights,” Apple Daily, November 10, 2004.

• “UN Can’t Maintain Peace,” Apple Daily, November 9, 2004.

• “Never Apologize, Never Explain,” The Weekly Standard, November 1, 2004.

• “Terrorism’s Silent Partner at the U.N.,” Los Angeles Times, October 19, 2004.

• “US Winning the Ultimate Victory,” Apple Daily (Hong Kong), September 11, 2004.

• “Kerry’s Cambodia Whopper,” Washington Post, August 24, 2004.

• “In the Cold War, Kerry Froze,” Los Angeles Times, August 10, 2004.

• “Arroyo Does a Munich,” The Australian, July 22, 2004.

• “The Glass is Half-Full in Iraq,” The Australian, July 2, 2004.

• “A Leader for Perilous Times,” Los Angeles Times, May 30, 2004.

• ‘The Richard Clarke Show,’ Commentary, May 2004.

• “A Firm Message for Progress,” Israeli Policy Forum, April 28, 2004.

• “EU vs. Hamas,” National Review Online, April 27, 2004.

• “Who is to Blame for 9/11?” Welt am Sonntag, April 18, 2004.

• “An American Mission,” Bitterlemons-International, April 15, 2004.

• “Our Long September 11,” Jerusalem Post, March 18, 2004.

• “The Betrayal of Democracy,” Jerusalem Post, March 4, 2004.

• “The Mind of George Soros,” Commentary, March 2004

• “Kerry’s Inner Dove,” Washington Post, February 23, 2003.

• “Bringing Democracy to the Arab World,” Current History, January 2004.

• “Listening to Arabs,” Commentary, December 1, 2003.

• “For ‘New Europe,’ the Silent Treatment,” Washington Post, October 21, 2003.

• “Boudin vs. America: What the Weathermen Sought,” National Review Online, September 23, 2003

• “Unfair and Unbalanced: Why the Media Did a Lousy Job Covering the Intifada,” Weekly Standard, September 22, 2003.

• “Rise of neo-cons no Jewish conspiracy,” The Australian, September 15, 2003.

• “Democracy for Arabs, Too,” Washington Post, September 2, 2003.

• “The Neoconservative Cabal,” Commentary, September 2003.

• “America Loses Its Voice,” Weekly Standard, June 9, 2003.

• “The New Gloomsayers,” Commentary, June 2003.

• “The Neoconservatives Unmasked,” International Herald Tribune, May 6, 2003.

• “Postcard from the ‘New Europe,’” Commentary, April 2003.

• “A Road Map To Nowhere,” The Weekly Standard, March 24, 2003.

• “We’re Better Off Without That U.N. Resolution,” Wall Street Journal, March 18, 2003.

• “Facing Up To North Korea,” Commentary, March 2003.

• “Marquee At Last,” Wall Street Journal, January 17, 2003.

• “The Bush Manifesto,” Commentary, December 2002.

• “The European Disease,” The American Enterprise, December 2002

• “Marxism,” Foreign Policy, November-December 2002.

• “What the Americans Expect of Us,” Die Welt, October, 12, 2002.

• “New World, Old World: Friends or Not?” BBC Russian Service, online at http://www.bbc.co.uk/russian/specials/911/polemics/europe_us.shtml, September 11, 2002.

• “The Prof Who Can't Count Straight,” The Weekly Standard, August 26-September 2, 2002.

• “Racking Up Afghan Casualties,” The Wall Street Journal Europe, August 21, 2002.

• “Democracy’s Quiet Victory,” The New York Times, August 19, 2002.

• “Europe’s Foreign Policy Is Dishonest - Not America’s”, Die Welt, August 14, 2002.

• “The UN on the Loose,” Commentary, July-August 2002.

• “Marx Meets Oedipus: Where Socialism Lives On,” National Review Online, May 8, 2002

• “Hearts, Minds, and the War Against Terror,” Commentary, May 2002.

• “Socialism’s Last Stand,” Commentary, March 2002.

• “Religion vs. Socialism,” The American Enterprise, March 2002.

• “Freedom and the Arab Word,” The Weekly Standard, December 31, 2001/January 7, 2002.

• “Diplomacy for regions, the world: Henry Kissinger still advising and prescribing,” Washington Times, July 1, 2001.

• “The Truth Will Set China Free,” The Wall Street Journal, April 10, 2001.

• “Democracy: A Right of All Nations,” Issues in Global Education, The American Forum for Global Education, Issue No. 162 & 163, 2000-2001.

• “Democracy: A Right of All Nations,” Issues of Democracy. An Electronic Journal of the U.S. Department of State, Volume 5, Number 1, May 2000.  Online at: class="Hypertext"http://usinfo.state.gov/journals/itdhr/0500/ijde/ijde0500.htm.

• “Western Europe Tells the East: Keep Quiet,” The Wall Street Journal Europe, April 3, 2000.

• “Taiwan Elects the President of China,” Hong Kong Daily Apple, March 17, 2000.

• “American Power - For What?: A Symposium,” Commentary, January 2000.

• “Machines Are (Sort of) Predictable.  Man Isn’t,” The Wall Street Journal,  December 29, 1999.

• “Apply the Reagan Doctrine to Iraq,” The Wall Street Journal, November 3, 1999.

• “Unconstructive Engagement: China’s Version of Law and Order,” The Washington Times, September 16, 1999.

• “The United States- Unintentional Warrior,” The Washington Times, August 16, 1999.

• “China Should Take Note of America’s War Record,” The Australian Financial Review, June, 11, 1999.

• “U.S. Critics Caught Up In a Daze of Empire,” The Australian Financial Review, June 6, 1999.

• “The Road to Kosovo,” Commentary, June 1999.

• “How Milosevic May Save NATO,” The Wall Street Journal Europe, April 23-24, 1999.

• “Yankee, Come Here,” The Washington Times, April 13, 1999.

• “How to Wreck NATO,” Commentary, April 1999, Vol. 107 no. 4.

• “Terrorism at the Multiplex,” Commentary, January 1999, Vol. 107 no. 1.

• “Poland Ten Years Later,” The American Spectator, January 1999.

• “U.S. Dominance Not Winning Any Popularity Contests,” USA Today, October 27, 1998.

• “Nerve Gas, Lies and Videotape,” Commentary, September 1998.

• “The End of History Begins Anew,” Los Angeles Times, June 29, 1998.

• “Apply the Reagan Doctrine to Iraq,” The Wall Street Journal, November 3, 1999.

• “Fragile French Egos Give Rise to New Cold War,” USA Today, May 19, 1998.

• “Why Die for Danzig?” Commentary, October 1997.

• “A Bigger NATO?” The American Enterprise, July/August 1997.

• “Why Iran Is (Still) a Menace,” Commentary, July, 1997.  (With Jeffrey Gedmin)

• “Demjanjuk: A Summing Up,” Commentary, April 1997.

• “Ambivalent Power, Ambivalent Democracy,” Freedom Review, January/February 1997.

• “Why the Republicans Lost, and Won,” Commentary, January 1997.

• “Using Force as a Tourniquet,” The New York Times Magazine, December 15, 1996.

• “The Anti-Defense League,” Commentary, November, 1996 (With Lawrence Kaplan).

• “Carrying a Small Stick,” National Review, September 2, 1996.

• “Prioritize Our Enemies,” Los Angeles Times, August 7, 1996.

• “Means Test,” The New Republic, August 5, 1996.

• “Cambodia Journal,” The American Spectator, August 1996.

• “Resisting the Siren Call of Isolationism,” National Catholic Register, July 14, 1996.

• “Killing Foreign Policy from Both Sides,” The Washington Times, July 11, 1996.

• “What Use Is the UN?” Commentary, April 1996.

• “Affording Foreign Policy,” Foreign Affairs, March/April 1996.

• “Runaround Suharto,” The Weekly Standard, January 22, 1996.

• “Facing Up to Black Anti-Semitism,” Commentary, December 1995.

• “A Deal With the Devil Won't Stick,” Los Angeles Times, November 30, 1995.

• Contribution to “The National Prospect, A Symposium,” Commentary, November 1995.

• “Will Justice Fall Victim to Bosnian Peace?” National Catholic Register, October 15, 1995.

• “Dealing with anti-Semitism in Poland,” The Washington Times, July 20, 1995.

• “Germany and Iran,” The Washington Times, June 15, 1995.

• “Why Foreign Policy Matters,” The Washington Times, June 2, 1995 (with Adrian Karatnycky).

• “An Emerging Republican Foreign Policy?” Freedom Review, May-June, 1995.

• “Clintonism Abroad,” Commentary, February, 1995.

• “Yellow Rose,” The New Republic, December 5, 1994.

• “Push for More Democracy,” The Washington Post, November 15, 1994.

• “How the Cold War Ended,” Commentary, November, 1994.

• “To Act or Not to Act in New World Order,” National Catholic Register, August 7, 1994

• “Carter's Dictators,” The New Republic, July 11, 1994.

• “Hypocricy on Haiti,” Commentary, July, 1994.

• “Radio Free Asia, Not Trade Sanctions,” Los Angeles Times, May 11, 1994.

• “Beyond Self-Defense,” Commentary, December, 1993.

• “The Trouble With Halperin,” Forward, November 5, 1993.

• “Bosnia's Tragedy is the Shame of the West,” National Catholic Register, October 10, 1993.

• “Exporting Democracy,” Review Essay in Orbis, Fall, 1993.

• “Lament of a Clinton Supporter,” Commentary, August, 1993.

• “Why Accept the Hubris of Tyrants?” The Los Angeles Times, June 15, 1993.

• “Tune In to Democracy,” The New York Times, June 15, 1993.

• “Forsaking Bosnia, Clinton Signals U.S. Retreat,” Wall Street Journal, June 10, 1993.

• “Balance of Power in Bosnia,” The Washington Post, February 15, 1993.

• “Why the Democrats Finally Won,” Commentary, January 1993.

• “The Strange Debate Over Bosnia,” Commentary, November 1992.

• “Conservatives for Clinton,” The New Republic, November 2, 1992.

• “Losing the Peace,” Commentary, July 1992.

• “Eastern Europe’s ‘Terrible Twos,’” Journal of Democracy, January 1992.

• “MacArthur's Millions,” American Spectator, January 1992.

• “Unmet Needs Will Always Be With Us,” The Los Angeles Times, October 14, 1991.

• “The Vietnam Paradigm,” Commentary, May 1991.

• “Right to Intervene,” The Washington Post, April 23, 1991.

• “Decline Should Be So Sweet,” The Los Angeles Times, March 1, 1991.

• “Striking a Balance with Evil,” The Los Angeles Times, January 31, 1991.

• “At Last, Pax Americana,” The New York Times, January 24, 1991.

• “Patrick Buchanan and the Jews,” Commentary, January, 1991.

• “What is The New World Order?” Reason Magazine, December 12, 1990.

• “Leningrad Postcard - Postwar Blues,” The New Republic, November 5, 1990.

• “Mandela in America,” Commentary, October, 1990.

• “New Isolationism, Same Old Mistake,” New York Times, August 28, 1990.

• “Is Collective Security Just a Chimera?” Los Angeles Times, August 3, 1990.

• “Share a Vision and Break the Mold” Los Angeles Times, May 30, 1990.

• “Out of Soviet Metamorphosis, Hope for a World of Law,” The Los Angeles Times, March 11, 1990.

• “Gorbachev, the True Communist,” The American Enterprise, March-April, 1990.

• “Gorbachev's Intellectual Odyssey,” The New Republic, March 5, 1990.

• “Dictatorships and Single Standards: How Western Resolve Toppled an Evil Empire,” Crisis, February, 1990.

• “Bully a Mouse, Kiss a Dragon,” The Los Angeles Times, December 22, 1989.

• “Summit Goals:  Nicaragua's Election...,” The New York Times, November 29, 1989.

• “East Bloc: More Than Ever, A House Divided,” The Wall Street Journal, September 13, 1989.

• “A Step Solidarity Has to Take,” The New York Times, August 19, 1989.

• “Poland Speaks,” The World & I, August, 1989.

• “U.S. Political Parties Abroad,” The Washington Quarterly, Summer 1989.

• “Why the Democrats Lost Again,” Commentary, February 1989.

• “Poland's Regime Sends in the Goons,” The New York Times, Monday, December 26, 1988.

• “The Sound of Free Poland,” The American Spectator, November, 1988.

• “They've Thrown in the Towel,” The Washington Times, Wednesday, August 10, 1988.

• “Glasnost, the KGB, and the Nation,” Commentary, June 1988.

• “How I Got Smart: A Young Marxist Throws in the Towel,” Crisis, June 1988.

• “How Not to Drive a Hard Bargain on Nicaragua,” The Wall Street Journal, March 23, 1988.

• “If aid fails...and impugners prevail,” The Washington Times, January 28, 1988.

• “Albert Gore: A Dove in Hawk's Feathers,” Wall Street Journal,  January 12, 1988.

• “A Hawk Praises the Treaty,” New York Times, December 9, 1987.

• “Astonishing Moments: Distinguished observers select the single most astonishing development of the last twenty years,” American Spectator, December, 1987.

• “What is to be Done?” The New Republic, November 30, 1987.

• “Arias Plan a Self Negating Prophecy,” The Washington Times, August 5, 1987.

• “Culture and Development,” The National Interest, Summer, 1987.

• “Maximum Feasible Containment,” The New Republic, June 1, 1987.

• “Democrats Offer No Good Alternative to the Reagan Doctrine,” Wall Street Journal, January 29, 1987.

• “The Nicaragua Debate,” Foreign Affairs, Winter 1986/87.

• “Reagan Dooms His Foreign Policy,” New York Times, December 7, 1986.

• “Sandinista Anti-Semitism and Its Apologists,” Commentary, September, 1986 (with Susan Alberts and Antony Korenstein).

• “Terror in the Townships: A South Africa Update,” American Spectator, July 1986.

• “We Must Ignore Protests and Defend Our Citizens,” Los Angeles Times, April 17, 1986.

• “Is Israel Good for America?” National Review, March 28, 1986.

• “Nicaragua's Slow March to Communism,” This World, Winter 1986.

• “We're All Moderates Now,” American Spectator, February, 1986.

• “Reagan's Carter Policy on Handling Terrorism,” New York Times, January 15, 1986.

• “Arresting Arafat,” The New Republic, December 30, 1985.

• “Exporting Democracy: A Progress Report,” American Spectator, November, 1985.

• “Israel Has the Right to Fight Back,” Miami Herald, October 6, 1985.

• “The PLO's Terrorist Baggage,” The Washington Times, September 23, 1985.

• “Why it Mattered,” National Catholic Register, April 28, 1985.

• “Topple the Sandinistas,” New York Times, March 3, 1985.

• “Time for a Change at TIME,” Detroit News, February 6, 1985.

• “Why the Democrats Lost,” Commentary, January, 1985.

• “‘Communophilism’ and the Institute for Policy Studies,” World Affairs, Winter 1984-85.

• “The National Council of Churches and the U.S.S.R.,” This World, No. 9 (Fall 1984).

• “The Cruz Alternative,” The New Republic, October 8, 1984.

• “Manipulating the Miskitos,” The New Republic, August 6, 1984.

• “Endowing Democracy,” New York Times, June 18, 1984.

• “Israel and the Democratic Left,” Wall Street Journal, June 6, 1984.

• “Reagan: Human Rights With a Difference,” Los Angeles Times, May 22, 1984.

• “A King Holiday for an American Victory,” Los Angeles Times, October 14, 1983.

• “For Civil Rights, the Center May Not Hold,” Los Angeles Times, August 14, 1983.

• “Misreporting the Pulitzer Prize,” Policy Review, No. 25 (Summer 1983).

• “Pliant Protestants,” The New Republic, June 13, 1983.

• “Misreporting Lebanon,” Policy Review, No. 23 (Winter 1983).

• “The Intellectual Odyssey of Milovan Djilas,” World Affairs, Spring 1983.

• “The Perils of a Nuclear Freeze,” World Affairs, Fall 1982.

• “CBS vs. Defense,” Commentary, September,1981 (with John E. Haynes).

• “Theories of the New Class,” World Affairs, Fall 1981.

• “The Think Tank of the Left,” New York Times Magazine, April 26, 1981.

• “Expectations of SALT I; Lessons for SALT II,” World Affairs, Winter 1980-1981.

• “Policy Making in the Senate,” Washington Quarterly, Autumn 1980.

• “Turnabout in the Senate,” Commentary, November, 1980.

• “Kennedy's Foreign Policy: What the Record Shows,” Commentary, December, 1979.

• “Democrats to the Center,” The New Leader, November 24, 1975.

• “‘Balancing’ the Democrats,” The New Leader, January 20, 1975 (with Penn Kemble).

• “The Democrats Divided,” The New Leader, September 16, 1974.

• “The New Politics and the Democrats,” Commentary, December, 1972 (with Penn Kemble).   

Chapters

• Chapter 15, Anne Bayefsky ed., The UN and Beyond: United Democratic Nations (Hudson Institute, 2007)

• “The Rise and Fall of Socialism,” Richard M. Ebeling ed., Champions of Freedom: Economic Theories and Controversies (Hillsdale College Press, 2004)

• “U.S.-European Security Relations: American’s Stake in European Stability,” in European Integration and American Interests.  (Washington, D.C.: American Enterprise Institute, 1997).

• “Promoting Peace through Democracy,” in Managing Global Chaos: Sources of and Responses to International Conflict.  (Washington, D.C: United States Institute of Peace, 1996).

• “Exporting Democracy to the Arab World,” in Democracy in the Middle East:  Defining the Challenge.  (Washington, D.C.:  Washington Institute for Near East Policy, 1993).

• “A Cure Worse Than the Disease,@ and AAn Anti-Communist Manifesto,” in Second Thoughts:  Former Radicals Look Back at the Sixties. (Boston:  National Forum Foundation and Madison Books, 1989).

Book Reviews

• The myth of American exceptionalism by Godfrey Hodgson, reviewed in Commentary, April 2009.

• After Bush by Timothy Lynch and Robert S. Singh, reviewed in Commentary, November 2008.

• Freedom’s Battle: The Origins of Humanitarian Intervention by Gary Bass, reviewed in The Wall Street Journal, August 21, 2008.

• Inventing Human Rights by Lynn Hunt, reviewed in The Wall Street Journal, March 6, 2007

• The Theocons by Damon Linker, reviewed in Commentary, November 2006

• James Burnham and the Struggle for the World: A Life, by Daniel Kelly and Principles and Heresies: Frank S. Meyer and the Shaping of the American Conservative Movement by Kevin J. Smant, reviewed in Commentary, October 2002.

• It Didn’t Happen Here: Why Socialism Failed in the United States, by Seymour Martin Lipset and Gary Marks, and The Other American: The Life of Michael Harrington, by Maurice Isserman, reviewed in The Weekly Standard, Vol. 5, No. 47, August 28/September 4, 2000.

• The Faces of Janus: Marxism and Fascism in the Twentieth Century, by A. James Gregor, reviewed in The National Interest, Number 60, Summer 2000.

• Development at Freedom: Human Capability and Global Need, by Amartya Sen, reviewed in The Washington Post, Book World, Sunday, October 10, 1999

• The Wilsonian Century: U.S. Foreign Policy Since 1900, by Frank Ninkovich, reviewed in The Washington Times, Sunday, May 9, 1999.

• Max Lerner: Pilgrim in the Promised Land, by Sanford Lakoff, reviewed in The American Spectator, February 1999.

• The Commanding Heights: the Battle Between Government and the Marketplace that is Remaking the Modern World, by Daniel Yergin and Joseph Stanislaw, reviewed in The American Spectator, May, 1998.

• The Reluctant Sheriff: the United States after the Cold War by Richard Haass, reviewed in The Washington Times, August 13, 1997.

• The Coming Conflict with China by Richard Bernstein and Ross Munro, reviewed in Intellectual Capital Book Forum (www.IntellectualCapital.com), April 17, 1997.

• The Road to Hell: The Ravaging Effects of Foreign Aid and International Charity by Michael Maren, reviewed in The Washington Times, Februrary 19, 1997.

• Red Scare or Red Menace?  American Communism and Anticommunism in the Cold War Era by John  E. Haynes, The Amerasia Spy Case: Prelude to McCarthyism by Harvey Klehr and Ronald Radosh, and Not Without Honor: The History of American Anti-Communism by Richard Gid Powers, reviewed in The National Interest, Fall 1996.

• Up From Conservatism: Why the Right Is Wrong for America by Michael Lind, reviewed in Commentary, September 1996.

• Inside the Kremlin’s Cold War: From Stalin to Khrushchev by Vladislav Zubok and Constantine Pleshakov, reviewed in The Washington Times, June 9, 1996

• On the Brink: The Dramatic Saga of How the Reagan Administration Changed the Course of History and Won the Cold War by Jay Winik,reviewed in The Weekly Standard, April 1, 1996.

• At a Century’s Ending by George F. Kennan, reviewed in The Wall Street Journal, February 26, 1996.

• Telltale Hearts: The Origins and Impact of the Vietnam Antiwar Movement by Adam Garfinkle, reviewed in The Weekly Standard, November 6, 1995.

• The Strange Death of the Soviet Empire by David Pryce-Jones, reviewed in The Wall Street Journal, September 12, 1995.

• Karski:  How One Man Tried to Stop the Holocaust by E. Thomas Wood and Stanislaw M. Jankowski, reviewed in The American Spectator, April 1995.

• Poland's Jump to the Market Economy by Jeffrey Sachs, reviewed in The American Spectator, July 1994.

• Out of Control: Global Turmoil on the Eve of the 21st Century by Zbigniew Brzezinski, reviewed in Commentary, July 1993.

• The End of History and the Last Man by Francis Fukuyama, reviewed in Forward, April 24, 1992.

• Why Americans Hate Politics by E.J. Dionne, reviewed in Commentary, October 1991.

• The Hidden Nations by Nadia Diuk and Adrian Karatnycky, reviewed in the Wall Street Journal, April 19, 1991.

• Power, the Press and the Technology of Freedom: The Coming Age of ISDN by Leonard R. Sussman. (Freedom House, 1989) reviewed in Journal of Democracy, Summer 1990.

• Parting the Waters: America in King Years 1954-63 by Taylor Branch, reviewed in Commentary, April 1989.

• Stalin and the Kirov Murder by Robert Conquest, reviewed in The Washington Times, January 9, 1989.

• Covert Cadre:  Inside the Institute for Policy Studies by S. Steven Powell, reviewed in Commentary October 1988.