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Vol. 019 Issue 001 (January 1 1986)
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The Continuing Crisis
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THE CONTINUING CRISIS *November, and autumn folds into remorseless winter. Ciao to summer-time hopes and autumnal reveries. For some the change is bracing, and for others of delicate disposition it...
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Correspondence
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CORRESPONDENCE : Save Now I was surprised to see in the October issue of The American Spectator, an ad for the English translation of the Soviet propaganda sheet, Pravda. Why pay $630.00...
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Editorials/The President's Ambitions/The Big Chill
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Tyrrell, R. Emmett Jr.
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EDITORIALS ............................................................................................................................................................................. THE...
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Capitol Ideas/No Timing Back
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Bethell, Tom
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some other subject of fascination. After Mr. Jackson there was Madonna. Soon even a Madonna undraped and featured in the pages of our leading porn magazines attracted little attention. Who will stir...
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The MX in an Age of Defense
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Lord, Carnes
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THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR envVOL. 19, NO. 1 / JANUARY...
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Conservative's Guide to the Third World
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Harries, Owen
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Owen Harries A CONSERVATIVE'S GUIDE TO THE THIRD WORLD The term means just what it says. Shiva Naipaul, who died suddenly last August at the age of forty, was the child of an Indian family...
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Stanford's Vendetta Against an Independent Mind
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Mainland, Mary
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............................................................................................................................................................................ Mary...
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Church and State
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Rahe, Paul A.
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truth, and to search for evidence to rehabilitate his star witness. Despite assiduous efforts, which included hiring an investigator in Hong Kong, he managed to detect only one outright lie told by...
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Presswatch/A Tyranny of Experts
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O'Sullivan, John
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........................................................................................................................................................................... PRESSWATCH A TYRANNY OF...
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Among the Environmentaloids/Westway Story
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Tucker, William
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............................................................................................................................................................................. AMONG THE...
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European Document/King Kadar
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Kaplan, Robert D.
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of the respondents said they agreed with the opponents about scrapping the project. It's also revealing that Westway failed despite support from the city's three major newspapers as well as from...
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Eminentoes/The Great White
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Mysak, Joe
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more to the population. The June elections for parliament and local councils were a case in point. More than one candidate was allowed to stand for each seat. In the West, the voting was not taken...
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Worst Book of the Year/Ferraro: My Story
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Barnes, Fred
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WORST BOOK OF THE...
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A Matter of Principle
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Dworkin, Ronald
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Vigilante
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Tucker, William
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"to make their protests in language appropriate to their sense of occasion." Otherwise, free speech would not have "the same value to them as it has to a member of the bourgeois establishment." By...
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The New Direction in American Politics
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Chubb, John E.
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age bracket. At the same time, unemployment and the percentage of the population that was poor both declined. In one of his most perceptive chapters, Tucker does much to discredit the notion that...
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Amusing Ourselves to Death
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Postman, Neil
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grumpy about having to say goodbye to the fine, old, value-laden academic discipline of political philosophy, subsumed decades ago by the far less ambitious political science. The Brookings scholars...
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A Maggot
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Fowles, John
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ing, this might have been a better and more valuable book. But he is a theorizer, and a liberal one at that. Jefferson is his ideal founder, education his all-purpose nostrum for saving America from...
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Stanley and the Women/Russian Hide-and-Seek
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Amis, Kingsley
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STANLEY AND THE WOMEN Kingsley Amis/Summit Books/$14.95 RUSSIAN HIDE-AND-SEEK Kingsley Amis/Penguin (U.K.)/£2.25 Virgil Nemoianu One wonders after reading Stanley and the Women, which has...
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The Washington Spectator
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Nathan, George Jean
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Current Wisdom
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Jackasses, Assorted
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CURRENT WISDOM ............................................................................................................................................................................ Great...
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