| The Continuing Crisis | 6 |
| Correspondence | 7 |
| Editorials/William J. Casey, RIP/Maggie Will Win | 8 |
| Tyrrell, R. Emmett Jr. | |
| Capitol Ideas/Chumps and Charleys | 9 |
| Bethell, Tom | |
| Constitutional Contras | 13 |
| Rabkin, Jeremy | |
| When Ivan Comes Marching Home | 15 |
| Nahaylo, Bohdan | |
| The Khmer Rouge File | 18 |
| Puddington, Arch | |
| Star Wars and the Military | 21 |
| Wallop, Malcolm | |
| Eminentoes/Russell Baker's Gentle Reign | 24 |
| Kaplan, Howard | |
| Presswatch/Exposing a Disaster | 27 |
| Ledeen, Michael | |
| American Document/Right Anger | 29 |
| Courter, Jim | |
| The Nation's Pulse/Outlaw Porn | 30 |
| Haag, Ernest van den | |
| On Stage/Dangerous Liaisons | 33 |
| Bawer, Bruce | |
| European Document/Secrets of the Warsaw Pact | 35 |
| McGurn, William | |
| How I Grew | 36 |
| McCarthy, Mary | |
| Crisis and Leviathan | 38 |
| Higgs, Robert | |
| National Geographic | 40 |
| Abramson, Howard S. | |
| The Enigma of Arrival | 41 |
| Naipaul, V. S. | |
| Cause at Heart | 42 |
| Scales, Junius | |
| Manhattan '45 | 45 |
| Morris, Jan | |
| The Golden Gate Spectator/A Bridge Too Far | 49 |
| Ferguson, Andrew | |
| Current Wisdom | 51 |
| Jackasses, Assorted |
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