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IssueVol. 015 Issue 012 (December 1 1982)
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Paid articleEditorial / The Voice Grows Louder
Tyrrell, R. Emmett Jr.
The American Spectator is now fifteen years old and so is a period of unparalleled American decline in culture and in potitics~ There you have it: Ideas do, indeed, have consequences. This...
Paid articleCapitol Ideas / Mission to America
Bethell, Tom
goody Liberal exists who does not hear a voice in the back of his skull whispering "You are a little creep." Even Galbraith hears the voice. The voice does not lie. For f i f t e e n years The...
Paid articleThe Continuing Crisis
*October--electioneering at its most exuberant, at its sweatiest, at its most brazen and idiotic; yet despite the Democrats' and the pundits' dire yells of economic catastrophe and mossback...
Paid articleWhatever Happened to America?
Decter, Midge
WHATEVER HAPPENED TO AMERICA? I n the past fifteen years or so, American society has been positively riven by public disagreements. Shall we l~eep the peace by being strong or by being...
Paid articleWhatever Happened to Liberalism?
Cranston, Maurice
there ever been a society more obsessed with the various harmful properties of what we put into our mouths? To read the daily papers of the last, say, fifteen years or so is to be kept...
Paid articleRiposte from the Left
Lekachman, Robert
The trouble with the American judiciary is that its members cannot be removed so easily. And the judiciary since World War II has taken an increasingly large share of what Mr. Califano calls...
Paid articleThe True Liberal
Auspitz, Josiah Lee
Though many American exports have fallen on hard times, the United States unquestionably leads the world in purveying the term "liberalism" in an entirely debased and sectarian way that gives...
Paid articleSex/Back to Nature
Dannhauser, Werner J.
What's happened to sex in the last fifteen years? Maybe nobody knows. Privacy still shrouds the s u b j e c t , Heaven be praised, so sex remains to some extent inaccessible to our lust for...
Paid articleMedia / The Road to Anthony Lewis
Rodman, Peter W.
become, "What does the women's movement want?" I t ' s hard to find ar~ answer because when one b e g i n s to study f e m i n i s t thought one is forever at the edge of incoherence. That is...
Paid articlePolitics/The Party's Over
O'Lessker, Karl
allegedly misrepresenting to his superiors the size and strength of the enemy, to make it appear that he was winning the war. General Westmoreland's libel suit against CBS promises to be a...
Paid articleReligion / Claptrap Christians
Wilson, Ellen
tinue to erode; candidates operate more and more often as free agents; economic and social policy interest groups, disdaining collaboration with the gravely weakened party organizations, play...
Paid articleIntelligentsia / Among the Infrallectuals
Meyerson, Adam
Jesuits. I could run through parish book racks. Enough to say t h a t , although exceptions to these horrors abound, and resistance lurks in many breasts, lay and clerical, the sixties and...
Paid articleLabor/The Union Label
Puddington, Arch
have also been some contrasting shifts of opinion over the last fifteen years. Perhaps most dramatic has been the influence of neoconservative skepticism about the limitations of domestic...
Paid articleFinance/Who's Minding the Mint?
Grant, James
struggle for legitimacy a century after the founding of the American Federation of Labor poses a dilemma for our democratic system. Unions not only protect the rights of workers - - a n d we...
Paid articleProfessional Sports/The Decline and Fafl of the Sports Empire
Nisbet, Robert
of the Go-Go year of 1968. In 1975 came the first $300 billion budget. In 1977 trading began in contracts for future delivery of Treasury bonds, thereby placing the solemn obligations of the...
Paid articleAcademia/ After the Debauch
Lynn, Kenneth S.
dollars in damages. It will not be long before the outcomes of Superbowl and World Series games are held up until some federal judge rules on a contested game-decision. As the judiciary has...
Paid articleWhere Do We Go From Here?
WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE? Now that the above writers have set us straight on the glories that have overtaken the Republic since The American Spectator's arrival ! have asked the following...
Paid articleThe Best of Current Wisdom
Jackasses, The Usual
Foreign Policy A stupendous e l u c i d a t i o n of the A y a t o l l a h Khomeini's Divine Fascism from Dr. Richard Falk, a Beethoven in the foreign policy art: One of Washington's problems...
Paid articleIndex for Volume 15
long-time advocate of trial by ordeal and compurgation: Florynce Kennedy, a New York feminist attorney, called Uganda President Idi Amin "an outstanding figure" at a Yale Law School conference...
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