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Vol. 018 Issue 009 (September 1 1985)
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••Cover Page••
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The Continuing Crisis
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THE CONTINUING CRISIS It has not been a benign summer. The Republic broils under an unkind sun, and certain areas of the West and of Canada have actually burst into flame. The citizenry's serenity...
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Correspondence
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CORRESPONDENCE Poisoned Ivy I was disturbed to read Malcolm Gladwell's scurrilous review of Ben Hart's Poisoned Ivy in the May issue of The American Spectator. Mr. Gladwell completely...
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Editorials/Grumbles on the Right/Death in Obscurity
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Tyrrell, R. Emmett Jr.
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EDITORIALS GRUMBLES ON THE RIGHT by R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. The historically inclined will recall that it was at about this time in Ronald Reagan's first term when conservatives began complaining...
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Capitol Ideas/Cowardly Lions
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Bethell, Tom
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CAPITOL IDEAS COWARDLY LIONS by Tom Bethell The other day I met Comandante Zero in Congressman Armey's office in the Cannon Office Building. (How about that for a militaristic lead?) Dick Armey,...
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Prime Time Terror
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Morrison, Micah
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Micah Morrison PRIME TIME TERROR Double-dealing in Washington, dismay in Jerusalem, business as usual in Beirut. The contour of the story is, of course, still familiar: the hijacking of TWA...
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Afghanistan Goes Mongolian
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Puddington, Arch
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Arch Puddington AFGHANISTAN GOES MONGOLIAN What a bear hug can do. At the time of the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, many Western observers were quick to draw a parallel to the American...
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Remembering the Kingfish
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Gold, Vic
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Vic Gold REMEMBERING THE KINGFISH Why weep or slumber, America? Who built the highway to Baton Rouge? Who put up the hospital and built your schools? Who looks after shit-kickers like you? The...
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The Last Stalinist
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Evanier, David
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David Evanier THE LAST STALINIST A New York story. Sylvia Pollack would only meet Daniel Greenwald at Nutburger or at Communist party headquarters on 23rd Street. A few months before, she had...
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Presswatch/Brainwashers
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O'Sullivan, John
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PRESSWATCH BRAINWASHERS by John O'Sullivan Imagine a KGB colonel in the Lubianka-the Soviet equivalent of those brilliant backroom dons who supposedly thought up clever wheezes for British...
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The Nation's Pulse/The New New South
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Barnes, John A.
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THE NATION'S PULSE THE NEW NEW SOUTH by John A. Barnes Party realignment, the major goal that has eluded Republicans for the past seventeen years, is once again a gleam in their eye. From the...
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The Talkies/Kidstuff
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Podhoretz, John
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THE TALKIES KIDSTUFF by John Podhoretz There are few people in the world worth envying. Steven Spielberg is one of them. He made his professional debut as a television director in 1969, when he...
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European Document/Lech in Lotusland
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McGurn, William
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EUROPEAN DOCUMENT LECH IN LOTUSLAND by William McGurn Gdansk airport: Even the planes are run-down. In Poland for less than two hours, and already General Jaruzelski's state airline has managed...
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Nicaragua
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Muravchik, Joshua
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BOOK REVIEWS NICARAGUA: A REVOLUTION IN THE FAMILY Shirley Christian/Random House/$19.95 Joshua Muravchik Although Nicaragua has been the most important foreign policy issue for the United...
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A Vietcong Memoir
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Bering-Jensen, Henrik
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A VIETCONG MEMOIR: AN INSIDE ACCOUNT OF THE VIETNAM WAR AND ITS AFTERMATH Truong Nhu Tang, with David Chanoff and Doan Van Toai/ Harcourt Brace Jovanovich/$17.95 Henrik Bering-Jensen On September...
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How to Make Nuclear Weapons Obsolete
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O'Lessker, Karl
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HOW TO MAKE NUCLEAR WEAPONS OBSOLETE Robert Jastrow/Little, Brown/$15.95 Karl O'Lessker A striking feature of the great Star Wars debate is the difference in tone between supporters and opponents...
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The Lost Soul of American Politics
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Cranston, Maurice
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THE LOST SOUL OF AMERICAN POLITICS John P. Diggins/Basic Books/$23.95 Maurice Cranston Teaching history in American schools has a very different impact from teaching history in European schools....
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The Image and Other Stories
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Grossman, Anita Susan
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THE IMAGE AND OTHER STORIES Isaac Bashevis Singer/Farrar, Straus & Giroux/$17.95 Anita Susan Grossman Isaac Bashevis Singer's latest book of stories shows that the old master, at eighty-one, has...
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Tennessee
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Mallon, Thomas
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TENNESSEE: CRY OF THE HEART Dotson Rader/Doubleday/$ 16.95 THE KINDNESS OF STRANGERS: THE LIFE OF TENNESSEE WILLIAMS Donald Spoto/Little, Brown/$19.95 Thomas Mallon When writing an umbrella...
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How Can We Know?
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Barnes, Fred
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HOW CAN WE KNOW? AN ESSAY ON THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION A.N. Wilson/Atheneum/$ 10.95 Fred Barnes Given all the media jabber about a resurgence of religion and the revival of traditional values, you'd...
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The Great American Saloon Series/The Old Town Bar
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Brookhiser, Richard
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THE GREAT AMERICAN SALOON SERIES THE OLD TOWN BAR by Richard Brookhiser My neighborhood is changing. That is what New York magazine says, so it must be so. The agents of transformation there as...
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Current Wisdom
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Jackasses, Assorted
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CURRENT WISDOM The Great Books Series In an anthology indispensable to fevered brows, the happily nulliparous Miss Erica Jong improves upon The Rape of the Lock: Castration of the Pen The pen is...
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