A flurry of anniversaries this month is a reminder of the importance of conservative magazines and journals in American intellectual life and in our political history.
In honor of the seventieth anniversary of Commentary, the magazine has published a collection of seventy contributors writing on “What will be the condition of the Jewish community fifty years from now?” Among the many highlights: Dennis Prager painting a very pessimistic picture of the future of Jewish life; Elliott Abrams noting that by 2065 the role of the Holocaust “as a cement of the American Jewish community will have dried up”; and Naomi Schaefer Riley discussing interfaith marriage. Other contributors include Bill Kristol, Peter Berkowitz, Ruth Wisse, Garry Kasparov, Alan Dershowitz, Bret Stephens, Joe Lieberman, and Eric Cohen, and editor John Podhoretz rounds out the collection with his own fine closing piece. Although Commentary has changed a great deal since its founding, it continues to fulfill its original mission of providing readers with “informed discussion on the basic issues of our time especially as they bear on the position and future of Jews in our country and in the world scene.”
