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Vol. 015 Issue 010 (October 1 1982)
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••Cover Page••
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••Contents••
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Capitol Ideas/ The R**l*ty Principle
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Bethell, Tom
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C A P I T O L I D E A S THE R**L*TY PRINCIPLE I have a horrible feeling your Correspondent in the Capital has been a bit remiss, failing to file a single report on the Reagan Administration...
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Editorial / The Plot to Destroy Dan Rather and Me / Facing Our Enemies
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Tyrrell, R. Emmett Jr.
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Two writers in the Washington Post then noted that Reagan's promise to dismantle the Departments of Education and Energy had bumped into: reality. This was said to be: gr'tty. Literally...
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The Continuing Crisis
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THE C O N T I N U I N G CRISIS _9 August, and though the Sun Belt continued to wilt under an incand e s c e n t sun and g h a s t l y sky, the North was soothed by wholesome, acid-free...
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Death
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Nisbet, Robert
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THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR VOL. 15, NO. 10 / OCTOBER 1982 Robert Nisbet DEATH Learning to die all over again. Of the recurring crises of the human condition--birth, marriage, death--the last has...
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Michael Novak's Commercial Republic
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Lawler, Philip F.
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Philip F. Lawler MICHAEL NOVAK'S COMMERCIAL REPUBLIC What's so special about democratic capitalism ? * .1[ he ~rq first of all moral obligations," begins Michael Novak, " i s to...
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A Central American Journal
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Novak, Robert D.
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Robert D. Novak A CENTRAL AMERICAN JOURNAL The Novak of Evans & Novak reports adagio con pessimismo from San Salvador, Managua, Tegucigalpa, and Guatemala City. While Communist guerrillas...
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Landscape Fiction
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Podhoretz, John
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ideological cold warrior comm-tted to makieg life u~..pleasant for the Sandinistas. Guatemala City, May 26. The culture shock on arriving here is intense. Guatemala City, with its heavy...
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The Talkies / Big Man On Campus
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Bayles, Martha
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BIG MAN ON CAMPUS John Irving's The World According to Garp is first and foremost a campus novel. Its hero, T.S. Garp, grows up in a New England prep school where his unwed mother is a nurse;...
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Eminentoes / The Most Happy Fella
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O'Lessker, Karl
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leads away from politics and into private life. Which would be all right except that it also provides them with an excuse to regard their nesting instincts as ideologically and morally superior...
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Presswatch / Summertime Follies
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Barnes, Fred
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SUMMERTIME FOLLIES Nothing puts the press on guard like special pleading from an interest group--except when that interest group is the press itself. Hysteria, paranoia, tendentious reasoning,...
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The Campus / A Conservative Paper Chase
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Souza, Dinesh D'
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A CONSERVATIVE PAPER CHASE by Dinesh D' Souza I n the last two years, some 25 conservative newspapers have appeared on the American campus. There are now such papers at Harvard,...
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America in Search of Itself: The Making of the President 1956-1980
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White, Theodore H.
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B 0 0 K R E V 1 E W S A few months ago I watched a lot of people (the count varied from 200,000 to 800,000 depending on the counter's politics) milling around Manhattan, chanting peace...
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Take Five
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Mano, D, Keith
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Of course the book contains occasional error and weaknesses. The Democratic party of the United States is not " t h e world's oldest continuous living p a r t y " : The British Tories can...
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Old Glory: An American Voyage
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Raban, Jonathan
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pun runs wild in it. "Simon's associative t a l e n t s , especially his visual talents, are remarkable," we are told by the omniscient observer, who of course displays the same talents in his...
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The Wayward Welfare State / The No-Risk Society
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Freeman, Roger A.; Aharoni, Yair
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I know very little of writers, but people I do no. You are a good man to ride the river with, Jonathan Ravan. The voyage ends on a note that can only be called near suicidal, and vintage...
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The Portable Kipling
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Howe, Irving
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Security System survives on its moral capital, for most citizens would demand its abolition if they calculated only their:private interests in that giant Ponzi scheme. Of course, the public's...
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Bismarck
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Crankshaw, Edward
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enough, with Mr. Howe's introductory essay, a discussion which fails to summarize even briefly the intriguing and substantial body of existing Kipling criticism (Mr. Howe makes no mention of...
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Instead of Regulation: Alternatives to Federal Regulatory Agencies
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Jr, Robert W. Poole
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Yet he also seemed, at times, to act as if he were the last believer in absolute kingship. He first emerged from obscurity when the 1848 uprisings were shaking the thrones of Europe and the...
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Correspondence
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pollution control, Peter Aranson argues that the Environmental Protection Agency is ill-suited to decide cost-benefit issues for local communities, as it now does. He accuses the EPA of...
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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 Writer's Newsletter Art in the Boonies as reported upon by the eloquent Elizabeth Krajeck Cohen in Writer's Newsletter, another prodigy of the Indiana...
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