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Vol. 008 Issue 008 (May 1 1975)
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The Continuing Crisis
The Continuing Crisis - March! And the furious debate continues throughout North Texas and Oklahoma over why some scapegrace absconded with the blood, the sexual organs, the ears, and the lips of Mr. J.R. Allison's...
Editorial
Tyrrell, R. Emmett Jr.
"Editorial" From Cambridge in the East to Berkeley in the West, and not excluding all the cow colleges in between, there are multitudinous colonies of apprehensive little men and women earnestly consuming the...
Obedience to Autbority
Chickering, A. Lawrence
"Obedience to Autbority" Advancements in knowledge about the social and psychological nature of man are tragically few and far between. Since the middle of the nineteenth century, the fashion has been to expect those...
Abolish "Reform"
Wilson, James Q.
"Abolish "Reform" On learning of Samuel Johnson's remark that patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel, Roscoe Conkling, a New York politician widely acquainted with scoundrels, remarked that Dr. Johnson had...
Hayek: The Road to Stockholm
Grant, James
"Hayek: The Road to Stockholm" Inflation and recession together grip the land; oil sheiks plot and politicians promise. Economics, a science less dismal than disputatious, was honored last year in a manner uniquely suited to the...
Holmes, Sweet Holmes
Murchison, William
"Holmes, Sweet Holmes" A certain distinguished beekeeper on the Sussex Downs finds himself achieving celebrity once again. Not that Mr. Sherlock Holmes has been dwelling in obscurity, even at the age of something...
The Nation's Pulse
Rusthoven, Peter J.
"The Nation's Pulse" On December 22 of last year, the New York Times published a long front-page article, under the byline of Seymour Hersh, about unauthorized covert activities aHegedly carried on by the Central...
The Talkies
Stein, Benjamin
"The Talkies" Movies about women are becoming like what movies about blacks were a few years ago. As soon as they are made, they are guaranteed an audience and at least a few sympathetic reviews. We are living in...
A Federal Policy for Higher Education?
Finn, Chester E. Jr.
"A Federal Policy for Higher Education?" With many of the federal higher education programs expiring during its lifetime, the Ninety-fourth Congress has already begun to address itself to the tangled question of which to keep, which to...
Demythologizing the Poor
Machan, Tibor R.
"Demythologizing the Poor" It is a common precept that the poor shall inherit the earth. But it is a widespread dogma that they deserve to. Why should we accept and live with this point of view? That this dogma of the...
A Libertarian's Basic Repertoire
Raico, Ralph
"A Libertarian's Basic Repertoire" When on October 9 of last year it was announced that the 1974 Nobel Prize in economics would go to Gunnar Myrdal and F. A. Hayek, a person close to the Nobel awards committee was quoted as remarking...
Peace Is Not at Hand
Rusthoven, Peter J.
"Peace Is Not at Hand" In the past several weeks, the war in Vietnam has surfaced, once again, as a major item on the evening news. In a sense, this is quite surprising, for if there is one topic which both the media and...
Brudnoy's Film Index
Brudnoy, David
"Brudnoy's Film Index" Abby: The Exorcist in blackface. Poor sweet Abby gets possessed, and is she a terror when she's on. Rest easy: the black preacher man saves her from the nasty demon and we all go home happy, all...
Black Fiction
Benston, Kim
"Black Fiction" The chronological divisions which critics have used to define movements and trends in black literature (the twenties are referred to as the "Harlem Renaissance"; the thirties and early forties as...
Guilty Pleasures
Krieger, Terry
"Guilty Pleasures" On the page that precedes the title page and that contains a list of books by Donald Barthelme, and on the inside of the book jacket at the front of the book, Guilty Pleasures is characterized as...
The Genteel Populists
Codevilla, Angelo M.
"The Genteel Populists" Generations of reformers have worked to make the central government of the United States ever more powerful. Only government power, they have thought, can keep the average man from being dwarfed by,...
The Bootblack Stand
Plunkitt, George Washington
"The Bootblack Stand" Dear Dr. Plunkitt: Recently I took a break from my writing and lecturing and spent some time in a federal prison just helping the convicts learn the essentials of good manners, sound bodily...
The Public Policy
Meyerson, Adam
"The Public Policy" At the February convention of the AFL-CIO in Bal Harbour, Florida, President George Meany found time, in between eating steak, riding around in liveried limousines, and otherwise bemoaning the sorry...
Corrent Wisdom
Jackasses, Assorted
"Current Wisdom" BELLES-LETTRES: Mr. Arnold Gingrich, illustrious editor of Esquire, engauds the trite: History has been known to evince a tendency to repeat itself, so the possibility probably ought to be faced...
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