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IssueVol. 006 Issue 006 (March 1 1973)
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Paid articleThe Continuing Crisis
The Continuing Crisis • As America enters upon the second four years of the Nixonian Era, what Irving Howe has recognized as a new "social meanness" seems to be stealing across the land, and...
Paid articleEditorial
Tyrrell, R. Emmett Jr.
Editorial Toward Democratic Tribalism I suspect that there prowls through every society substantial congeries of public-spirited persons whose animating urge is to lower everyone to their own...
Paid articleThe Great American Column
Rosenblatt, Roger
Roger Rosenblatt The Great American Column Nostalgia as One of the Fine Arts One sure sign that a cultural idea has become a national craze is when people begin to make money off of it. We knew...
Paid articleGermany Between Liberalism and Communism
Regnery, Henry
Henry Regnery Germany Between Liberalism and Communism In 1945, shortly after the war in Europe had finally come to an end, a book appeared with the provocative title The German Talks Back. It...
Paid articleContributors
Contributors Taylor Alderman is a professor of English at Youngstown State University in Ohio; he is also one of the editors of the periodical Hemingway Notes ... James Grant is on the staff of the...
Paid articleThe Passing of a Political Edsel
Will, George
George Will The Passing of a Political Edsel The following speech by George Will was given at Michigan State University in East Lansing exactly one week after the 72 presidential election. The...
Paid articleOn Ms. Muffet
Rogers, Tommy W
On Ms. Muffet Little Miss Muffet Sat on a tuffet, Eating her curds and whey ... Those afflicted with in-group Americanism feel that Little Miss Muffet was frightened away because a spider sat...
Paid articleThe Numbers Racket on Campus
Seabury, Paul
An Interview Paul Seabury: The Numbers Racket on Campus Paul Seabury is a professor of political science at the University of California at Berkeley. Within the last year or two, he has become...
Paid articleThe Progress of a Bad Idea
Howe, Neil
Neil Howe The Progress of a Bad Idea All of the letters reprinted in this article are authentic. Most of these were made available through the generous cooperation of the University Centers for...
Paid articleThe Public Discourse
Weaver, Paul H.
Paul H. Weaver The Public Discourse The Importance of Lyndon Johnson Americans have always been ambivalent about their political leaders. Privately, most of us have strong personal feelings of...
Paid articleRacial Segregation and the Northern University
Swan, George
George Swan Racial Segregation and the Northern University DeFunis v. Odegaard is on appeal before the Washington Supreme Court. The case was argued on May 15, 1972, and according to Assistant...
Paid articleThe Bootblack Stand: Letters to Plunkitt from Henry Kissinger and Edward Kennedy
The Bootblack Stand Dr. George Washington Plunkitt, our prize-winning political analyst, is celebrating the publication of his new book, which is now available at avant-garde bookstores throughout...
Paid articleFields for President
Tyrrell, R. Emmett Jr.
Fields for President by W. C. Fields Dodd, Mead, $5.95 As a serious enterprise, book reviewing in the United States survives in about the same condition as organized religion- though its...
Paid articleThe Nick Adams Stories
Alderman, Taylor
Book Review The Nick Adams Stories by Ernest Hemingway preface by Philip Young Charles Scribner's Sons, $7.95 In this volume are assembled Ernest Hemingway's twenty-five short stories, sketches,...
Paid articleThe Superfluous Anarchist
Grant, James
Book Review The Superfluous Anarchist by Michael Wreszin Brown University Press, $8.50 Of Albert Jay Nock's ideas it may justly be said that the statement almost always survived the...
Paid articleCorrespondence: Letters from Nottingham, Lockwood, and Salonen/Baicich/Font
Correspondence To the Editor: Roger Rosenblatt, take heart! Due to the good wishes of my father, who gave me a gift subscription so I could see how the other half writes. The Alternative now has...
Paid articleCurrent Wisdom
Jackasses, Assorted
"Whom the gods destroy they first make mad"- Euripides Current Wisdom THE SAINTED MARK ESSEX Pity the unfortunate black murderer of eight white citizens in New Orleans. He was the victim of an...
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