How many magazines can be described as indispensable? Commentary, published by the American Jewish Committee, month after month, year after year, comes as close as any. Victor Davis Hanson wrote the current issue's feature article Our Enemies, the Saudis. Hanson is better on the war and current strategic questions than almost any other analyst.



And music criticism, whether classical, opera or jazz, American standards or musical theater. No one writing today has a breadth of knowledge and appreciative insight to surpass Terry Teachout. This issue: "Neither a demigod nor a vulgar crowd-pleaser, the maestro was just the greatest of conductors." Toscanini Lives