| The Continuing Crisis | 2 |
| Editorial I | 3 |
| Tyrrell, R. Emmett Jr. | |
| Editorial II | 3 |
| Nathan, George | |
| The Public Discourse | 4 |
| Weaver, Paul H. | |
| Memoirs of an Insane Age | 5 |
| Allison, Wick | |
| The Right Not to Vote | 6 |
| Loniello, Nicholas | |
| The Great American Column | 7 |
| Rosenblatt, Roger | |
| On "Democratic Totalitarianism" | 8 |
| Moser, Charles A. | |
| Contributors | 10 |
| Information Aspects of Alternative Economic Systems | 11 |
| Pasour, E. C. Jr. | |
| Doing Dylan is a Trip Unto Itself | 13 |
| Luce, Phillip Abbott | |
| Oh! Sex Education! | 14 |
| Raico, Ralph | |
| The Peculiar Institution | 16 |
| Reed, John Shelton | |
| Letter from a Whig | 18 |
| Slemp, C. Bascom | |
| Metaphors of Self | 19 |
| Weinblatt, Alan | |
| The Bootblack Stand: Letters to Plunkitt from Senator Tunney and George Romney | 21 |
| Lap Dogs | 22 |
| Brudnoy, David | |
| Correspondence: Letters from Enhamre, Boulware, Ward, Morrison, Mayfield, Windover, and Stanakowski | 23 |
| The Political Culture of the United States | 24 |
| Joy, Dan | |
| Current Wisdom | 26 |
| Jackasses, Assorted |
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