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Vol. 016 Issue 010 (October 1 1983)
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The Continuing Crisis
THE CONTINUING CRISIS It was unbelievably hot again in August and people did what they could to cope. In Honolulu, Hawaii, 645-pound Mike Parteleno entered the World Belly Flop and Cannonball...
Correspondence
CORRESPONDENCE Whose Future? The article by Stanley Rothman and S. Robert Lichter on "Polling the Future" (TAS, August 1983) was said to be part of a larger study of "elites and social change"...
Editorials/The Spotswoodian Pronunciamento/East German Jockettes
Tyrrell, R. Emmett Jr.
EDITORIALS THE SPOTSWOODIAN PRONUNCIAMENTO by R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. The judiciary's conceptions of free speech continue to fluctuate much as the moods of the late Mussolini continued to fluctuate...
Capitol Ideas / The Ad Hoc Hike
Bethell, Tom
CAPITOL IDEAS THE AD HOC HIKE by Tom Bethell Tomorrow I'll be attending that well-advertised grievance jamboree, the "New Coalition of Conscience" on the Mall, celebrating the twentieth anniversary...
George Will and the Contemporary Political Conversation
Sobran, Joseph
Joseph Sobran GEORGE WILL AND THE CONTEMPORARY POLITICAL CONVERSATION (Properly understood.) In early July, George Will underwent a sudden role change: all at once he was the object, rather than the...
Gutter Rousseauists
Miller, Stephen
Stephen Miller GUTTER ROUSSEAUISTS Political obsessions of the Writing Class. The United States, we are often told, is a predominantly commercial nation whose citizens are so preoccupied with...
The State of America's Newspapers
Stevenson, Matthew
Matthew Stevenson THE STATE OF AMERICA'S NEWSPAPERS Going the way of the railroads. In the winter of 1981-82, as part of my job as one of the directors of a newspaper syndicate, I visited the...
What the Scribes Are Saying About Ronald Reagan
O'Lessker, Karl
Karl O'Lessker WHAT THE SCRIBES ARE SAYING ABOUT RONALD REAGAN The honeymoon that nearer was. Somewhere in The Decline of the West Spengler remarked that what Western man needs is not freedom of the...
The Campus / Ralph Nader's Fifth Column
Ingraham, Laura
THE CAMPUS RALPH NADER'S FIFTH COLUMN by Laura Ingraham Contrary to most popular impressions, the greatest tyranny in the country is not from Washington, it is not from New York, it is the local...
Among the Intellectualoids/Grandpa Spock's Children
Tedeschi, Mary
AMONG THE INTELLECTUALOIDS GRANDPA SPOCK'S CHILDREN Whenever American children are not pouring their lunch money into video games, we are told, they are worrying about nuclear war. Fear of the bomb...
Presswatch / Access
Barnes, Fred
PRESSWATCH ACCESS by Fred Barnes Faith Ryan Whittlesey and Ronald Reagan are onto something in their critique of press coverage of the Administration's policy and actions in Central America, but...
Politique Internationale / Armed Neutrality
Taki
POLITIQUE INTERNATIONALE ARMED NEUTRALITY by Taki GENEVA-I remember the day as if it were yesterday. Hundreds of Princeton students demonstrating behind a giant sign that read: "Nothing is worth...
Overdrive
Buckley, William F. Jr.
BOOK REVIEWS Remember from this to be properly vexed When the newspaper editors say, That "The type of society shown in the Text Is rapidly passing away. "-Hilaire Belloc Only a saint could not envy...
A Colder Eye
Kenner, Hugh
A COLDER EYE: THE MODERN IRISH WRITERS Hugh Kenner/Alfred A. Knopf / $16.95 Roger Lewis There is a touch of the artist about Hugh Kenner. His discovery is that criticism need not be a meek and...
The Manhattan Gambit/'Ludes
Stein, Benjamin J.
THE MANHATTAN GAMBIT Benjamin J. Stein / Doubleday / $15.95 'LUDES Benjamin J. Stein/ Bantam Books / $3.50 Aram Bakshian, Jr. It is always difficult to write with taste about distasteful subjects....
KGB Today
Barron, John
KGB TODAY: THE HIDDEN HAND John Barron / Reader's Digest Press / $19.95 Curtis Cate John Barron's first book on the KGB-or the "Secret Work of Soviet Secret Agents" (as it was subtitled) -was...
Notes of a Revolutionary
Amalrik, Andrei
NOTES OF A REVOLUTIONARY Andrei Amalrik / Alfred A. Knopf/ $16.95 Paul Hollander Notes of a Revolutionary is a posthumous collection of Andrei Amalrik's writings, a chronicle of his confrontations...
Spectator's Journal / The Year of the Monarchist
Jamieson, T. John
SPECTATOR'S JOURNAL THE YEAR OF THE MONARCHIST by T. John Jamieson So far, 1983 has been a very good year to be a monarchist. Queen Elizabeth II drew such an enthusiastic response from Californians...
Current Wisdom
Jackasses, Assorted
CURRENT WISDOM The Boston Globe Gibbon and Falwell undone-a learned editorial from the sagacious Boston Globe printed in its entirety as a public service: For years, while historians studied the...
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