COMMENTARY is America’s premier monthly magazine of opinion and a pivotal voice in American intellectual life. Since its inception in 1945, and increasingly after it emerged as the flagship of neoconservatism in the 1970s, the magazine has been consistently engaged with several large, interrelated questions: the fate of democracy and of democratic ideas in a world threatened by totalitarian ideologies; the state of American and Western security; the future of the Jews, Judaism, and Jewish culture in Israel, the United States, and around the world; and the preservation of high culture in an age of political correctness and the collapse of critical standards.

Many of COMMENTARY’s articles have been controversial, and more than a few have been hugely influential, touchstones for debate and discussion in universities, among policy analysts in and out of government, within the ranks of professionals and community activists of all kinds, and in circles of serious thought worldwide.

《评论》是美国首屈一指的观点月刊，也是美国知识分子生活中的关键声音。自1945年创刊以来，以及在20世纪70年代成为新保守主义的旗舰后，该杂志一直在关注几个相互关联的重大问题：在一个受到极权主义意识形态威胁的世界里，民主和民主思想的命运；美国和西方的安全状况；以色列、美国和世界各地犹太人、犹太教和犹太文化的未来；以及在政治正确和批判标准崩溃的时代保护高级文化。

COMMENTARY的许多文章都是有争议的，其中有不少文章具有巨大的影响力，是大学、政府内外的政策分析师、各种专业人士和社区活动家以及世界各地严肃思想界辩论和讨论的试金石。