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Vol. 010 Issue 003 (December 1 1976)
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The Continuing Crisis
THE C O N T I N U I N G CRISIS ý82 Throughout October Governor Jimmy Carter bore up heroically against the truly scandalous aspersions hurled at him from all sides. Calumny piled upon calumny,...
Editorial
Tyrrell, R. Emmett Jr.
EDITORIAL by R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. Ralph Nader and the Return of the Shakers Ralph Nader, LL.B., is neither a scientist, a philosopher, an economist, nor an epicurean. He sleeps but four...
Oh Calcutta: Oi, Professor! (Special Book Review)
Starr, Roger
THE ALTERNATIVE: AN AMERICAN SPECTATOR VOLUME TEN, NUMBER THREE / DECEMBER 1976 Special Book Review / Roger Starr Oh Calcutta" Oi, Professor! How Milton Rakove, writing about Daley's Chicago...
Homage to Ebenezer Scrooge
Grant, James
We do well to remember that only one of the Antonines was sty4ed a philosopher. Unfortunately, Rakove seems to overlook this. In deference to his academic colleagues, he all too frequently...
A Nation of Deadbeats?
Lenkowsky, Leslie
Leslie Lenkowsky A Natiou of Deadbeats? The welfare state has not made Britons lazy. But in providing the public services that Britons have wanted, it has p , t them to work in eeonomieaUy...
The Lavender Menace
Maloney, Stephen R.
While curbing the welfare state was often threatened, it was rarely accomplished. Just as the Heath Government's efforts yielded almost invisible results, so too, one would predict, will the...
Highway Despotism: A Libertarian Look at Traffic Cops
Hilton, George W.
brilliant Harper's review of (bisexual) Kate MiUett's feminist screed, Sexual Politics, Irving Howe talks about his own family: I recall my mother and father sharing their years in trouble and...
The Nation's Pulse
Rusthoven, Peter J.
THE NATION'S PULSE by PeterJ. Rusttboven A Plague of Litigation Criticism of the courts, while hardly standard or daily fare, is far from uncommon in our avenues of public discourse. The...
Is Korea the Next Vietnam?
Weinrod, W. Bruce
Center, in a soon-to-be-published article on "The Constitution and the Moral Order" for the Hastings Constitutional Law Quarterly. Bennett eloquently points out that the litigious tendencies of...
Christmas Book Recommendations
Christmas Book Recommeudatious We offer here gift suggestions from some of the authors whose writings would top our own list of recommendations. In doing so, we hope to provide not only useful...
The Growth of American Government: A Morphology of the Welfare State
Nash, George H.
Trol!ope's Barch,:s,~': ~ 7bwer~, the best relatively new book t ~c,,e read- all year is Thomas M~nn's Dr', F,_.;~stus, ~,nd the best recently published b<~ok I h~=ve read all year is Saul...
T.S. Eliot
McLuhan, Eric
more drastic ventures in egalitarianism. By documenting the emergence and evaluating the record of the contemporary welfare state, Roger Freeman has performed a timely and useful service....
The Poverty of Power: Energy and the Economic Crisis
O'Lessker, Karl
might have done, but the rest, again descriptive (of the passage as known from the outside only), is just plain wrong. Spender then contradicts his "organic" description by a contrary...
On Watch
Cropsey, Seth
EDITORIAL (continued from page 4) nous complaints Citizen Nader has lodged against American business and American government I believe that he is discomfited by something far deeper than...
The Bootblack Stand
Plunkitt, George Washington
polemics of the attack on Rickover and further supported by the author's failure to explain the political pressures which subtend and advance each position. Thus comes the unappealing idea...
The Great American Saloon Series
Hedrick, Kenneth H.
THE GREAT AMERICAN SALOON SERIES bs Kenneth H. Hedrick I should have seen it coming, but it came so relentlessly and swiftly that before I knew it the transformation was complete. The old and...
Correspondence
C 0 R R E S P 0 N D E N C E To tl~ F_ditor: More than a letter to the editor would be needed to correct the misleading and misimeorm~ comments of B. Bruce-Briggs in your June-July issue. To...
Current Wisdom
Jackasses, Assorted
C U R R E N T W I S D O M New York Times Miss Letty Cottin Pogrebm writing under the pen name Letty Cottin Pogrebin uses the Socratic method to devastating effect. Such a mind! Such a...
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