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Paid articleThe Continuing Crisis
THE CONTINUING CRISIS 'Mid-term elections attracted an amazing 37.3 percent of the electorate. It is a prodigious figure when one considers the many wholesome activities available to Americans in...
Paid articleCorrespondence
CORRESPONDENCE Count Me Out In his "AIDS: A British View," which appears on page 29 of this issue, Christopher Monckton writes: "Every member of the population should be blood-tested every month...
Paid articleEditorials/Reagan Is Not Reagan/Violence in the Sheets
Tyrrell, R. Emmett Jr.
EDITORIALS REAGAN IS NOT REAGAN In America to be corrupted by bad impulses is relatively commonplace. To be corrupted by good impulses is apparently presidential. Jimmy Carter was brought low by...
Paid articleCapitol Ideas/Mealy Mouths
Bethell, Tom
CAPITOL IDEAS MEALY MOUTHS by Tom Bethell I was going to say something about 1 the Administration's arms-forhostages trading, but by the time this comes out, a month from now, everything will no...
Paid articleWhat Next for the Conservative Movement?
Ferguson, Tim W.
THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR VOL. 20, NO. 1 / JANUARY 1987 Tim W. Ferguson WHAT NEXT FOR THE CONSERVATIVE MOVEMENT? If the numbers aren't there, you'd better plot a new strategy. kay, the election...
Paid articleThe Drift of German Politics
Oppenheimer, Franz M.
Franz M. Oppenheimer THE DRIFT OF GERMAN POLITICS Don't bank on the Social Democrats, not that credit is due the Christian Democrats. Bonn T he tallest and most massive office tower in Frankfurt...
Paid articleLife in Liberated Vietnam
Puddington, Arch
Arch Puddington LIFE IN LIBERATED VIETNAM Who was it that said things would be different? T he nature of Vietnamese Communism was once the subject of angry debate in the United States. Indeed,...
Paid articleThe Great Acid Rain Debate
Ray, Dixy Lee
Dixy Lee Ray THE GREAT ACID RAIN DEBATE No one in Washington (or Ottawa) knows what he's talking about. T he Great Acid Rain Debate has been going on for more than a decade. Public alarm in the...
Paid articleThe Nation's Pulse/Republicans Are Stupid
Barnes, Fred
THE NATION'S PULSE REPUBLICANS ARE STUPID aybe the dumbest thing said about the 1986 election was that the spate of negative ads on television turned off the voters and drove down turnout to the...
Paid articlePresswatch/Heroes and Objects
Ledeen, Michael
PRESSWATCH HEROES AND OBJECTS Heroes of the Month: To Jonathan Yardley for his Washington Post article of October 20 on Secretary of Education William Bennett. "Bennett is the best friend higher...
Paid articleEuropean Document/AIDS: A British View
Monckton, Christopher
EUROPEAN DOCUMENT AIDS: A BRITISH VIEW by Christopher Monckton T he responses of governments and public agencies to the threat to mankind from the rapid spread of AIDS and its related diseases...
Paid articleThe Talkies/Past and Present
Bawer, Bruce
THE TALKIES PAST AND PRESENT omething Wild is a contemptible film, and the obtuse reviewers who have hailed it unequivocally as a delightfully wacky comedy—a "wonderful offbeat movie," as one of...
Paid articleAmong the Intellectualoids/Atwood At Work
Marin, Richard T.
AMONG THE INTELLECTUALOIDS ATWOOD AT WORK lmost a year ago Margaret Atwood's novel The Handmaid's Tale made an inky splash on the front page of the New York Times Book Review. A sign, clear as...
Paid articleThe Great American Saloon Series/The Whee! Generation
Mysak, Joe
THE GREAT AMERICAN SALOON SERIES W here once halibut and striped bass cast baleful eyes toward morning shoppers, there now exists the Serengeti Plain for the youthful sybarites of what the Celtic...
Paid articlePat Nixon
Eisenhower, Julie Nixon
BOOK REVIEWS Iishard to imagine anyone calling her "Babe," or that as a schoolgirl in the 1920s she gave a speech for La Follette instead of Coolidge, but those are facts about Pat Nixon. Her...
Paid articleThe Gentleman from Maryland
Bauman, Robert
T his is not an easy review to write . . . for the reverse of the usual reasons. Most conservative reviewers of ex-Representative Bob Bauman's The Gentleman from Maryland have felt constrained by...
Paid articleThe Media Elite
Lichter, S. Robert; Rothman, Stanley; Lichter, Linda S.
T n an important essay in the May 1 1981 issue of Commentary, the late Joseph Kraft described some critical changes that had affected journalism since the 1960s. Print and television journalists, he...
Paid articleParadise Postponed
Mortimer, John
W hat a relief to be off avant-garde fiction by form-obsessed Hispanics and sit down with a fustian old-fashioned complicatedly yet deftly plotted English novel of the armchairand-slippers sort!...
Paid articleA Summons to Memphis
Taylor, Peter
N ietzsche says somewhere that the only genuine impulse in Wagner's music is the composer's desire to make an impression, and one might extend this observation to most modern art. Certainly, it...
Paid articleLife and Fate
Grossman, Vasily
A lthough Vasily Grossman's Life and Fate is an extremely interesting novel, the story behind its appearance in the West has tended to overshadow most discussions of the book's literary merits....
Paid articleVN
Field, Andrew
lthough born in 1899, Vladimir Nabokov became famous only in 1958 with the American publication of Lolita, after he had written a dozen novels in two languages. Between then and his death in 1977,...
Paid articleThe Washington Spectator
Nathan, George Jean
THE WASHINGTON SPECTATOR As my coryphaeus, Mr. George Will, has noted before, and often, the single most salient feature on the face of modern American political culture is precisely this:...
Paid articleCurrent Wisdom
Jackasses, Assorted
CURRENT WISDOM The Great Books Series Dr. Helen Caldicott nabbed once again with her luminous mind in the gutter: The hideous weapons of mass genocide may be symptoms of several male emotions...
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