| The Continuing Crisis | 4 |
| Correspondence | 6 |
| Editorials/The President's Ambitions/The Big Chill | 8 |
| Tyrrell, R. Emmett Jr. | |
| Capitol Ideas/No Timing Back | 9 |
| Bethell, Tom | |
| The MX in an Age of Defense | 12 |
| Lord, Carnes | |
| Conservative's Guide to the Third World | 14 |
| Harries, Owen | |
| Stanford's Vendetta Against an Independent Mind | 16 |
| Mainland, Mary | |
| Church and State | 18 |
| Rahe, Paul A. | |
| Presswatch/A Tyranny of Experts | 24 |
| O'Sullivan, John | |
| Among the Environmentaloids/Westway Story | 27 |
| Tucker, William | |
| European Document/King Kadar | 29 |
| Kaplan, Robert D. | |
| Eminentoes/The Great White | 30 |
| Mysak, Joe | |
| Worst Book of the Year/Ferraro: My Story | 31 |
| Barnes, Fred | |
| A Matter of Principle | 33 |
| Dworkin, Ronald | |
| Vigilante | 40 |
| Tucker, William | |
| The New Direction in American Politics | 41 |
| Chubb, John E. | |
| Amusing Ourselves to Death | 42 |
| Postman, Neil | |
| A Maggot | 43 |
| Fowles, John | |
| Stanley and the Women/Russian Hide-and-Seek | 45 |
| Amis, Kingsley | |
| The Washington Spectator | 47 |
| Nathan, George Jean | |
| Current Wisdom | 48 |
| Jackasses, Assorted |
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