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Vol. 015 Issue 009 (September 1 1982)
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Capitol Ideas / The Once and Future Israel
Bethell, Tom
C A P I T O L I D E A S THE ONCE AND FUTURE ISRAEL by Tom Bethell The longshoreman philosopher Eric Hoffer said in 1967 that " i f Israel fails, then history can have no meaning." The rebirth...
Editorial / GOP Saps / Advice to My Friends
Tyrrell, R. Emmett Jr.
country to a decaying husk of tyranny How strange that so many of the founders of the modern state of Israel were themselves socialists, many of them from Russia. They, like Lenin, wanted to...
The Continuing Crisis
THE C O N T I N U I N G CRISIS _9 July 1982, and the days passed in their usual, sticky fashion, depressing the vacationless and turning them deaf to the whining of air conditioners, lawn...
Israel, Lebanon, and the United States
Kaplan, Roger
THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR VOL. 15, NO. 9 / SEPTEMBER 1982 Roger Kaplan ISRAEL, LEBANON, AND THE UNITED STATES Mistaking David for Goliath. The Israel Defense Force's invasion of Lebanon in June...
Third World Derangements
Jr, R. Emmett Tyrrell
tunistic gunslinger." Bad enough in and of themselves, such characterizations, taken out of Lebanon's bitter context of civil war and anarchy, were meant to convey the notion that Israel runs...
Kissinger II: Henry Kissinger and Years of Upheaval
Kaplan, HJ.
taste so savory; immerse them in the choicest grease--it will do no good. After the wireless has been installed and the TVs are in place, news from godless and gorgeous America will wobble...
Birdbrains in the Park
Peterson, John S.
JohnS. Peterson BIRDBRAINS IN THE PARK A child-care specialist reports on New York City's antinuke festivities. Untoward genius must die in a corner. I am ready to believe that these young...
Losing that Populist Touch: Ronald Reagan's Crumbling Coalition
Barnes, Fred
bombs, buy a Heineken's, chugalug chugaiom. It should be noted that the rock 'n' roll was ladled out with Machiavellian precision. There was just enough of it to hold the Muppets' attention...
The Public Policy / A New Flock of Sheep
Berns, Walter
A NEW FLOCK OF SHEEP As the Catholic "Peace Bishops" are about to learn, it is not possible to be both an American and a martyr. Christian " w i t n e s s e s " have been known in other times...
Eminentoes / Admiral Antinuke
Rehyansky, Joseph A.
their children, be isolated from the influences of the world around them. God, they all believe, has forbidden them to render unto Caesar what, in this case, Caesar had demanded. But there is...
The Great American Saloon Series / The Saloons of Wall Street
Mysak, Joe
cise, as these things went: a barren room, an official witness, browbeating, shouting, and sometimes foul language. Rickover was criticized on occasion for the way he handled these...
The Talkies / The Wimp from Outer Space
Bayles, Martha
THE WIMP FROM OUTER SPACE by Martha Bayles I t is odd that Steven Spielberg's E. T. , The Extra-Terrestrial should be classed with the current crop of special-effects space movies,...
The Underclass
Starr, Roger
B 0 0 K R E V I E W S Ken Auletta, like a multitude of social workers and political practitioners, believes that fallen souls can be rescued for useful work and con- + structive citizenship...
A Better Class of Person: An Autobiography
Greer, Herb
a New York City Housing Authority project and, you, my dea/brothers, are getting the McGees. Do you wonder that you are baffled? The families have bar: fled far better caseworkers for years...
Poets in Their Youth: A Memoir
Hart, Jeffrey
nowhere to be found in this narrative. The predominant tone is venomous spite. Childhood and early teenage years are now described as an awful ordeal of meanness, t a t t y living conditions,...
On Learning to Read: The Child's Fascination with Meaning
Turner, John R.
Both Dylan Thomas and Richard Blackmur, a brilliant literary critic and good minor poet, drank themselves rapidly into the next world. Even among writers, this represents high attrition....
Taking Care of the Law
Methvin, Eugene H.
has been a notable champion of freedom in an age when it has been fearfully assaulted by the forces of mass culture. With such works as The Informed Heart, The Uses of Enchantment, and...
The Mismeasure of Man
Stein, Kenneth Martin
indebted voters." Bell details his thwarted attempt to kill the Law Enforcement Assistance Administration, which poured federal dollars into Newark, home of House Judiciary Chairman Peter...
Treason Against God: A History of the Offense of Blasphemy
Lawler, Philip F.
TREASON AGAINST GOD: A HISTORY OF THE OFFENSE OF BLASPHEMY Leonard W. Levy / Schocken Books / $24.95 Philip F. Lawler I s Christianity a threat to the First Amendment? In this...
Correspondence
cratic friends to. come out swinging for socialized medicine. This has been on their minds since the late 1940s. I say thunder out for it now. Put a uniform on every doctor in the land....
Current Wisdom
C U R R E N T W I S D 0 M The New Republic The plaintive rebuke of a sorely-tried ethical pioneer espied on the correspondence section of a leading journal of speciesism: The most...
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