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Vol. 012 Issue 011 (November 1 1979)
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A Letter From Europe / An Englishman Looks at Teddy
Worsthorne, Peregrine
A LETTER FROM EUROPE AN ENGLISHMAN LOOKS AT TEDDY by Peregrine Worsthorne Any idea that there should be some magical quality about a particular family would have seemed the merest superstition....
Editorial / The Twenty Years' War of the So-called Liberal
Tyrrell, R. Emmett Jr.
EDITORIAL THE TWENTY YEARS' WAR OF THE SO-CALLED LIBERALS by R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. The year was I960. John F. Kennedy had promised "to get the country moving again." He built up our military. He...
Capitol Ideas / Washington's Ways and Mean Streets
Bethell, Tom
CAPITOL IDEAS WASHINGTON'S WAYS AND MEAN STREETS From time to time people ask me what it is like to live in Washington, and I see their point: that it is possible to write about the goings-on and...
Norman's Conquests
Starr, Roger
Roger Starr NORMAN'S CONQUESTS Since "breaking ranks'' with the intellectual community in the late 1960s, Norman Podhoretz has been called a "racist," a "fascist," and, now, a...
Why Are There Neoconservatives ?
al, Elliott Abrams, et.
WHY ARE THERE NEOCONSERVATIVES ? A symposium. Sniffing the intellectual winds of our glorious era, and poring piously over the learned reflections on neoconservatism, we grow apprehensive. It...
Two Poems from the Chinese Underground
London, Miriam; Lee, Ta-ling
Miriam London & Ta-ling Lee TWO POEMS FROM THE CHINESE UNDERGROUND Startling democratic voices out of the New China. . One day in August ten years ago, a young man named Huang Hsiang, a worker at...
War as Metaphor
Hart, Jeffrey
Jeffrey Hart WAR AS METAPHOR Re-reading A Farewell to Arms. The transitoriness of things has always been a central theme of human reflection and lament. Virgil wrote of the tears at the heart of...
Amalgamated Political Fiction
Nollson, John
John Nollson AMALGAMATED POLITICAL FICTION Ezra Platt Lincoln, an employee of the Department of Agriculture, had temporarily retired on the proceeds of his best-selling Washington novel. His book...
The Public Policy / Saving Energy, Saving Souls
Howe, Nell
SAVING ENERGY, SAVING SOULS by Neil Howe Do you think the energy shortage is real?" asked a widely-circulated public opinion poll last June during the aftermath of the Iranian crude shutoff. The...
Stalin: Man of History
Grey, Ian
BOOK REVIEWS ment of the dictator is indeed "positive." Grey stresses that Stalin was a humble and moderate man who could nevertheless be extraordinarily decisive and bold in times of crisis. He...
A Tissue o Lies: Nixon vs. Hiss
Levitt, Morton; Levitt, Michael
A TISSUE OF LIES NIXON S. HISS Morton Levitt and Michael Levitt / McGraw-Hill / $14.95 Herman Belz Even considering the low standards and frequently meretricious quality of commercial publishing...
The Politics of War: The Story of Two Wars Which Altered Forever the Political Life of the American Republic (1890-1920)
Karp, Walter
THE POLITICS OF WAR: THE STORY OF TWO WARS WHICH ALTERED FOREVER THE POLITICAL LIFE OF THE AMERICAN REPUBLIC (1890-1920) Walter Karp / Harper & Row / $15.00 John Lewis Gaddis One of the functions...
Innocents of the Ir/est: Travels Through the Sixties
Colebrook, Joan
INNOCENTS OF THE WEST: TRAVELS THROUGH THE SIXTIES Joan Colebrook / Basic Books / $15.00 Jane Larkin Crain Australian-born novelist and journalist Joan Colebrook captures in this chronicle of...
Coming Out of the Ice: An Unexpected Life
Herman, Victor
COMING OUT OF THE ICE: AN UNEXPECTED LIFE Victor Herman / Harcourt Brace Jovanovich / $12.95 Robin Little Victor Herman's book has all the makings of a popular novel: adventure, intrigue,...
Things Past
Muggeridge, Malcolm
THINGS PAST Malcolm Muggeridge / Morrow / $9.95 Philip Terzian For Malcolm Muggeridge, the journey of the twentieth century has been an arduous one. Indeed, in his phrase, it has consisted largely...
Spectator's Journal
SPECTATOR'S JOURNAL First and Goal To Go A new movie has come along to cater to die masturbatory fantasies of the masochistic Left. Called North Dallas Forty, it purports to be an "expose" of...
Correspondence
CORRESPONDENCE Who Reads The American Spectator! The editorial board of the magazine Young Communist sends its regrets for the advertisement [renewal notice], which was sent to our address by the...
Current Wisdom
Jackasses, Assorted
CURRENT WISDOM The New York Times Magazine A mysterious missive, allegedly sent to the Times Magazine by our President's chief interpreter: "Carter Agonistes," by Eugene Kennedy (Aug. 5), which...
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