The New Republic

Beyond the Conceivable: Studies on Germany, Nazism, and the Holocaust by Dan Diner (University of California, 286 pp., $45) READ MORE >>

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Messianism, Zionism, and Jewish Religious Radicalism By Aviezer Ravitzky. Translated by Michael Swirsky and Jonathan Chipman (University of Chicago Press, 303 pp., $17.95) READ MORE >>

Clean Hands. In the course of many centuries, there were many crimes that Jews did not commit, but this was not least because they lacked the power to commit them. READ MORE >>

The Transformation of American Law, 1870-1960 by Morton J. Horwitz (Oxford University Press, 361 pp., $30)   READ MORE >>

If Patrick Buchanan is anything, one might think, he's a good Catholic. Unlike other miscreant politicians (Mario Cuomo, for example), he's clearly true to the faith, loyal to the authority of the Church. Buchanan, like the Jesuit teachers of his youth, is often portrayed by the secular media as one of "the pope's Marines," fearlessly vying for the Church Militant against its foes. The man who has been quick to accuse other Catholics of straying from the faith is presented as beyond theological reproach. READ MORE >>

On Reading the Constitution By Laurence H. Tribe and Michael C. Dorf (Harvard University Press, 144 pp., $18.95) READ MORE >>

Tegucigalpa, Honduras READ MORE >>

A Journey Through Afghanistan: A Memorial by David Chaffetz (Regnery Gateway; $12.95) The Struggle for Afghanistan by Nancy Peabody Newell and Richard Newell (Cornell University Press; $14.95) Afghanistan by Louis Dupree (Princeton University Press; $9.95, paper) READ MORE >>

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