| The Continuing Crisis | 6 |
| Correspondence | 7 |
| Editorials/After the Plague/Ghoulish Hungary | 8 |
| Jr, R Emmett Tyrrell | |
| Capitol Ideas/The Center Folds | 9 |
| Bethell, Tom | |
| Commies-Dead but Too Dumb to Lie Down | 12 |
| O'Rourke, P. J. | |
| A Bizarre Province | 16 |
| Tyrrell, R Emmett Jr. | |
| So You Want to Go to College' ? | 18 |
| A Barzun Sampler | 21 |
| Just Say No to College | 23 |
| Bakshian, Aram Jr. | |
| The Class of '96 | 24 |
| Nilson, Nina | |
| Spectator's Journal/Casey's Final Mission | 27 |
| Ledeen, Michael | |
| Coup Document/Three Days in Riga | 29 |
| Kalnins, Ojars | |
| Soviet Presswatch/Free at Last | 32 |
| Young, Cathy | |
| Ben Stein's Diary/Terminate MacGyver | 35 |
| Stein, Benjamin J. | |
| Presswatch/Anti-Borking | 37 |
| Eastland, Terry | |
| The Talkies/Who Am I? | 40 |
| Bowman, James | |
| Woodrow Wilson, by August Heckscher | 42 |
| Johnson, Paul | |
| Peter Lawford, by James Spada | 45 |
| Lord, M. G. | |
| My Favorite Summer 1956, by Mickey Mantle, and I Had a Hammer, by Henry Aaron | 46 |
| Scully, Matthew | |
| The United States of Ambition, by Alan Ehrenhalt | 47 |
| Hannaford, Peter | |
| Current Wisdom | 51 |
| Jackasses, Assorted |
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