Into the Melting Pot
'Assimilation, American Style' by Peter Salins
By Elliot Abrams
Posted: Tuesday, April 1, 1997
Peter Salins' book is a labor of love as much as scholarship. The child of immigrants who lived the American Dream, he has watched what he calls the "sinister" development of ethnocentricity on the Left and nativism on the Right combine to threaten the American immigration/assimilation paradigm. Salins, a professor of urban affairs at Hunter College and former editor in chief of the City Journal, describes how the system is supposed to work and did work for generations of immigrants, and decries the assault that would split American society into tribes and bar additional immigration. Salins' basic argument can be set forth   [Read More]

Irreconcilable Difference
By Elliot Abrams
Posted: Monday, December 6, 1999
The delusion has taken hold in some quarters recently that deep conversations between Jewish and evangelical Christian leaders will solve the key problem that divides these two communities: evangelical efforts to convert Jews. My advice to those pursuing this dialogue: stay home.   [Read More]