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THIS ARTICLE DISCUSSES THE INFLUENCE OF AMERICANIZED ENGLISH AND WESTERN PRODUCTS IN POST-COLD WAR RUSSIA. THE U.S. IS ALMOST EXCLUSIVELY EXPORTING IMAGES OF PRIVATE GAIN AND MATERIAL SATISFACTIONS RATHER THAN COLLECTIVE BONDS AND DEMOCRATIC RESPONSIBILITIES.

Considers the intellectual history of the journal Commentary in light of its 50th anniversary. Only 8 of the 72 writers asked to participate in a symposium for its Nov 1996 special anniversary issue could not be classified as conservatives. This ideological uniformity is lamented as a consequence of the vitriolic polemics launched against the New Left by editor Norman Podhoretz in the 1960s & 1970s, & the rise of Reaganism during the 1980s. A restoration of something like the old Commentary is judged as unlikely given the erosion of a coherent extraacademic intellectual community of readers & writers. It is concluded that the journal should discontinue its anti-Left bent to seek & recognize common ground with its ideological opponents. D. M. Smith