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Vol. 018 Issue 003 (March 1 1985)
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••Contents••
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The Continuing Crisis
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THE CONTINUING CRISIS
• January marked the second inauguration of Ronald Reagan, a politician who, one decade ago, was adjudged by wholesome opinion to be a corpse worthy of a place in the...
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Correspondence
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CORRESPONDENCE
Stein's Classic
I wish to tell you what you probably already know: "Love Between the Ages" by Benjamin J. Stein (TAS, January 1985) is no less than a classic. Congratulations to him...
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Editorials/Liberal Denial/Requiem for a Bum
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Tyrrell, R. Emmett Jr.
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EDITORIALS
LIBERAL DENIAL
by R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr.
Considering the baleful outcome of this fall's election for my Liberal friends, and the outcome of every presidential election since 1968, save...
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Capitol Ideas/Worst Book of the Year
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Bethell, Tom
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CAPITOL IDEAS
TAS's Annual J. Gordon Coogler Award:
WORST BOOK OF THE YEAR
Like the use of the word "protocol" in connection with arms control negotiations. It refers both to the forms of etiquette...
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The Reagan Doctrine
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Fossedal, Gregory A.
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Gregory A. Fossedal
THE REAGAN DOCTRINE
You might have missed it, but it was boomed in January.
Nuclear weapons kill people. They should be limited and, ideally, completely dismantled. Satellites...
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The Murray Imbroglio
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Gilder, George
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George Gilder
THE MURRAY IMBROGLIO
Charles Murray's inexcusable good deeds.
Charles Murray's Losing Ground' is an utter outrage. On every page it reeks of a callous and unconscionable lack of...
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The Banking Revolution
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Oppenheimer, Franz M.
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Franz M. Oppenheimer
THE BANKING REVOLUTION
As banking outgrows the New Deal, Congress has to face the future.
And always keep a-hold of Nurse For fear of finding something worse
-Hilaire Belloc
The...
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The Dirty Secrets of Grenada
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Puddington, Arch
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Arch Puddington
THE DIRTY SECRETS OF GRENADA
They kind of make you wonder about the Sandinistas.
A favorite diversion of the Marxist left, both here and abroad, is mulling over the lessons of its...
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Manhattan Cut in Slices
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Johnston, George Sim
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George Sim Johnston
MANHATTAN CUT IN SLICES
Tom Wolfe publishes a novel one chapter at a time.
What is going on in the pages of Rolling Stone! After years of making faces and otherwise annoying our...
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Presswatch/Standard Practices
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Barnes, Fred
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PRESSWATCH
STANDARD PRACTICES
by Fred Barnes
Correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't Ronald Reagan the guy who tried the hard-line approach in negotiating on nuclear arms reductions with the Soviets?...
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Among the Educationaloids/Teachers' Tabloid
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Finn, Chester E. Jr.
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AMONG THE EDUCATIONALOIDS
TEACHERS' TABLOID by Chester E. Finn, Jr.
Occasionally the values that guide an organization and the priorities that govern it emerge with special clarity from its...
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The Talkies/Shawcross on Screen
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Podhoretz, John
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THE TALKIES
SHAWCROSS ON SCREEN by John Podhoretz
Movies delve into politics at their peril. There have been very few financially or artistically successful political movies, and justly so. The...
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Nomenklaturg" The Soviet Ruling Class
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Voslensky, Michael
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BOOK REVIEWS
NOMENKLATURA: THE SOVIET RULING CLASS
Michael Voslensky/Doubleday/$18.95
Joseph Shattan
Everyone is familiar with Winston Churchill's characterization of the Soviet Union as "a riddle...
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Inside the Criminal Mind
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Samenow, Stanton E.
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INSIDE THE CRIMINAL MIND
Stanton E. Samenow/Times Books/$15.50
William Tucker
Late last year in New York, a 21-year-old gang member killed a 23-year-old Harvard graduate while trying to rape and rob...
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Hubert Humphrey: A Biography
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Solberg, Carl
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HUBERT HUMPHREY: A BIOGRAPHY
Carl Solberg/WW. Norton/$19.95
Kent Owen
The name reverberates like a steam calliope in heat: Hubert Horatio Humphrey. The image is still vivid: lofty forehead gleaming...
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The Paideia Program
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Adler, Mortimer J.
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THE PAIDEIA PROGRAM
Edited by Mortimer J. Adler/Macmillan/$7.95; $3.95 paper
James Harkness
The Paideia Program concludes Mortimer Adler's insistently alliterative trilogy on American schooling, and...
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Double Visiot: How the Press Distorts America's View of the Middle East
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Chafets, Ze'ev
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DOUBLE VISION: HOW THE PRESS DISTORTS AMERICA'S VIEW OF THE MIDDLE EAST
Ze'ev Chafets/William Morrow/$16.95
Daniel Pipes
It is a matter of record that Israel is the subject of far more political and...
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Son of the Morning Star
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Connell, Evan S.
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SON OF THE MORNING STAR
Evan S. Connell/North Point Press/$20.00
William H. Nolte
In Son of the Morning Star Evan Con-nell has given us an utterly fascinating account of what led up to, occurred at,...
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The Great American Saloon Series/The Lion and Compass
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Stein, Benjamin J.
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THE GREAT AMERICAN SALOON SERIES
THE LION AND COMPASS
by Benjamin J. Stein
To begin at the beginning, try not to think about the tasteless dill sauce, the cooked-out vegetables, or the nondescript...
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Current Wisdom
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Jackasses, Assorted
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CURRENT WISDOM
Salt Lake Tribune
A cri de coeur from what sounds very much like a member of the Union of Concerned Scientists, alone and shivering in the Salt Lake Gulag: As displaced people from...
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