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IssueVol. 019 Issue 011 (November 1 1986)
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Paid articleThe Continuing Crisis
•September is no more, nor is the acrimonious question of whether conservatives have a right to participate in public Ufe, for instance in the United States judiciary. Apparently, owing to the...
Paid articleCorrespondence
A Note from the Publisher Knowing that a few American Spectator subscribers have experienced some delay in the processing of their subscriptions, we have fired our computer— or more...
Paid articleEditorials/Hoodwinked/TheFall Season
Tyrrell, R. Emmett Jr.
Across the Great Republic our noble politicos have now auspicated their off-year elections, and on one matter both sides agree: this election lacks a national theme. In 1982 the Democrats made...
Paid articleCapitol Ideas/Asia Watch
Bethell, Tom
From the air Tokyo's outskirts looked as trim and orderly as a sunlit landscape in a child's picture book. It was a long bus ride into the city, past compact, economical pastures. To our left a...
Paid articleGiving Shape to Cultural Conservatism
Finn, Chester E. Jr.
The most important political idea of the mid-1980's is cultural conservatism," wrote Paul Weyrich in the Washington Post in early May. Inasmuch as Weyrich and his colleagues at the Free...
Paid articlePat Robertson's World
D'Souza, Dinesh
For some reason, Pat Robertson has become as much of an embarrassment to the Republican party as Lyndon LaRouche is to the Democrats. In fact, in some ways Robertson is the bigger bogeyman. All...
Paid articleCrimson Cerebrations
O'Rourke, P. J.
I always envied the fellows who went to Harvard. Wouldn't it be swell to be on the Crimson gravy train? I'd probably be a government big shot by now, undermining U.S. foreign poUcy, or a CEO...
Paid articleLegal Services and the Farmer
Isaac, Rael Jean
As farmers in the United States struggle to stay afloat, billions are poured into programs intended to alleviate their plight. But one government program, ironically bruited as a champion of...
Paid articleEminentoes/Powertown Cupcake
Ferguson, Andrew
Ajournalist, said Karl Kraus, is someone who, given time, writes worse. The proposition may be extended thus: Every journalist has a novel inside him, and if he's smart he'll keep it there....
Paid articlePresswatch/Sid's Seizures
Ledeen, Michael
The coveted dunce caps for the month go to Sidney Blumenthal and his hard-working editors at the Washington Post for Blumenthal's characteristic blooper on July 17: "I always feel elated," said...
Paid articleThe Public Policy/The Peace Corps Revival
Stempf, Tory
For nearly twenty years, the Peace Corps was a vivid symbol of American (one can also read Democratic) virtue at work in the world. Yet by 1981 it was moribund. From its heyday in the...
Paid articleEuropean Document/Dreams Before Midnight
Greer, Herb
In late sunmier the British were lulled and then infuriated by two different echoes of the same imperial dream. The sedative was Prince Andrew's wedding to Sarah Ferguson, cheered in the center...
Paid articleThe Talkies/Deceptions
Bawer, Bruce
In Mona Lisa, the English writerdirector Neil Jordan takes a conventional romantic-thriller formula and "classes it up'^—spices the car chases with apocalyptic visions, hints at numerous layers...
Paid articleThe Nations Pulse/Crossover Caution
Schiffren, Lisa
When the national Republican party went hunting for disaffected traditional Democrats to broaden its appeal last year, William Lucas, executive of Wayne County, Michigan, was undeniably the...
Paid articleThe Capitalist Revolution
Berger, Peter
An old tale from the Tktra mountains, whence my grandparents came to America, tells of two chicken thieves who, hearing the farm door slam, hid in the henhouse. When the farmer cocked his rifle...
Paid articleRight Turn
Ferguson, Thomas; Rogers, Joel
Anybody who has worked for a newspaper knows the type. He (sometimes she) marches into the newsroom and asks to speak to a reporter. Got a great story for you, he says. Indeed the story sounds...
Paid articleHow Real Is the Federal Deficit?
Eisner, Robert
Suppose he'd listened to the erudite committee. He would have only found where not to look. —W.H. Auden On February 24, 1983, the flower of the American Establishment published a full page...
Paid articleDemon Box
Kesey, Ken
Is the name of Ken Kesey still one to conjure with among American readers? There was indeed a time when it seemed as if much of our country's future literattue would bear the impress of his...
Paid articleThe Unfinished Journey
Chafe, William H.
Asked by a colleague why he bothers to write history, William Chafe answered, according to his preface, that "history offers a way of defining what mattered in the past, and understanding what...
Paid articleMerry Gentlemen (And One Lady)
Bryan, J. III
Gaiety has lately led to loose talk. Either the good word is commandeered by homophiles, or the experience it names is confused with sillyass frivolity. Clearly, the playful,...
Paid articleDiary of a Yuppie
Auchincloss, Louis
There it is again: the hated "y" word. Yuppie. . . . The word trips from the tongue like a small belch. A glottal stop followed by too many p's—a rude combination. What's worse, it is also a...
Paid articleThe Washington Spectator
Nathan, George Jean
Every now and then, during the Save Chile rally in Dupont Circle last month, one of the soft, pretty fellows who were anchoring the event would bring things to a froth and bellow into the...
Paid articleCurrent Wisdom
Jackasses, Assorted
Pro Wrestling Illustrated A learned epistle in the correspondence section of a respected cultural review, Pro Wrestling Illustrated, the grapplers' Bible: About two months ago, I was watching...
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