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Vol. 009 Issue 001 (October 1 1975)
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The Continuing Crisis
The Continuing Crisis • ^ A traditional North American August, the heat was so intense that many Americans dreamt of taking a holiday in equatorial Africa, and as the month crept on it grew...
Editorial
Tyrrell, R. Emmett Jr.
Editorial/R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. The Catastrophic Imperative • • Contemporary America works cruel and enigmatic treacheries on simple folk like me. Reality keeps changing false faces, and lo,...
Fifteen Rounds to a Zeitgeist
Gold, Vic
The Alternative • October 1975 • Volume 9, Number 1 Vic Gold Fifteen Rounds to a Zeitgeist • ********** (In Which a One Hunnert Percent American Fight Freak Self-Analyzes & Defends His...
The Nation's Pulse
Rusthoven, Peter J.
by Peter J. Rusthoven The Nation's Pulse A few weeks ago, America's Gerald Ford, the Soviet Union's Leonid Brezhnev, and the presidents, prime ministers, premiers, and/or party leaders of some...
Conservatism: A Libertarian Challenge
Efron, Edith
will hardly be in a position to criticize them as they too make adjustments and rapprochements in their relations with the East, however politically, militarily, or economically discomfitting such...
Among the Intellectualoids
Maloney, Stephen R.
Among the Intellectualoids by Stephen R. Maloney2 (One of civilized man's eternal misconceptions is that the barbarian always rides a charger and whoops for blood, a head impaled on his spear,...
Taft and the New Isolationism
McTiernan, Robert
Throat and Pink Flamingoes, Penthouse is relatively mild pornography, probably not even enough to titillate Justice Douglas. But in a world where body (matter) and sensations are all there is, we...
An Embarrassed Note from the Publisher
Kannon, Baron Von
Special Note/Baron Von Kannon An Embarrassed Note from the Publisher • • For years my association with Tyrrell has been an embarrassing one. For example, soon after The Alternative was founded we...
The Quiet Tax
Wanniski, Jude
Roosevelt explained his positions in fireside chats and tried to get the American people to go with him. Roosevelt was great manipulator, but he wasn't solely a manipulator. When Nixon went to China...
Weimar: A Cultural History
Gottfried, Paul
Congressional liberals insist on using some of that phony fiscal dividend to finance new or old spending programs that they say benefit their constituents. The more serious roadblock is that while...
The Bankers
Grant, James
Book Review/James Grant The Unbankers • The banker traditionally has led a vicarious life. Even while serving business, he has somehow stood above it. Since the Renaissance, of course, bankers...
Os Economics and Society
Sowell, Thomas
Book Review/Thomas Sowell The Intelligible World of Harry Johnson • • Books by economists on social policy must be approached with a certain caution, if not dread. On the one hand, there are the...
The Bootblack Stand
Plunkitt, George Washington
sire to save the world and partly to a desire for self-aggrandizement—a potent and often explosive combination down through the ages. Keynesian economics' sweeping array of strange new intellectual...
The Great American Saloon Series
Weisberger, Siegfried
by Siegfried Weisberger The Great American Saloon Series When I think of H.L. Mencken and reminisce about beer sessions past, I cannot forget the setting for such occasions. Mencken loved the...
The Talkies
Asahina, Robert
by Robert Asahina j One interesting cultural phenomenon of the last eight years or so has been the rapidly growing interest in country music; and it is no accident (to use the old Marxist...
Brudnoy's Index
Brudnoy, David
Altman has stamped his films with the distinctive mark of his personality, which embodies the tension between experience and intellect, between the material of American popular culture and his own...
The Public Policy
Meyerson, Adam
(—The Public Policy by Adam Meyerson It was not too long ago that we were barraged daily with reports of a world food crisis. International grain reserves, we were constantly told, had fallen...
The Price of Perfect Justice
O'Rourke, Terry
increase food production under these circumstances. And it is in this sense that America's enormous generosity in food aid ($25 billion since World War II) has been counterproductive, for recipient...
Current Wisdom
Jackasses, Assorted
• "Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad." —Euripides A fT:: Current Wisdom PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST: Author Clifford Irving, the American Proust, enunciates the elements of his...
Index for Volume Eight, 1974-75
The Alternative's Index for Volume Eight, 1974-75 BY WAY OF INTRODUCTION The Index includes all articles published in The Alternative from October 1974 through August/ September 1975. In the...
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