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Vol. 018 Issue 006 (June 1 1985)
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The Continuing Crisis
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THE CONTINUING CRISIS • April was a pleasant enough month. The weather was unseasonably mild, and baseball season began. All that dampened a growing sense of festival was the sudden and seemingly...
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Correspondence
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CORRESPONDENCE Corrections I would like to apologize to all American Spectator readers for the foolish error that led me to represent New York City as paying $50,000 per person in taking care of...
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Editorials/The Weird War/On to the Cape of Good Hope
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Tyrrell, R. Emmett Jr.
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EDITORIALS THE WEIRD WAR April marked the tenth anniversary of South Vietnam's liberation or fall. It depends on one's point of view. As all the world knows, the Vietnam war was controversial and,...
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Capitol Ideas/Star Wars over NATO
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Bethell, Tom
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CAPITOL IDEAS STAR WARS OVER NATO by Tom Bethell Imagine a country with a large, heavily armed band of robbers. So ruthless are they that after prolonged debate the citizens conclude that it would...
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The Shrinking of America
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Yale; Kramer, Rita
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Yale and Rita Kramer THE SHRINKING OF AMERICA Dr. Lifton and his colleagues would like to correct your political thoughts. We were, of course, upset when we received the announcement. The very...
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Old South Africa
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Stevenson, Matthew
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Matthew Stevenson OLD SOUTH AFRICA Will its example be Brown v. Board of Education or Sherman's march to the sea? Johannesburg could be an American city. The Carlton Centre, one of the better...
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Bold Words from China
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London, Miriam
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Miriam London BOLD WORDS FROM CHINA When the Party's top theoretical organ advocates freedom of discussion, every writer feels uneasy and on guard. Almost everyone, liberal and conservative,...
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Bradford and Jaffa: Once More on Lincoln
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Bradford, Harry V. Jaffa, with a reply by Melvin E.
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Harry V. Jaffa, with a reply by Melvin E. Bradford BRADFORD AND JAFFA: ONCE MORE ON LINCOLN Two eminent Lincoln scholars disagree on the legacy of Father Abraham. May good friend, Professor...
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Constitutional Opinions/Th.e Meese that Roars
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Kristol, William
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CONSTITUTIONAL OPINIONS THE MEESE THAT ROARS by William Kristol "What does not kill me makes me stronger." This thought of Nietzsche's-introduced into American political discourse by (who else?)...
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Presswatch/Bad News Bearers
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O'Sullivan, John
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PRESSWATCH BAD NEWS BEARERS by John O'Sullivan What am I doing in this space? Well, the fact is that Ariel Sharon came too expensive. Also, there were fears that if he should be installed in...
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The Nation's Pulse/Hug Your Kid, Go to Jail
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Kirp, David L.
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THE NATION'S PULSE HUG YOUR KID, GO TO JAIL by David L. Kirp Until he was arrested last August, charged with having sexually molested a nine-year-old girl, Brian Taugher had never been in trouble...
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Selected Letters of Edmund Burke / Thomas Jefferson: Writings
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Mansfield, Harvey C. Jr.; Peterson, Merrill D.
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BOOK REVIEWS CONSERVATIVE DILEMMAS SELECTED LETTERS OF EDMUND BURKE Edited by Harvey C. Mansfield, Jr./University of Chicago Press/$16.95 THOMAS JEFFERSON: WRITINGS Edited by Merrill D....
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Alien Powers: The Pure Theory of Ideology
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Minogue, Kenneth
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ALIEN POWERS: THE PURE THEORY OF IDEOLOGY Kenneth Minogue/St. Martin's Press/$27.50 Maurice Cranston Marx once said that the purpose of philosophy should be to transform the world rather than to...
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On the Campaign Trail
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Shields, Mark
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ON THE CAMPAIGN TRAIL Mark Shields/Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill/$5.95, paper Fred Barnes Some of you out there may not know Mark Shields. So let me introduce him. He is a former political...
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Plausible Prejudices: Essays on American Writing
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Epstein, Joseph
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PLAUSIBLE PREJUDICES: ESSAYS ON AMERICAN WRITING Joseph Epstein/W.W. Norton/$17.95 George Sim Johnston Viewing the overproduction of books and pamphlets in his own day, Samuel Johnson complained...
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See You Later Alligator
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Buckley, William E Jr.
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SEE YOU LATER ALLIGATOR William F. Buckley, Jr./Doubleday/$15.95 Cynthia Grenier Who would have thought that Che Guevara would steal the show from William F. Buckley, Jr.'s nominal hero,...
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Famous Financial Fiascos
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Train, John
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FAMOUS FINANCIAL FIASCOS John Train/Clarkson N. Potter-Crown/$8.95 Aram Bakshian, Jr. As that great and good student of human nature, W.C. Fields, so often reminded us, "You can't cheat an honest...
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Spectator's Journal/implantations
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Martinez, Mary Ball
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SPECTATOR'S JOURNAL IMPLANTATIONS by Mary Ball Martinez A he Guatemalan Army of the Poor, known as the EGP and now happily extinct, was the invention of university-educated young men from...
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Current Wisdom
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Jackasses, Assorted
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CURRENT WISDOM Los Angeles Times A soap box rises on the correspondence page of the Times of the Golden State, and behold the beauty: We are not numbers. We are not projections. We are not...
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