| The Continuing Crisis | 4 |
| Correspondence | 5 |
| Editorials/The Spotswoodian Pronunciamento/East German Jockettes | 6 |
| Tyrrell, R. Emmett Jr. | |
| Capitol Ideas / The Ad Hoc Hike | 7 |
| Bethell, Tom | |
| George Will and the Contemporary Political Conversation | 10 |
| Sobran, Joseph | |
| Gutter Rousseauists | 15 |
| Miller, Stephen | |
| The State of America's Newspapers | 17 |
| Stevenson, Matthew | |
| What the Scribes Are Saying About Ronald Reagan | 22 |
| O'Lessker, Karl | |
| The Campus / Ralph Nader's Fifth Column | 27 |
| Ingraham, Laura | |
| Among the Intellectualoids/Grandpa Spock's Children | 28 |
| Tedeschi, Mary | |
| Presswatch / Access | 30 |
| Barnes, Fred | |
| Politique Internationale / Armed Neutrality | 32 |
| Taki | |
| Overdrive | 33 |
| Buckley, William F. Jr. | |
| A Colder Eye | 34 |
| Kenner, Hugh | |
| The Manhattan Gambit/'Ludes | 36 |
| Stein, Benjamin J. | |
| KGB Today | 38 |
| Barron, John | |
| Notes of a Revolutionary | 39 |
| Amalrik, Andrei | |
| Spectator's Journal / The Year of the Monarchist | 40 |
| Jamieson, T. John | |
| Current Wisdom | 42 |
| Jackasses, Assorted |
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