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Vol. 011 Issue 001 (November 1 1977)
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The Continuing Crisis
THE CONTINUING CRISIS - September, and the Carter Administration's six-foot-two-inch, 225-pound juggler vanished along with that lovely set of snowy-white angel wings heretofore borne so primly by...
Editorial / On Ten Years of Public Service
Tyrrell, R. Emmett Jr.
EDITORIAL On Ten Years of Public Service R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. This journal is now ten years old. Mencken believed that ten years was quite long enough at one job, so last month I quit The...
The Struggle, Then and Now
Buckley, William F. Jr.
"The Struggle, Then and Now" George Nash has done the best that could be done to chronicle the development of a...
Looking Back on Neo-Conservatism: Notes and Reflections
Kristol, Irving
Looking Back on Neo-Conservatism: Notes and Reflections According to Daniel P. Moynihan, who has a scholar's attentiveness to such things, it was Michael Harrington who first used...
Operation Death-Wish
Muggeridge, Malcolm
"Operation Death-Wish" centered in the business community—that social democracy has taken for its enemy, is not opposed in principle to the welfare state. It is anti-socialist, of course, and anti-state-capitalist too....
When Academe Ran A Fever
Kenner, Hugh
"When Academe Ran A Fever" Out of the sixties emerged the Knowledge Factory, subdividing human curiosity into projects, breeding grants and white mice. Ike, "driven to the edge, almost,...
Vietnam and the Responsibility of Intellectuals
Miller, Stephen
"Vietnam and the Responsibility of Intellectuals" The Multiversity grew and prospered, and within it sundry Departments grew and prospered, thriving each one on Requirements. Requirements, being interpreted mean: If you will force your students to...
Why Were We In Vietnam?
Asahina, Robert
"Why Were We In Vietnam?" Nicola Chiaromonte, the Italian essayist, in a recent issue of Dissent. Attacking what he called "the widespread habit among our contemporaries of judging every problem concerning social reality in...
McCarthyism, Still the Life of the Party
Novak, Michael
"McCarthyism, Still the Life of the Party" war movie or war drama never really was an interesting or enlightening genre: After all, The Red Badge of Courage is a great novel about war, not merely a great "war novel" (or "anti-war novel," for...
Corporate Responsibility: Taking Care of Business
Levitt, Theodore
Corporate Responsibility: Taking Care of Business Despite the clamor of our so-called "public-interest" advocates, the modern corporation can pursue social responsibility only...
"Just A Newspaper Stiff"
Grant, James
"Just A Newspaper Stiff" unattainable goodness, an elimination of conflicts of interest, and in the process to risk destroying the pluralism that guarantees our liberties. The critics of business (and even some of its...
Capitol Ideas
Bethell, Tom
"Capitol Ideas" Record, offering him a job. "I turned it down," Smith says, "because Kay was a St. Louis girl, and I didn't want to leave town. But I couldn't fight my way past Bovard, and I got the Record to...
The Nation's Pulse / Le Rai Est Mort
Rusthoven, Peter J.
"The Nation's Pulse / Le Rai Est Mort" saying he lost $30,000 cash in a poker game. But he can't remember who with. Meanwhile he just keeps on spending more and more money. This is too much, so he is taken before the magistrate again,...
Voices for Europe (Special Book Review)
Kaplan, Roger
BOOKS IN REVIEW - "Voices for Europe (Special Book Review)" Born in Tupelo, Mississippi, reared in Tennessee, son of a truck driver, and, for a time, a truck driver himself, he rose on the strength of his talent (as well as some shrewd management by...
The New Mencken Letters, edited by Carl Bode
Farrell, James T.
BOOKS IN REVIEW - The New Mencken Letters Edited by Carl Bode / The Dial Press / $19.50 The good that H.L. Mencken did was not interred with his bones. At one time, Mencken was a Voice in American life...
We Must March My Darlings, by Diana Trilling
Fox, John
BOOKS IN REVIEW - "We Must March My Darlings, by Diana Trilling" his interest shifted to—in his phrase—"another great writer." He began working on a collection of the writings of Thomas Jefferson. In 1962 Guy J. Forgue, a Frenchman, edited a selection of Mencken...
The Feminization of American Culture, by Ann Douglas
Crutcher, Anne
BOOKS IN REVIEW - The Feminization of American Culture Ann Douglas / Knopf / $15.00 Ann Douglas is not only a formidably learned young woman; she is also a person. with original insights and the...
The Cloud of Danger, by George F. Kennan
Kristol, William
BOOKS IN REVIEW - "The Cloud of Danger, by George F. Kennan" Stail as a monster of ego drive with a mind more like a battering ram than a rapier. It wasn't the compliment Douglas seems to think it was. Ironically, she ends up doing less than justice to the...
Defending America, by Robert Conquest, et al.
Rosen, Stephen
BOOKS IN REVIEW - "Defending America, by Robert Conquest, et al." Defending America: Towards a New Role in the Post-Detente World / Basic Books / $13.95 John Wheeler-Bennett tells a story about two workers in Weimar Germany....
Current Wisdom
Jackasses, Assorted
CURRENT WISD0M The Daily Californian Advanced literary experiments heaved up by the nascent Hemingways at work on the editorial pages of the illustrious Daily Californian, newspaper of the...
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