| The Continuing Crisis | 6 | 
| Correspondence | 7 | 
| Editorials/The Left Unscathed/Jesse Steals the Show | 8 | 
| Tyrrell, R. Emmett Jr. | |
| Capitol Ideas/The Giant Rat of Kenya | 9 | 
| Bethell, Tom | |
| Creeping Capitalism in Soviet Russia | 12 | 
| Young, Cathy | |
| Conference Hopping in the Evil Empire | 16 | 
| Strmecki, Marin | |
| Should We Help Gorbachev? | 18 | 
| Nixon, Richard | |
| Pishposh from the 1980s | 22 | 
| Fumento, Michael & Pietrzyk, Mark | |
| Spectator's Journal/The Mandela Dilemma | 24 | 
| Morrison, Micah | |
| Presswatch/On the Record | 26 | 
| Eastland, Terry | |
| Among the Intellectualoids/Zoo Story | 28 | 
| Queenan, Joe | |
| The Talkies/Ego Trips | 29 | 
| Bawer, Bruce | |
| The Great American Saloon Series/When Irish Guys Are Slinging | 31 | 
| Mysak, Joe | |
| Hemingway in Love and War | 32 | 
| Villard, Henry Serrano & Nagel, James | |
| The Diary of H. L. Mencken | 34 | 
| Fecher, Charles A. | |
| Ghosts on the Roof | 36 | 
| Teachout, Terry | |
| Vladimir Nabokov | 38 | 
| Bruccoli, Dmitri Nabokov and Matthew J. | |
| Straight Shooting | 39 | 
| Silber, John | |
| Current Wisdom | 43 | 
| Jackasses, Assorted | 
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