| The Continuing Crisis | 2 |
| Editorial / Ladies and Gentlemen, My Candidate | 4 |
| Tyrrell, R. Emmett Jr. | |
| Special Editorial / Defend America Now | 5 |
| Capitol Ideas / Counter-intelligence at the Times | 6 |
| Bethell, Tom | |
| The No-Nuke Wind Ensemble | 7 |
| Shattan, Joseph | |
| Jimmy's Geography Lesson | 12 |
| Adelman, Kenneth L. | |
| The Imperial Candidacy | 14 |
| Bakshian, Aram Jr. | |
| Le Carre's People | 17 |
| O'Lessker, Karl | |
| How to Run a Filthy Campaign | 19 |
| Machiavelli, Niccolo | |
| The Talk of the Town | 22 |
| Nollson, John | |
| Presswatch | 23 |
| Ledeen, Michael | |
| Russia and the United States | 26 |
| Sivachev, Nikolai V. & Yakovlev, Nikolai N. | |
| Familiar Territory: Observations on American Life | 30 |
| Epstein, Joseph | |
| Who Gets Ahead?: The Determinates of Economic Success in America | 31 |
| Jencks, Christopher | |
| With No Apologies: The Personal and Political Memoirs of United States Senator Barry M. Goldwater | 32 |
| Goldwater, Barry M. | |
| The Alcoholic Republic: An American Tradition | 34 |
| Rorabaugh, W.J. | |
| Giving Good Weight | 35 |
| McPhee, John | |
| Correspondence | 37 |
| Current Wisdom | 38 |
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