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IssueVol. 009 Issue 004 (January 1 1976)
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Paid articleThe Continuing Crisis
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...
Paid articleEditorial
Tyrrell, R. Emmett Jr.
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...
Paid articleEconomic Myths and Public Opinion
Friedman, Milton
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...
Paid articleThe Philosopher's Disease
Bakshian, Aram Jr.
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...
Paid articleThe English Crisis: I. The Intellectuals
Welch, Colin
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)...
Paid articleThe Talkies
Asahina, Robert
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...
Paid articleThe Emergence of Soviet Sea Power
McTiernan, Robert L.
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...
Paid articleThe Nation's Pulse
Rusthoven, Peter J.
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...
Paid articleWhat Future for Partisan Politics?
Plattner, Marc
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...
Paid articleAmong the Intellectualoids
Maloney, Stephen R.
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...
Paid articleA Gang of Pecksniffs
Methvin, Eugene H.
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...
Paid articleHow the Good Guys Finally Won
Kucewicz, Bill
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...
Paid articleThe Roots of American Order
McDonald, W. Wesley
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...
Paid articlePragmatism and the Tragic Sense of Life
Ross, Ralph
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...
Paid articlePolitical Promises
Masters, Roger
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...
Paid articleThe Public Policy
Meyerson, Adam
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...
Paid articleThe Bootblack Stand
Plunkitt, George Washington
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...
Paid articleBrudnoy's Film Index
Brudnoy, David
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...
Paid articleCurrent Wisdom
Jackasses, Assorted
"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...
Paid articleCorrespondence
• 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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