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Vol. 015 Issue 001 (January 1 1982)
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••Cover Page••
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The Continuing Crisis
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_9 The Christmas season is upon us, and as all who observe this gaudy American holiday know, that means it is time to shoplift. Students of the art tell us that more than eight billion dollars...
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Editorial / Swedish Dreams of Empire
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Tyrrell, R.Emmett Jr.
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SWEDISH DREAMS OF EMPIRE by R. Emmett Tyrrell, J r . L a s t month members of the worldwide peace movement temporarily had to ease up on their demonstrations against American...
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Capitol Edeas / Good Writer Greider
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Bethell, Tom
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not work very well in Russia. We do know that a few days later President Brezhnev looked very haggard during meetings in West Germany. According to the p r e s s , he consumed a bottle and a...
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Yellow Rain Over Laos
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Rothwell, Nicholas
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THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR VOL. 1 5 , - NO. 1 /- JANUARY t 9 8 2 Nicholas Rothwell YELLOW RAIN OVER LAOS A neglected page in the diplomatic history of the Carter Administration. S l o w l y , a...
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Robert Nozkk, the Congenial Philosopher
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Herzog, Don
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Don Herzog ROBERT NOZICK THE CONGENIAL PHILOSOPHER Explaining why proof is not enough. The history of philosophy, I sometimes think, provides all the materials for a roustabout drama....
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The Legacy of Constitutionalism: The hoebner Era Reconsidered
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Holland, Maurice J.
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portraying some mythic lonely individual teetering on the edge of some existentialist precipice, blindly and arbitrarily affLrming some set of values. But it's no coincidence that we tend...
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Over Here: Veterans in the New Age
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Rehyansky, Joseph A.
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has even less to do with one's approach to constitutional interpretation and basic judicial philosophy than the latter. What is needed most is a remedy for what might be called the hypertrophy...
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The Public Policy / Taxing Interest Rates
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Bethell, Tom
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TAXING INTEREST RATES by Tom Bethell Everyone seems to be puzzled about interest rates. The chairman of the F e d e r a l Reserve Board is puzzled. The chairman of the Council of Economic...
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Spectator's Journal / Reaganism Meets the Third World
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Crutcher, Anne
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from a political point of view, the activities of the envy-arousal brigade notwithstanding. If the present level of interest rates can be explained as a simple matter of lenders demanding a...
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Among the Intellectualoids / Hot to Trot, So What?
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Muggeridge, John
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points that remain between the United States and the Third World. American talk about the virtues of the free market sounds a little too glib combined with American reluctance to open "trade...
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The Nation's Pulse / A Few Liberals Sober Up
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Barnes, Fred
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my way when I give a perfectly serious account of things." This weird mixture of detachment and commitment, of frivolity and seriousness may derive from the fact that Spark is an English...
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Correspondence
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ism." That is not too illiberal, but Tsongas also had the gall to challenge the $1.1 billion pay raise for union workers included in the federal bailout for the Chrysler...
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Debts of Honour
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Greer, Herb
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B 0 0 K R E V I E W S Suppose (God help us) that Michael Foot should one day become Prime Minister of Great Britain. What in the world would the Americans make of him? If the...
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Selected Letters of Raymond Chandler
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Teachout, Terry
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moderate Times was moved by this to pose the editorial question: "Is Mr. Foot a Fascist?" Foot's association with what Labour (now SDP) moderate Shirley Williams once called "the fascism...
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The Persistence of the Old Regime: Europe to the Great War
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Johnjamieson, T.
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Who reads The American Spectator? Patrick Buchanan. ALSO: Ronald Reagan. Malcolm Muggerldge, Ben Wattenberg, Peregrine Worsthorne. S.I. Hayakawa, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Henry Kissinger,...
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Journey to Nowhere: A New WorldTragedy
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Kaplan, Howard
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the sons of the bourgeoisie into the academy or the arts, also impeded the formation of "a counterelite and counterhegemony" by keeping the scions from piling million upon million through the...
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Current Wisdom
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C U R R E N T W I S D 0 M The Indianapolis Star Two perceptive readers respond to Tyrretl's observations of a Russian sub aground: I can't believe that you would print the column by R. Emmett...
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