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Vol. 015 Issue 012 (December 1 1982)
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••Cover Page••
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••Contents••
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Editorial / The Voice Grows Louder
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Tyrrell, R. Emmett Jr.
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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...
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Capitol Ideas / Mission to America
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Bethell, Tom
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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...
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The Continuing Crisis
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*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...
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Whatever Happened to America?
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Decter, Midge
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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...
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Whatever Happened to Liberalism?
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Cranston, Maurice
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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...
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Riposte from the Left
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Lekachman, Robert
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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...
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The True Liberal
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Auspitz, Josiah Lee
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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...
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Sex/Back to Nature
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Dannhauser, Werner J.
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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...
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Media / The Road to Anthony Lewis
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Rodman, Peter W.
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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...
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Politics/The Party's Over
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O'Lessker, Karl
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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...
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Religion / Claptrap Christians
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Wilson, Ellen
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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...
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Intelligentsia / Among the Infrallectuals
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Meyerson, Adam
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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...
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Labor/The Union Label
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Puddington, Arch
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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...
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Finance/Who's Minding the Mint?
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Grant, James
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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...
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Professional Sports/The Decline and Fafl of the Sports Empire
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Nisbet, Robert
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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...
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Academia/ After the Debauch
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Lynn, Kenneth S.
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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...
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Where Do We Go From Here?
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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...
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The Best of Current Wisdom
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Jackasses, The Usual
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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...
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Index for Volume 15
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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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