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 Vol. 013 Issue 008 (August 1 1980)
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••Cover Page••
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••Contents••
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 The Continuing Crisis
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_9 June 1 through July 11, and throughout the Republic politicoes and their handlers prepared themselves for the great Lying Match of 1980. One of the candidates who needs little preparation...
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Editorial / Ramsey Clark, World Patriot
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Tyrrell, R. Emmett Jr.
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RAMSEY CLARK, WORLD PATRIOT tK.wrimes~ of America Conference"? Did someone say "Crimes of America"? Now where did that disheveled crowd of mediocre graduate students now running...
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Capitol Ideas / Weary of the Leisure Class
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Bethell, Tom
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a very positive contribution to the Crimes of America conference, had he survived his sad political setbacks of yesteryear. Undoubtedly, he and the Hon. Clark would have spent many pleasurable...
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Critical Masses
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Bukovsky, Vladimir
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THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR VOL. 13, NO. 8 / AUGUST 1980 The Soviet Union's dissident many. *Why'XO"]" are there so few dissidents in the Soviet Union?" This is one of the most frequent questions I...
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Europe's Eastern Alliance
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Kaplan, Roger
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I got up and came forward. What happened within me at this time, I never could say. I did not feel myself. Such is probably how one feels on his way to an execution. And, perhaps, it is this...
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The Third Political Lie
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Seabury, Paul
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founded on equilibrium and reciprocal independence. That the French, t o g e t h e r with many other Europeans, are thinking of the Soviets as an "equal and independent" partner shows just...
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Toward America's Recovery
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Lugar, Richard
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The g r e a t masses of t h e p e o p l e will more e a s i l y fall v i c t i m to a big lie t h a n to a s m a l l o n e . (Hitler was no intellectual; Lenin concentrated on the...
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The Incomplete Maugham
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Nolte, William H.
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Instant Replay
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Nollson, John
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The Talkies / Kubrick's Family
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Podhoretz, John
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S t a n l e y Kubrick's new film, The Shining, is about a man who wants to kill his wife and son. It does not matter that the movie uses the conventions of the horror genre, explaining the...
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Presswatch / Imam Is Not Alone
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Ledeen, Michael
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The news breakthrough of the month comes from Tehran. According to Kayhan, on Friday evening, J u n e 14, Iranian f i g h t e r planes opened fire on a "luminous flying object" that...
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Among the Intellecrualoids / Babies in High Places
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Starr, Roger
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A f g h a n i s t a n : It seems that the mediocre epic of Gunga Dan Rather was sufficient for the American media; there has been no further first-hand coverage of the Afghanistan resistance....
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History of the Idea of Progress, by Robert Nisbet
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Minogue, Kenneth
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In his History of the Idea of Progress, Robert Nisbet argues that the doctrine of progress has fallen on hard times, and who can gainsay him? In the nineteenth century, men may perhaps have had...
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Go Quietly . . . or else, by Spiro T. Agnew
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Abrams, Elliott
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erick Teggart, who rightly pointed out that progressive ideas are bad history, is assumed t h e r e b y to be disillusioned with the idea of progress. This is to confuse Whig history with...
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Operation Sunrise: The Secret Surrender
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Manor, F.S.
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A managing editor I knew used to warn aspiring young reporters to beware of over-verification: It had ruined many a good story. The story seized upon by Bradley Smith and Elena Agarossi in...
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The Oak and the Calf
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Pilon, Juliana Geran
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command for insurrection throughout Northern Italy was given on April 25, after the Russian veto and before Field Marshal Alexander succeeded in obtaining the consent of the Combined Chiefs...
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The Shaping of America: A People's History of the Young Republic
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Wood, GordonS.
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THE SHAPING OF AMERICA: A PEOPLE'S HISTORY OF THE YOUNG REPUBLIC Page Smith / McGraw-Hill / t20.00 Gordon S. Wood H i s t o r i a n s do not write history the way they used to. During the...
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Philosophy and Public Policy
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Beichxnan, Arnold
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Admittedly, the half century following Independence is not an easy era to i n t e r p r e t . It was a period of e x t r a o r d i n a r y , unprecedented change. Not only were most of...
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An Invitation to Our Times
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Brown, Michael C.
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by devoting so much time to Hook's essay on social democracy I have overlooked many other essays in this volumc, essays on Alger Hiss, Lillian Hellman, T.S. Eliot, and Arnold Toynbee, among...
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Catholicism and Modernity: Confrontation or Capitulation ?
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Longford, Frank
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If only the standard doses of school reminiscence had been eliminated, bits of juvenilia about "Moose" the teacher who would rather talk baseball than history and "Big Ed" the authoritarian...
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Correspondence
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C 0 R R E S P 0 N D E N C E Oakes and the Gaff Your reviewer, Mr. Joseph Shattan, writes about me (Who's On First, by William F. Buckley, J r . ; June, 1980), "The Yale-educated Mr. Oakes is...
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Current Wisdom
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Jackasses, Assorted
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C U R R E N T W I S D 0 M The Washington Post Nicholas Lemann caught in flagrante delicto describing the peace-loving reformers of the Communist Workers Party who, nonetheless, passed on v i o...
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Spectator's J ournal
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Steigerwald, Willian
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