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Paid articleThe Continuing Crisis
THE CONTINUING...
Paid articleCorrespondence
caused by Pentagon-inspired experiments. All references to the Pentagon have ended and the Soviets admit that the disease exists in the USSR. Though after using the Soviets' most quantitative...
Paid articleEditorials/Rich Kids/Teddy Withdraws
Tyrrell, R. Emmett Jr.
E D I T O R I A L S RICH KIDS Wherever one looks in this dynamic Republic one sees America's devotion to youth. The staid and austere American of yore has given way to the eternal kid, and...
Paid articleCapitol Ideas/Senator Simpson's Reward
Bethell, Tom
When the Senator alludes to the family's tradition of Jacobinism, he is being somewhat misleading. The radicalism goes back no further than to Robert Kennedy. John F. Kennedy always raised the...
Paid articleThe Second War on Poverty
Fossedal, Gregory A.
THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR VOL. 19, NO 2 / FEBRUARY...
Paid articleParanoia and American Politics
Shaw, Peter
Such are the policies of the post-Murray era. What are the politics? Let us imagine a "second declaration of war," as Merrick Carey calls it, to include something like the following: (1) Gary Hart's...
Paid articleChuck Colson vs. the Fundamentalists
Gladwell, Malcolm
with the national government, is bad news for democracy. What was the source of these sentiments? A 1971 article in Commentary by . . . Daniel Patrick Moynihan. It is tempting to speculate that...
Paid articleMississippi Footprints
Harkness, James
James Harkness MISSISSIPPI FOOTPRINTS Lies they live in Greenwood. Even in an age of Major Motion there are certain small towns people leave mostly on buses: Southern towns, Dixie towns, baking...
Paid articlePresswatch/Honor Rolls
O'Sullivan, John
PRESSWATCH HONOR ROLLS Every morning during the Geneva Summit, the networks had various "experts" grading the respective performances of Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev. Since a news blackout...
Paid articleEminentoes/We're All Moderates Now
Muravchik, Joshua
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Paid articleThe Nation's Pulse/Hurricane Carter's Comeback
Tucker, William
In the great battle twenty odd years earlier for Lenin's mantle, Stalin was the moderate and Trotsky the radical. Trotsky wanted to push the revolution onward and outward without respite, while...
Paid articleSpectator's Journal/Vatican Paralysis
Martínez, Mary Ball
Just before the New Jersey Supreme Court reversed the first conviction, another "trial" took place. Governor Brendan Byrne was petitioned by many people to grant Carter an outright par-don. He asked...
Paid articleEuropean Document/A Balkan Basket Case
Polonski, Feliks
into the Religious Freedom document the age-old Catholic claim to what he calls "a monopoly on truth." The at-tempt was unsuccessful. Now, twenty years later, it could be asked how post-conciliar...
Paid articleThe Great American Saloon Series/Harry's of Century City
Bartholomew, Douglas
International concluded that the human rights situation in Albania has if anything grown worse. But with Hoxha dead many Albanians argue that things have to improve under his successor, 59-year-old...
Paid articleThe Talkies/Lost in Africa
Schonburg, Alexandra
sift through the vast bulk of entries, filtering out the lesser efforts and setting aside twenty-five for a closer reading. The team of Bradbury-Hemingway et al. is then sequestered in Harry's for a...
Paid articleThe Zero-Sum Solution
Thurow, Lester
BOOK REVIEWS THE ZERO-SUM SOLUTION: BUILDING A WORLD-CLASS AMERICAN ECONOMY Lester Thurow/Simon and Schuster/$18.95 Melville J. Ulmer Lester Thurow is clearly the most radiant luminary in this...
Paid articleToxic Terror
Whelan, Elizabeth
I 1 1 I ing power indices, national production per capita of the United States was $14,000 in the most recent year available, against $11,500 for Germany, $11,300 for France, $10,700 for Japan,...
Paid articleThe Politics of the American Civil Liberties Union
Donohue, William A.
Minnesota, was an American. Two worked at the Japanese National Cancer Center Research Institute and one at the Weizmann Institute in Israel. Efron reports that as the reviews came in they combined...
Paid articleAfrica
Ungar, Sanford J.
Perhaps most damning of all is the ACLU's shameful record on the issue of civil liberties in the Soviet Union. Then-fellow traveler Roger Baldwin made two friendly visits to the USSR and published...
Paid articleThe Old Gringo
Fuentes, Carlos
and Uganda, the results were surrealistically lethal. In a few cases the economic forces of the old inertial system provided a temporary period of prosperity, which faded as the distance from the...
Paid articleInto Eternity: The Life of James Jones, American Writer
MacShane, Frank
merely that Harriet Winslow, as she gives up her somewhat tarnished virginity, explores a realm of experience which she has hitherto avoided, but that her encounter with Arroyo represents the...
Paid articleThe Late, Great Pennsylvania Station
Diehl, Lorraine B.
from taking him seriously as a "great" writer. (Norman Mailer once called Jones "the worst writer of prose ever to give intimations of greatness.") And as good as it is, From Here to Eternity is...
Paid articleTable of Contents
McPhee, John
Chapter One is a picture of one of Adolph Weinman's stone maidens, slain at the waist and dumped with trash in the Jersey Meadowlands. The great redeeming irony of the story is that the old station...
Paid articleThe Washington Spectator
Nathan, George Jean
THE WASHINGTON SPECTATOR I was planning to use this space to point out that it is already difficult enough for us Reaganites to brag about "America: Standing Tall"--particularly when the President...
Paid articleCurrent Wisdom
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