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Vol. 010 Issue 001 (October 1 1976)
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The Continuing Crisis
THE C O N T I N U I N G CRISIS ý82 August passes, and those biithe spirits who were denied tl~e swell spectacle of another McOovern candidacy are beginning to perk up, for now there sprouts in...
Editorial
Tyrrell, R. Emmett Jr.
EDITORIAL by R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. If you follow the gutters of New York's Fifth Avenue to the south, past the fashionable shops, past Saint Patrick's Cathedral, down past the old...
Socialism: An Obituary for an Idea
Kristol, Irving
THE ALTERNATIVE: AN AMERICAN SPECTATOR VOLUME TEN, NUMBER ONE / OCTOBER 1976 Irving Kristol Socialism: An Obituary for an Idea The dead idea of sodalism is putrifying both the world's mind...
Shine On, Sun Myung Moon
Duggan, Joseph P.
powerful and ubiquitous bureaucracy--though that is how socialists and neo-socialists prefer to interpret it. Practically all of the truly popular and widespread support for a "welfare...
An Open Letter to Spiro Agnew-Wherever You Are
Gold, Vic
Vic Gold An Open Letter to Spiro Agnew--Wherever You Are Has some malicious blatherer usurped the name of Spiro Agnew? The former Vice President was always a strong supporter of Israel, but...
The Business of America is Honest Competition
Simon, William E.
"Mr. Agnew," I repeat, "will tell the full story of why he resigned in time." "But why not now? If he isn't interested in answering questions about his own integrity, why should anybody...
The Great American Birthday Party
Adams, James Ring; Adams, Laurel Ann
the "ethical blindness" of some American corporations and called for "strong and specific measures" to strengthen and cleanse the private sector from within. Irving Shapiro, chairman of the board...
The Great American Saloon Series
O'Lessker, Jr.R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr., Karl; Coyne, John R. Jr.
THE GREAT AMERICAN SALOON SERIES as R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. f Karl O'Lessker I John R. Coyne, Jr. A Symposium on Beers The "Confessions of a Beer Snob, " by Aram Bakshian, Jr., published in our...
Bigotry in the Press: The Example of Newsweek
Hitchcock, James
.]ame'.s Hitchcock Bigotry in The Press: The Example of Newsweek For the last eight years, Newsweek has taken every possible opportunity to disparage Catholic institutions and--under the...
Thwarting Terrorism
Conquest, Robert
Robert Conquest Thwarting Terrorism International terromsm has emerged hi its full odious degeneracy. To wipe it out, we need a policy of ruthless moderation. The Israeli operation at Entebbe...
The Unseen Revolution
Meyerson, Adam
virtually all Western representanves)--but it can be no more than a hope. The encouraging noises made at the recent EEC meeting and elsewhere may lead to something. At any rate, the new...
Me and Ralph
Bethell, Tom
would buy. Perhaps this was appropriate, for it was the excessive wage and pension demands of municipal unions that led to much of the city's financial chicanery. But there were good reasons why...
The Last European tVar
Kesler, Charles R.
BOOK REVIEW The Last European War by John Lukacs / Anchor Press-Doubleday / $15 Charles R. Kesler In 1939 the Germans smashed into Poland, to the outrage of every civilized European, and the...
The Nation's Pulse
Rusthoven, PeterJ.
no longer described European politics, for the principal political struggle had ceased to be between Right and Left. The political battles before 1941, on the contrary, were fought between two...
The Chronicles of Bustos Domecq
Crawford, Alan
I believe it is no exaggeration to state that the next quarter-century may well determine whether this nation in fact survives; yet it was Reagan alone, speaking just a few moments after...
Among the Intellectualoids
Somers, Paul P. Jr.
AMONG THE INTELLECTUALOIDS by Paul P. Somers, Jr. Yes, Virginia, There is a Gene McCarthy Of all the words written about Eugene McCarthy, the most remembered are those penned by an editorial...
In Our Time
Gavin, William F.
She is against them. Apparently she feels that women should have as little to do with men as with an)., other carcinogenic substance. Madame Abzug is one of those feminists whose apparent...
A Voice from the Chorus
Pilon, Juliana G.
understanding him or who want him to fit into some category. He survived the praise of Dwight Eisenhower, the fatuous inanities of Sevareid, the adulation of conservatives who think that his...
Correspondence
C 0 R R E S P 0 N D E N C E To the Editor: It is not my purpose here to comment on the merits or demerits of Karl O'Lessker's review of George Nash's book, The Conservative Intellectual...
Wisdom
Jackasses, Assorted
- C U R R E N T W I S D 0 M Washington Post Due process as practiced in the People's Republic of China: Workers of a factory manufacturing electrical apparatus put up the posters in defense...
Index for Volume Nine, 1975-76
THE ALTERNATIVE" AN AMERICAN SPECTATOR ludex for Volume Nine 1975-1976 The Index includes all articles published in The Alternative from October 1975 through August/ September 1976. In the...
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