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 Vol. 017 Issue 001 (January 1 1984)
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••Contents••
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 The Continuing Crisis
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_9 November passes, and once again our friends the Liberals show us what they are made of, in the main: highgrade rubber, the kind that can be stretched into almost anything. On November 21...
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Correspondence
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large as me." Yet do-gooders were unimpressed and once again attempted to spoil Thanksgiving dinner for the rest of us by droning on about the woebegone American Indians' penurious lives. Seven...
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Editorials / Thatcher Lets Us Down / Don't Shoot
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Tyrrell, R. Emmett Jr.
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by R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. The next time the British Broadcasting Corporation calls me in search of sweet music from a Yank critical of Irish-American support of the IRA or of some IRA...
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Capitol Ideas/Entrail Reading
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Bethell, Tom
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of homosexual rights, no-nuke JFK champion of the nuclear freeze and holistic medicine--doubtless many of the Believers now at work have spied evidence of all these good causes in John F....
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Who's Behind the Rosenbergs?
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Bernstein, Robert
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A few days after the whereabouts of two engineers closely linked to Julius Rosenberg, the late Alfred Sarant and Joel Barr, was confh'med by the New York Times to be the Soviet Union, where...
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The Derationalized Zone
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Stein, Benjamin J.
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Times about the Rosenbergs: "I would not take the position that they were completely innocent." At this point a man jumped up in the audience and screamed from the depths, "He never said that!...
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Sidney Hook: Fifty Years of Anti-Communism
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Miller, Stephen
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There are no second acts in American lives, F. Scott Fitzgerald once said, by which he meant that American writers usually fizzle out. Unable to sustain a full career, their writing takes a...
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Stanley Karnow's Vietnam
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Toai, Doan Van; Chanoff, David
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Marx, and has spoken of Marx's "own ideals of freedom and humanity." Solzhenitsyn regards Marx as a pernicious secular intellectual whose contempt for religious belief is at one with his...
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The Tourist Menace
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Haag, Ernest van den
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For another, Karnow accurately reports, for example, that the 1972 Christmas bombings of Hanoi and Haiphong were carried out against military targets with extraordinary precision, keeping...
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Presswatch/Fools for Grenada
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Barnes, Fred
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Contrary to what has become the conventional wisdom among conservatives, the White House and the Pentagon were not entirely blameless in the squabble with the press over covering the...
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The Nation' s Pulse / A New Conservatism
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Lehrman, Lewis
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be both premature and wrong. This time the shoe was on the other foot: The press suspected the students weren't endangered, the students said just the opposite--gotcha. The press was left...
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Among the Intellectualoids / Guilt Trip
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Hays, Charlotte
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There were eight of us on the trip to Togo---"working press" from the (Nashville) Tennessean, the Scranton Times, Essence magazine, National Public Radio, and one or two other publications....
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Politique Internationale / Katis vs. Eleni
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Taki
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dent. One involved Eyadema's coming to the rescue of some fishermen whose boat had been menaced by a whale. The president climbed into a helicopter and personally shot the whale: quite a blow...
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The Talkies/The Right Fluff
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Bayles, Martha
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the terrorists. So she did the next best thing. She organized their escape through Communist redoubts with a party of other women and children, but at the last moment she and her daughter...
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The Politics at God's Funeral
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Tedeschi, Mary
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In his Heidelberg lectures of 1848, Ludwig Feuerbach announced his principal aim: to change "the friends of God into friends of man, believers into thinkers, worshippers into worke r s . . ....
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Writers in Russia: 1917-1978
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HerbGreer
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front,-is blind to the most obvious fact of all: No modern ideology has proved so systematically hostile to religion as Marxism itself. Harrington tries to avoid this problem with an appeal...
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The Middle of My Tether: Familiar Essays
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Lilla, Mark
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F o r nearly ten years now Joseph Epstein has published a regular essay in the American Scholar, that remarkable quarterly he edits for the Phi Beta Kappa society. You will not have noticed his...
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Monimbo
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Kaplan, Roger
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Joseph Epstein was born and educated in Chicago, and today lives a short distance from where he grew up. This pleases him. He bravely admits of a pleasant, comfortable upbringing (in"The...
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The Whys of a Philosophical Scrivener
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Nolte, William H.
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When a book is a good one and worth the price asked for it by the book selling banditti, the best thing for the reviewer to do is to say so in plain words and have done. Any attempt to enlarge...
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White Mischief: The Murder of Lord Erroll
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McCartney, George P.
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anthropomorphic God. This kind of personal theology dispenses with argument and hence can be neither proved nor refuted. Whether or not one takes the leap depends solely on one's temperament....
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Earl Warren : A Public Life
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Erler, Edward J.
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soon to be polished off by the next war into which they were unavoidably drifting, they saw no point to life beyond the pleasure of the immediate moment. The authority of the older generation...
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Spectator's Journal / The Liberals' Halfway House
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Vigilante, Richard
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A t the last session of the first-ever conference on neoliberalism in Washington in October, Irving Kristol and Victor Navasky appeared to present critiques of the conference. Charlie Peters,...
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Current Wisdom
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Jackasses, Assorted
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The New Republic Unassailable testimony o f a reassuring nature from Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., the portly paladin who stood by the k e y h o l e : Then there is the question of [John F.]...
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