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Vol. 015 Issue 005 (May 1 1982)
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The Continuing Crisis
THE C O N T I N U I N G CRISIS 0 March, and the music in the air is the music of dirge, all of it lamenting what the President has done to America. Things were so grand and glorious before...
Capitol Ideas/ A Cross of Gold
Bethell, Tom
C A P I T O L I D E A S A CROSS OF GOLD by Tom Bethell I n normal times, no subject could be more tiresome than monetary policy. Money can be likened to the railway lines along which the...
Editorial / With the Senator from Newsweek / Afterthought
Tyrrell, R. Emmett Jr.
This is another way of saying that we hear too much about money supply and not enough about money demand. As I write, we are in a period of rapidly declining inflation. The "money supply" (M1),...
The Trivialization of Friedrich Nietzsche
Dannhauser, Werner J.
THE AM ERICAN SPECTATOR ~ ] ~ ' VOL. 15, NO. 5 / M AY 1982 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . i . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ....
Allah and Man at Columbia
Ross, Mitchell S.
widening of distances within the soul itself, the development of e v e r h i g h e r , r a r e r , more remote, further-stretching, more comprehen. sive s t a t e s - in brief simply the...
Media Smears: One Man's Experiences
Sowell, Thomas
Thomas Sowell MEDIA SMEARS: ONE MAN'S EXPERIENCES A noted economist fires back. I n the movie, Absence of Malice,'lives are damaged and even destroyed by irresponsible reporting--and the...
The Nation's Pulse / Gildering the Lily
Haag, Ernest van den
GILDERING T*..'E LILY George is at it again ("Capitalism Is for Givers," TAS, February 1982). He's put himself in charge of showing that capitalists are nice guys and not nasty money grabbers...
Eminentoes/ Ayn Rand, R.I.P
Bakshian, Aram Jr.
EMINENTOES AYN RAND, R.I.P. She was, to borrow a phrase from Disraeli, a self-made woman who ? worshipped her creator. And now, at 77, Ayn Rand, the Goddess of Libertarian Objectivism, has...
Among the Intellectualoids / High Minds
Wooster, Martin Morse
was seldom original (although she claimed, with customary modesty, that the only person other than herself to help shape her ideas was Aristotle); where she was original, she was seldom right....
Correspondence
like the Tom Lehrer lyric. 'When the rocket goes up, who cares where it comes down ? That's not my department,' said Wernher yon Braun. " "Most intellectual causes ar~ far removed from their...
Ethnic America: A History / Markets and Minorities / Pink and Brown People, and Other Controversial Essays
Sowell, Thomas
B O O K R E V I E W S To anyone who has already studied Thomas Sowell's Rave and Economics (1975), these three books should need no further recommendation than that they are all the work of...
God's Fifth Column
Gerhardie, William
long ago, when unemployment rates were lower for black juveniles than for white. But that was in a period before minimum wage laws, when n e i t h e r the s t a t e nor the uniQns were p r e v...
Growing Up Underground
Alpert, Jane
compared with her guest in the royal box at the Opera, the Empress Eugenic . . . . Reared for a throne, the Queen sat down without looking to see whether there was a chair or not to sit down on,...
A Fistful of Fig Newtons
Shepherd, Jean
to become a fugitive and thereby prove her commitment to the revolution. What she proved instead was her commitment to J a n e Atpert. Once underground, her politics, never c e r t a i n ,...
Social Studies
Lebowitz, Fran
ing not to notice her glistening eyes. Our family was never much for crying, and when someone did, you weren't supposed to notice. "I think there's some summer sausage left. You mean you never...
Saki: A Life of Hector Hugh Munro
Langguth, A J.
to her irreproachably ascetic maleprep wardrobe. She has disavowed what is inevitably drawn as her soul sisterhood to Dorothy Parker, and so she should; Fran would snort with refreshing...
Current Wisdom
ackasses, Assorted J
C U R R E N T W I S D 0 M The Daily Californian In the s t u d e n t g a z e t t e of the University of California at Berkeley, Miss Ellen C l e a r r e p o r t s the e n l i g h t e n e...
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