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IssueVol. 017 Issue 003 (March 1 1984)
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Paid articleThe Continuing Crisis
THE CONTINUING CRISIS oThe first month of chill 1984 expires and the goody-goodies' most dire premonitions have come to pass. Big Brother is going to run for a second term. He said so on the...
Paid articleEditorials/ Worst Books of the Year/Doped/Chef Kroc
Tyrrell, R. Emmett Jr.
E D I T O R I A L S WORST BOOKS OF THE YEAR b y R. Emmett T y r r e l l , J r . As years go, 1983 is now a ghost, which means that it is again my privilege to announce the J. Gordon Coogler...
Paid articleCapitol Ideas/ Smithwick and the Hive
Bethell, Tom
DOPED A decade or so ago all the progressive cognoscenti were in the ardors for idealizing various drugs: marijuana for the small fry, LSD and the like for the Big Leaguers. I personally recall...
Paid articleThe Big Cancer Lie
Efron, Edith
Edith Efron THE BIG CANCER LIE Deceiving the public and corrupting science. The Apocalyptics: Politics, Science, and the Big Cancer Lie by Edith Efron is the fully documented revelation o...
Paid articleThe Befuddlement of American Catholicism
McGurn, William
William McGurn THE BEFUDDLEMENT OF AMERICAN CATHOLICISM Oh, those medieval yearnings! I n the opening volume of his recent two-volume Catholicism, the Rev. Richard P. McBrien describes the...
Paid articleConservative Homes and Gardens
Jamieson, T. John
Church," he once wrote, "which I constantly find myself admiring, despite its frequent astounding imbecilities, has always kept clearly before it the fact that religion is not a syllogism but...
Paid articleThe Truth About Joe McCarthy
Bishop, William Rusher, with a reply by Joseph W. Jr.
aestheticism. Mrs. Wharton insisted that civilized people could only live by the light of wax tapers; electric light "makes the salon look like a railway station, the dining room like...
Paid articleThe Nation's Pulse / The Death of the Jackson Wing
Barnes, Fred
THE NATION'S PULSE THE DEATH OF THE JACKSON WING by Fred Barnes Former Vice President Walter F. Mondale is not exactly a stalwart of the Coalition for a Democratic Majority, the hawkish,...
Paid articleEminentoes /The Sickness of Comrade 'Dropoff
Karatnycky, Adrian
much of its intellectual strength pulled out. Abrams has become a Republican, giving up on the Democratic party in 1976 after anyone associated with CDM was blackballed in the Carter...
Paid articleThe Talkies/Silkwood Vague
Bayles, Martha
in the history of Russian power, whether in its Czarist or Soviet variant. And as exiled Soviet dissident Boris Shragin reminds us in The Challenge of the Spirit (1978), his excellent study of...
Paid articleReflections of a Neoconservative
Califano, Joseph A. Jr.
BOOK R E V I E W S I r v i n g Kristol, the graying guru of neoconservatives, never set foot in Washington until the late 1950s, after he had co-founded Encounter magazine with Stephen...
Paid articleThe Troubled Crusade: American Education 1945-1980
Turner, John R.
THE TROUBLED CRUSADE: AMERICAN EDUCATION 1945-1980 Diane Ravitch/Basic Books/S19.95 John R. Turner Dealing with a subject as diverse as American schooling over a 35-year period requires...
Paid articleBernard Baruch
Yoder, Edwin M. Jr.
reading except in those sections where she has a political story to tell. In that case she can be an interesting writer. Her chapter entitled "From Berkeley to Kent State," for example, which...
Paid articleThe Anatomy Lesson
Johnston, George Sim
At the end of the Second World War, Harry Truman asked him to head the American delegation to the UN conference on atomic weapons. He pushed a plan devised by David Lilienthal which inevitably...
Paid articleThe Last Testament of Oscar Wilde
Lewis, Roger
against a book reviewer would seem to prove Howe's point. Apart from getting even with Max Appel, Ztickerman's major pursuit is getting rid of the mysterious pain. He decides that the way to do...
Paid articleWashington Irving: History, Tales, and Sketches,
Anant, Victor
is that the squalor which was the reality of Wilde's last days is transfigured into art. We see Wilde convert his degradation into a symbol of the theological Fall. He also views himself as a...
Paid articlePolitique Internationale/ Visions of Cairo
Taki
POLITIQ UE INTERNATIONALE VISIONS OF CAIRO by Taki Cairo--Although Arab Islamic history began in the Arabian Peninsula, it was in Cairo that Islam gained its legitimacy and fashioned a...
Paid articleCurrent Wisdom
Jackasses, Assorted
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