| The Continuing Crisis | 2 |
| Editorial / The Worst Book of the Year | 4 |
| Tyrrell, R.Emmett Jr. | |
| Capitol Ideas / Easy Money-And Hard | 5 |
| Bethell, Tom | |
| Kissinger's Creation | 7 |
| Gershman, Carl | |
| Low Life & High Hack | 13 |
| Griffin, Bryan F. | |
| The KGB Radio Hour | 19 |
| Ledeen, Michael | |
| China: The Generation in the Wings | 21 |
| Lee, Miriam London, Ta-ling & London, Ivan D. | |
| The Talkies / Notes on the Hollywood Left | 26 |
| Podhoretz, John | |
| Annals of an Abiding Liberal | 27 |
| Minogue, Kenneth | |
| The Fourth Man: The Definitive Account of Kim Philby, Guy Burgess, and Donald Maclean and Who Recruited Them to Spy for Russia | 30 |
| Muggeridge, Malcolm | |
| A Dream of Greatness: The American People, 1945-1963 | 33 |
| Hamby, Alonzo L. | |
| Capitalism: Sources of Hostility, edited by Ernest van den Haag, and An American Renaissance: A Strategy for the 1980's, byJackKemp | 34 |
| Goldberg, Steven | |
| Correspondence | 36 |
| Current Wisdom | 37 |
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