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Vol. 016 Issue 002 (February 1 1983)
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Capitol Ideas/Sound Minds
Bethell, Tom
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Editorial/Free Shcharansky / Legends
Tyrrell, R. Emmett Jr.
well be suffering more from restricted immigration than benefiting from it." Even though the many Cubans who have arrived in Florida recently were penniless, they "brought their wealth with them."...
The Continuing Crisis
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Reflections on the State of Poland
Karpinski, Jakub
THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR VOL. 16, NO. 2 2 FEBRUARY 1983 Jakub Karpinski REFLECTIONS ON THE STATE OF POLAND Martial law or no, Solidarity lives. A s 1 write, a full year of martial law has not yet...
America's Federalist Heritage Rediscovered
Holland, Maurice J.
probably never learn about the mild disposition and cultural refinement of their new leader. Lech Walesa is a free man again. After his release from internment he said: an agreement, yes, but not...
Boasting
Stein, Ben
modesty and practical restraint, and affords a needed corrective to the rarefied and open-textured quality of much of federal law. Perhaps most important of all, when presiding over cases within the...
With Our Forces in West Germany
Train, John
the phenomenon which happened in Rye one month ago could have been replicated in Rome two thousand years ago or in Athens twenty-five hundred years ago, or in Pithom thirty-seven hundred years ago,...
Among the Intellectualoids / A Refined Irving Howe
Beichman, Arnold
.I.HI_ IN'TT:L1.E[:TU•ALOIDS A REFINED IRVING You don't have to be a sadist to enjoy Irving Howe's "autobiography" but it helps.* Not being (I think) sadistic. I can't say that reading Howe, the...
Eminentoes/Check-out Time
Brookhiser, Richard
there is such a thing as benevolent Trotskyism; or that by a process of self-mystification one can create out of nothing a Third Force, a Third Camp and thereby avoid having to make nasty political...
Presswatch / Old Fools
Barnes, Fred
Five years later, the Iron Curtain fell. Willkie's claptrap sold a million copies. On Dewey's right stood the socalled isolationists. So-called, because before the war, they were Anglophobes more...
The Great American Saloon Series/Dionysian Denver
Ertel, George
such straws in the wind as its concentration on terrorism as a Communist monopoly and its highly equivocal attitude toward the nuclear freeze movement." The result: "Publishers who specialize in...
Correspondence
nunciations of saloons, despite the opprobrium and physical abuse they brought him from the local rowdies, were apparently well received by Denver's temperance league. In 1862 President Lincoln...
Prejudices: A PhilosophicalDictionary
Nisbet, Robert
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Crisis: The Last Year of the Carter Presidency/Reagan
Jordan, Hamilton; Cannon, Lou
Each person has direct communication with the ideal, whether it be God or nature; no one should be subject to control either by direct coercive authority, as in hierarchies, or by indirect...
Death Penalties: The Supreme Court's Obstacle Course
Berger, Raoul
itself and, to the matter at hand, of Ham Jordan's labored effort to make high melodrama of low political comedy. Am I unfair? Judge for yourself: "I left my office only once all morning, "writes...
Roughnecking It
Williamson, Chilton Jr.
none of his business, or our business, or the Supreme Court's business, because when' it proposed the Fourteenth Amendment in 1866, the 39th Congress did not intend to make it the business of anyone...
New Individualist Review, Introduction
Friedman, Milton
Lyndon Johnson Got 130% of The Votes Needed to Lose! The great victory of Conservatism at the polls in November must not cause the Forces of Freedom to be lulled into complacency. Even though...
Summer Crossing
Tesich, Steve
the time of his death], and more.) Professor Friedman writes: "Most of the articles remain timely and relevant. More important, perhaps, this student venture, despite its narrow base and its...
Spectator's Journal/Letter from Sicily
Martinez, Mary
shins, and ankles, in order to jog to nowhere and back again" ("Whatever Happened to America?"). Midge Decter obviously loathes exercise to make such a statement full of excesses containing the...
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