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 Vol. 013 Issue 012 (December 1 1980)
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••Cover Page••
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••Contents••
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 The Continuing Crisis
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THE CONTINUING CRISIS - The man who has been a conservative presidential contender since 1968 finally prevailed, and he has moved every area of...
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Editorial / Bibo Ergo Sum
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Tyrrell, R. Emmett Jr.
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"Editorial / Bibo Ergo Sum" - Alexander the Great is back in the news, and unlike so many of the notables mentioned there, the late Macedonian politico owes his current celebrity not to the artistry of...
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Capitol Ideas / The Passing of the Buck
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Bethell, Tom
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"Capitol Ideas / The Passing of the Buck" To offer sympathy to a wrongdoer is an act of common decency; to return him to the House of Representatives is an act of frivolity bordering on the infantile. It is an indication of how far...
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The Entrepreneurial Future
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Gilder, George
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"The Entrepreneurial Future" -George Gilder From Silicon Valley to tiny Cambex. Most critics of capitalism now accept the crucial role of entrepreneurs in the earlier stages of the...
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Solzhenitsyn Reconsidered I
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Muggeridge, Malcolm
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"Solzhenitsyn Reconsidered I" Malcolm Muggeridge Solzhenitsyn vs. the Kremlin. Ever since Solzhenitsyn's Harvard address the changed attitude of the media pundits in the West...
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Solzhenitsyn Reconsidered II
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Winthrop, Delba
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"Solzhenitsyn Reconsidered II" - reader is conscious of it all the time - acquired in the Gulag Archipelago, where, being totally deprived of freedom in earthly terms, he came to understand what constituted...
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The Reagan Budget
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O'Lessker, Karl
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"The Reagan Budget" Laws, when good, are as few and as limited in scope as possible out of respect for the presumption of natural liberty. The morality of modern liberalism is nothing more than obedience to the...
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Chrysler's Nuclear Showroom
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Nollson, John
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"Chrysler's Nuclear Showroom" will not be greatly lowered by the President's confident (and accurate) predictions that the 1983 budget really will at long last be balanced. But not all deficits are created equal nor are...
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Books for Christmas
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Rustin, Bayard
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BOOKS FOR CHRISTMAS A book buyer's guide for the Holiday Season. ALLAN BLOOM Professor, Committee on Social Thought, University of Chicago. A cautionary tale for our season: Telford Taylor's...
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European Document / The Paris Synagogue Bombing
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Aron, Raymond
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"European Document / The Paris Synagogue Bombing" - Is there a new anti-Semitism in France? This question has been the subject of some rather heated debate in the past'two or three years. As Raymond Aron points out...
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Presswatch / Billy Lie
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Ledeen, Michael
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"Presswatch / Billy Lie" - a cover for anti-Semitism. Not always. At any rate, if all those who object to certain aspects of Israeli policies should pass for anti-Semites, Israel itself would have more of them...
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The Talkies / Mazursky Trio
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Podhoretz, John
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"The Talkies / Mazursky Trio" - Willie and Phil, the title characters love each other, though they are not homosexuals, and they both love Je annette, who loves them both. Since she...
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Public Policy / The Bromide of Campaign '80?
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Abrams, Elliott
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"Public Policy / The Bromide of Campaign '80?" all Willie,'Phil, and Jeannette ever do is drop acid once (in the only scene in the movie that is remotely realistic, and the only one in which Margot Kidder, who plays Jeannette, gets a chance...
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Fire in the Minds of Men: Origins of the Revolutionary Faith
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Dannhauser, Werner J.
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B00KS IN REVIEW - "Fire in the Minds of Men: Origins of the Revolutionary Faith" It must be difficult to find a book as uneven as this one, as unmistakably characterized by tensions of style and approach, as curiously unsatisfying even while it is...
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Kingdoms of the Blind
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O'Rourke, Terry
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B00KS IN REVIEW - "Kingdoms of the Blind" real revolutions of 1848 signified the decline of the ideal of fraternity and the advent of the ideal of equality. Nationalists became less glamorous than socialists as the vanguard shifted...
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Correspondence ofF. Scott Fitzgerald
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Nolte, William H.
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B00KS IN REVIEW - "Correspondence ofF. Scott Fitzgerald" takes comfort in dente and SALT, oblivious to the Soviet view that d&ente is merely a reflection of the West's weakness ("a result of the great shift of balance of world power in favor...
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Arabia, the Gulf and the West
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Kelly, J. B.
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B00KS IN REVIEW - "Arabia, the Gulf and the West" fair and a brittle and 'unchosen' world confronts us again I'll be so glad when the winter desists from its barbarianisms and one can breathe again As I say, the letters in...
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Current Wisdom
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"Current Wisdom" Future Life Jose Alcarez, the eloquent associate publisher of Aura, Magazine, offers avisienary pronunciamento t...
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Index for Volume 13
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INDEX FOR VOLUME 13 The Index includes all articles published in The American Spectator from January through December 1980. In the listings, the Roman numeral refers to...
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