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"Kissinger (Walter Isaacson)" until too late, and few ever know where their money is until the Savings and Loan system collapses." But he promptly lapses into sterile cynicism again, funny but wrong-headed: "Those interested...

Desperado Democrats and the Sick Offense (July 1991)

George Szamuely DESPERADO DEMOCRATS AND THE SICK OFFENSE Gary Sick's hallucinatory theory—brought to you by the New York Times—links Jimmy Carter's defeat in 1980 to Republican conspiring with...

Germany Neither East Nor West (March 1991)

George Szamuely GERMANY NEITHER EAST NOR WEST Reunification has left the Germans crabby, cowardly, and conveniently anti-Communist. Berlin Since last summer, the world media have been...

Kevin Phillips Turns the Screws on Conservatives (September 1990)

THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR VOL. 23, NO. 9 / SEPTEMBER 1990 George Szamuely KEVIN PHILLIPS TURNS THE SCREWS ON CONSERVATIVES How the resentful architect of the GOP's "Southern strategy" became...

Command of the Seas, by John F Lehman, Jr. (June 1989)

T n the successful 1987 movie No 1 Way Out the villain is the defense secretary and the good guy is the director of central intelligence. This reflects current attitudes. Hollywood producers know...

Asian Document/The Brits Boot Hong Kong (November 1988)

ASIAN DOCUMENT THE BRITS BOOT HONG KONG n the morning of July 1, 1997 some 6 million people will awaken to find themselves under the rule of Communist party secretaries, Communist...

Spycatcher, by Peter Wright (March 1988)

T he story of the British govern- 1 ment's unsuccessful attempt in the Australian courts to prevent the publication of Spycatcher has been told and retold in tedious detail. Little attention,...

Szasz, Thomas S.

Szulc, Tad