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Vol. 009 Issue 004 (January 1 1976)
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The Continuing Crisis
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The Continuing Crisis ^ November, and in America it is a time of thanksgiving. Across the land pious Americans bowed their heads over recumbent turkeys and thanked the Deity for everything from...
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Editorial
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Tyrrell, R. Emmett Jr.
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Editorial/R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. The Harold Robbins Award • • Theodore H. White has devoted the past fifteen years to developing a new kind of book, a book alluring to the aural tastes of that...
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Economic Myths and Public Opinion
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Friedman, Milton
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The Alternative: An American Spectator • January 1976 • Volume 9, Number 4 Milton Friedman Economic Myths and Public Opinion • (This article has been adapted from a William Arthur Maddox...
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The Philosopher's Disease
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Bakshian, Aram Jr.
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eople who pay taxes, and that's one of le worst programs we have, namely diect welfare. It's a bad program not beause it gives money to the poor but beause it produces poor people, because it...
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The English Crisis: I. The Intellectuals
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Welch, Colin
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litical system that ignores this is illogical; the individual mind that ignores it is not unfettered, but unhinged. Some of the very values that humane (though they might wince at the adjective)...
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The Talkies
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Asahina, Robert
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nority preferences; he is not bound to us by the nexus of profit and loss; if he pleases ten, he can afford to ignore nine with impunity. But so far we deal only with existing wants and known...
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The Emergence of Soviet Sea Power
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McTiernan, Robert L.
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in the fight sequences which occupy the center of interest in Hard Times. Although the movie deals with violent men engaged in a violent enterprise, there is surprisingly little actual violence...
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The Nation's Pulse
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Rusthoven, Peter J.
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by Peter J. Rusthoven The Nation's Pulse Justice William Orville Douglas, appointed to the Supreme Court by Franklin Roosevelt in 1939, served thirty-six-andone-half years on the nation's...
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What Future for Partisan Politics?
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Plattner, Marc
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and seventies I sided with our youth against the new Establishment that held the reins of power." Douglas' convictions—firmly rooted in a view of the world where heroes and villains were as clear...
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Among the Intellectualoids
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Maloney, Stephen R.
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their ability to direct federal money into their districts, are able to build up personal support independent of party allegiances. The proliferation of primaries has weakened the role of party...
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A Gang of Pecksniffs
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Methvin, Eugene H.
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ongoing love affaiis and then announces, "I know I will periodically return to celibacy." One periodically returns to that condition about the way one periodically returns to virginity. A little...
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How the Good Guys Finally Won
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Kucewicz, Bill
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keep him at all times in a glare of light." If the reformers in Congress were to create an independent federal regulatory commission to enforce such principles among today's practitioners of...
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The Roots of American Order
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McDonald, W. Wesley
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service by not trusting that our political system would function as swiftly and justly as most of us have come to believe. These cynics demonstrated the age-old desire of wanting to take the law...
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Pragmatism and the Tragic Sense of Life
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Ross, Ralph
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Book Review/Ralph Ross The Theory and Practice of Pragmatism • This book shows Hook at his best and his best is very good indeed. People who don't know his career will scarcely believe that for...
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Political Promises
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Masters, Roger
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Book Review/Roger Masters A Refresher Course in Politics • • Nelson Polsby is a gentleman and a scholar. He's also an uncommonly good writer. His collection of essays and reviews on American...
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The Public Policy
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Meyerson, Adam
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numbers of Americans thought that the checks and balances of our political system sheltered intolerable people and produced illegitimate public policies. While that may well be, Polsby quietly...
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The Bootblack Stand
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Plunkitt, George Washington
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are divided bitterly—not only by ideological differences but by political and military conflicts that would probably be inevitable between whatever nations were the world's two greatest powers. In...
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Brudnoy's Film Index
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Brudnoy, David
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EDITORIAL (continued from page 4) manifest that he does not do it for the sake of historical accuracy. Subsequent to the publication of Breach of Faith various government investigations have...
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Current Wisdom
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Jackasses, Assorted
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"Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad." Euripides Current Wisdom • • KULTUR NOTES: Another thoughtful aperfu into the highbrow world of the Hollywoodians: HOLLYWOOD—Barbara...
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Correspondence
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• correspondence • To the Editor: Neither the various articles nor editorial comments in The Alternative on foreign policy offer any creative alternative to the sterility of liberalism's postwar...
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