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Vol. 008 Issue 004 (January 1 1975)
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The Continuing Crisis
"The Continuing Crisis" FOR THE LAST four weeks the American language has taken the most dreadful thumping visited upon it in years as thousands of dirty-necked politicians twisted, stretched, and stomped it in their...
Test of Loyalty
Tyrrell, R. Emmett Jr.
"Test of Loyalty" FOR THE SERIOUS READER will prove incomprehensible; nonetheless I recommend it—I recommend it as an artifact of the age. The book is incomprehensible because Peter Schrag, though...
The American Indian as Victim
Sheehan, Bernard W.
"The American Indian as Victim" To HEAR MANY historians tell it, the American story has been one long parade of unrelieved suffering. Victims abound: indentured servants, convicts, antinomian dissenters, Quakers, black slaves,...
Fulbright: Thirty Years of Sagacity
Howe, Neil; Bullert, Gary
"Fulbright: Thirty Years of Sagacity" life, and, of course, it was critical for any dealings with the white man's government. The tribe served the white man's purposes. Government agents went to those they supposed to be the tribal...
Why Britain Is So Left-Wing
Elst, Philip Vander
"Why Britain Is So Left-Wing" BRITAIN HAS BEEN RULED by Conservative governments during roughly three quarters of the last forty years, yet puzzlingly enough, she begins more and more to resemble the prototype Socialist State....
Ms. Mitty's New American Dream
Rachner, Jane
"Ms. Mitty's New American Dream" IMITATION, the sincerest form of flattery, may also be the subtlest form of treachery. When used by the Women's Movement at least, it turns out that way. The Movement offers a new American Dream not...
The Public Policy
Rusthoven, Peter J.
"The Public Policy" Racing With the Left to Armageddon WHEN BARRY GOLDWATER ran against Lyndon Johnson for the Presidency in 1964, the Democrats decided to capitalize on the Republican nominee's opposition to the...
Sentenced to Life
McTiernan, Robert
"Sentenced to Life" JOHN ROCHE'S new book is a collection of essays on "politics, education, and law," three fields in which he has had distinguished careers. Roche, a former chairman of the Americans for Democratic...
The Failure of Illiberalism
Gottfried, Paul
"The Failure of Illiberalism" SINCE THE 1930S, the study of German history in America has been dominated by a number of historians whose shared assumptions have not yet been critically examined. The scholars I refer to are the...
The Great American Saloon Series
Bakshian, Aram
"The Great American Saloon Series" Confessions of a Cigar Snob Author's note: Since the Great American Saloon Series has run dry due to the milksop nature of most Alternative contributors, a few nonsaloon pieces on pleasant...
Letter From a Whig
Slemp, C. Bascom
"Letter From a Whig" Home for Re-Election (Washington)—CONGRESS WAS finally able to recess for the November elections on October 17, giving our national legislators precious little time to hit the campaign trail back...
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy
Stein, Benjamin
"Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy" There are few cocoons so warm as a good spy story. You can crawl inside the twists and turns, the code names, the treachery and heroics; and the real world, with its real treachery and heroics, its...
WIN(D)
Stearns, Robert
"WIN(D)" ENTREPRENEURS in the lapel-pin industry regard the 'Whip Inflation Now" campaign akin to the Second Coming. All Lapel-pin manufacturers report a marked drop in third quarter sales—a slump that...
The Imperial Republic
Etzold, Thomas
"The Imperial Republic" AT FIRST GLANCE, Raymond Aron's latest book would seem to have everything going for it. Internationally renowned scholar-author, timely subject, novel treatment—all seem guarantors of surefire...
The Nation's Pulse
Heywood, Alton
"The Nation's Pulse" Politics of Conciliation THE CENTRAL QUESTION in Washington these days is whether Gerald Ford can harness the Presidency. His failure to do so thus far is, given his ascendancy by chance and the...
Beethoven Emperor
Somers, Al
"Beethoven Emperor" BEETHOVEN WAS NEVER wholly pleased with his piano concertos. The reason is not clear—perhaps it was the shadow of the Mozart concertos which immediately preceded his own. But for whatever reason,...
The Western Marxists
Baras, Victor
THE WESTERN MARXISTS are bad Marxists or non-Marxists or anti-Marxists. Mr. McInnes is certainly no Marxist, but he takes Marx seriously—more seriously than many Western Marxists. To paraphrase...
Brudnoy's Film Index
Brudnoy, David
"Brudnoy's Film Index" The Abdication: Why (maybe) Sweden's Queen Christina left her throne in 1654 to find happiness as a Catholic chasing after the Vatican cardinals. Liv Ullmann and Peter Finch, back from that Lost...
The Talkies
Stein, Benjamin
"The Talkies" the general reader will find neither a readily accessible exposition of their doctrines nor any reason to seek to understand them more fully. According to Mr. McInnes, two developments...
The Bootblack Stand
Plunkitt, George Washington
"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 New Jersey. Dr....
Current Wisdom
Jackasses, Assorted
"Current Wisdom" POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY: A few philosophical observations roll from the well-greased tongue of Valery Giscard d'Estaing, the French Kennedy: Pressed to define his concept of a European community, he...
Correspondence
"Correspondence" THOSE LINES in front of the White House these days aren't made up of tourists, but of former Republican Congressmen looking to their old buddy from Grand Rapids for work. Most of them consider...
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