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IssueVol. 019 Issue 012 (December 1 1986)
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Paid articleThe Continuing Crisis
The Continuing Crisis October fades into dusty memory, and with it the 99th Congress of the United States. And into history Mr. Tip O'Neill—Speaker of the House, steadfast guardian of the Eighth District...
Paid articleCorrespondence
Correspondence - Some Have It To live in Los Angeles, work in the movie business, and read Ben Stein on both, is to be compelled to believe in parallel universes. Stein writes so well, is so widely...
Paid articleEditorials/Reagan Remote/Faith in the System
Tyrrell, R. Emmett Jr.
"Editorials/Reagan Remote/Faith in the System" Historians set out to define the epochs of the past. Successful statesmen define the present. Ronald Reagan has made historic changes in policy and contributed to a vast change in the national...
Paid articleCapitol Ideas/Cross Currents
Bethell, Tom
"Capitol Ideas/Cross Currents" I was at JFK Airport en route to a London conference on British taxation when news of the successful conclusion to the Reykjavik summit came over the airwaves. A television screen in the...
Paid articleThe Great Fear of 1986 In which Winston Churchill and Dagwood Bumstead meet the King of the Slave Traders.
Griffin, Bryan F.
"The Great Fear of 1986 In which Winston Churchill and Dagwood Bumstead meet the King of the Slave Traders." You are all familiar, are you not, with the Five Telltale Symptoms of Diabetes? We won't ask for a show of hands, this time, but if there are any offensively healthy Americans in the room who...
Paid articleExecution Day in Zhengzhou Lucky eyes under Deng Xiaoping.
Da, Liu Fong; Creger, John
"Execution Day in Zhengzhou Lucky eyes under Deng Xiaoping." Since Mao's death in 1976, Deng Xiaoping's relatively moderate policies of steady modernization, relaxed state control over production, and individual initiative have brought China to the...
Paid articleIn Search of the Lost Messiah Bloody and abandoned in Lebanon.
Morrison, Micah
"In Search of the Lost Messiah Bloody and abandoned in Lebanon." Lebanon has become for us a kind of empty parable about endless violence, a morality play with no moral, no message. It is a feudal land, an idea of a nation imposed upon reluctant lords and...
Paid articleBooks for Christmas Holiday gift suggestions from some of our favorite readers and writers.
MORTIMER J. ABLER I have two sets of recommendations of books for people to use and read. The first set consists of guidebooks to reading itself. Here there are three items: (1) The Harvard...
Paid articleThe Public Policy/SDI Deployment and History
Fossedal, Gregory A.
"The Public Policy/SDI Deployment and History" Sometime in the coming months, Ronald Reagan will decide whether or not the United States will build early layers of a strategic defense, or Star Wars shield, against nuclear weapons, within...
Paid articlePresswatch/Woodward Disinforms
Ledeen, Michael
"Presswatch/Woodward Disinforms" Analyzing the "disinformation" story—launched by that master of the subject, Bob Woodward, in the Washington Post on October 2—is a daunting undertaking. By now, the basic premise of Woodward's...
Paid articleThe Talkies/Weirdos
Bawer, Bruce
"The Talkies/Weirdos" When I look back now, it seems to me that I spent countless hours at college in the mid-seventies sitting in a dormitory room and listening to my friends extol the virtues of a movie called...
Paid articleSpectator's Journal/Swan Song for Hong Kong
Brookhiser, Richard
"Spectator's Journal/Swan Song for Hong Kong" Britain's 99-year lease to Hong Kong expires in 1997, at which time the Crown Colony will become part of Communist China. I can now face the prospect with equanimity— for I have a tailor, Ascot...
Paid articleThe Great American Saloon Series/Rick's Café Américain
McGurn, William
"The Great American Saloon Series/Rick's Café Américain" Brussels In a continent where a fine Pouilly Fume might grace even a newspaperman's dinner table, complaints about deprivations here are not likely to fall on sympathetic ears at home. Yet...
Paid articleAgainst All Hope, by Armando Valladares
Bukovsky, Vladimir
Books in Review - "Against All Hope, by Armando Valladares" A few years ago in Caracas, Venezuela, as part of our activities with Resistance International, I attended a series of hearings with Armando Valladares on political repression in Nicaragua....
Paid articleJohn Maynard Keynes: Hopes Betrayed, 1883-1920, by Robert Skidelsky
Welch, Colin
Books in Review - "John Maynard Keynes: Hopes Betrayed, 1883-1920, by Robert Skidelsky" Sir Roy Harrod's Life of Bfeynes was published in 1951. It omitted all reference to Keynes's homosexuality. Why was that? In his fascinating introduction to his own fascinating life of Keynes,...
Paid articleWashington Bedtime Stories, by Herbert Stein
Ulmer, Melville J.
Books in Review - "Washington Bedtime Stories, by Herbert Stein" Collections of previously published essays are by definition retreads and justify resurrection between hard covers only to preserve the enduringly worthy—literary gems, classics of humor,...
Paid articleErnie's War: The Best of Ernie Pyle's World War II Dispatches, edited by David Nichols
Owen, Kent
Books in Review - "Ernie's War: The Best of Ernie Pyle's World War II Dispatches, edited by David Nichols" stances and, as such, liked or disliked them according to whatever set of prejudices suited him best. This approach to life may not be what Jesus had in mind, but there is something to be said...
Paid articleThe Manly Art: Bare-Knuckle Prize Fighting in America, by Elliott J. Gorn
Schaub, Diana
Books in Review - "The Manly Art: Bare-Knuckle Prize Fighting in America, by Elliott J. Gorn" With what appears to be academic pugnacity, Elliott J. Gorn asserts in the preface to The Manly Art: Bare-Knuckle Prize Fighting in America that "This is 'men's history.' " Gorn, however, is...
Paid articleThe Catholic Classics, by Dinesh D'Souza
Scully, Michael A.
Books in Review - "The Catholic Classics, by Dinesh D'Souza" In his book The Making of the Middle Ages (1953), R. W. Southern quotes the account of an eleventhcentury French abbot concerning Scots come to France to assemble for the first Crusade. Not...
Paid articleBrideshead Benighted and The Diaries of Auberon Waugh, by Auberon Waugh
Teachout, Terry
Books in Review - "Brideshead Benighted and The Diaries of Auberon Waugh, by Auberon Waugh" Auberon Waugh, editor of the Literary Review, has given considerable thought to "the ethics of gossip, scandalmongering and personal abuse" and has decided that "for the most part they are...
Paid articleThe Washington Spectator
Nathan, George Jean
"The Washington Spectator" Marty Peretz, only half-jokingly, called it the best lunch ever at the liberal New Republic, even though both sides fought to a standstill, the hosts insisting that the guest should and will...
Paid articleIndex for Volume 19
"Index for Volume 19" The index includes all articles published in The American Spectator/row January 1986 through December 1986. In the listings, the Roman numeral refers to the number of the issue, while the Arabic...
Paid articleCurrent Wisdom
Jackasses, Assorted
"Current Wisdom" The Great Books Series The Rev. Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., whom the redoubtable National Review felicitously designated in its March 17, 1978 issue as "the Professor of Darkness," makes...
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