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IssueVol. 020 Issue 010 (October 1 1987)
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Paid articleThe Continuing Crisis
THE CONTINUING CRISIS •August brought unparalleled exultation to thousands of American Spectator subscribers. They received their monthly volume of Truth a full two weeks early. The August issue...
Paid articleCorrespondence
CORRESPONDENCE Democrats and Communists Re: "Democrat Foreign Policy Scandals," by David Brock, TAS, August 1987. Department of amplification: Rep. Schroeder resigned her association with...
Paid articleEditorials/Is It Liberal Convergence?/Conservatives, Take Heart
Tyrrell, R. Emmett Jr.
CONSERVATIVES, TAKE HEART New York Fellow conservatives and other adepts of humane and normative behavior, take heart. Pay no heed to those popinjays among the intelligentsia who report with...
Paid articleSenator Jello
Barnes, Fred
VOL. 20, NO. 10 / OCTOBER 1987 THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR Fred Barnes SENATOR JELLO The trouble with Paul Trible is that he isn't Dick Cheney. W hen Lt. Colonel Oliver North completed his testimony...
Paid articleArthur Liman's Past
Teti, Dennis
ARTHUR LIMAN'S PAST by Dennis Teti As a senior at Harvard, Arthur Liman wrote a thesis supervised by Samuel P. Huntington (currently President of the American Political Science Association) on the...
Paid articleCruising for a Bruising: The U.S. in the Gulf
Kedourie, Elie
Elie Kedourie CRUISING FOR A BRUISING: THE U.S. IN THE GULF The ayatollahs know what they want—but what do we want? T he downfall of the Shah at the 1 beginning of 1979, the seizure of power by...
Paid articleThe Pro-Life Movement in Disarray
Low, Charlotte
Charlotte Low THE PRO-LIFE MOVEMENT IN DISARRAY Lessons in political ineptitude. rr he hullabaloo over the nomination 1 of Robert Bork to the U.S. Supreme Court is in many respects a referendum...
Paid articleDon't Bank on the World Bank
Oppenheimer, Franz M.
Franz M. Oppenheimer DON'T BANK ON THE WORLD BANK Treacherous waters ahead for a once august institution. If you were born to walk the ground, Remain there; do not fool around. • But very soon...
Paid articleSpectator's Journal/Central America's Hidden Refugees
Burr, Richard E.
SPECTATOR'S JOURNAL CENTRAL AMERICAS HIDDEN REFUGEES F or the past few years, the American public has been inundated with reports about refugees fleeing Central America. The attention has...
Paid articleAmong the Educationaloids/A New. Age Lobby Unrepentant
Finn, Chester E. Jr.
AMONG THE EDUCATIONALOIDS A NEW AGE LOBBY UNREPENTANT ne might well have expected, as leaders of the National Education Association gathered in early July for its 125th annual meeting, that sheer...
Paid articlePresswatch/Hot Times on the Potomac
Ledeen, Michael
PRESSWATCH HOT TIMES ON THE POTOMAC W e are all suffering from withdrawal after the Iran-Contra Committee hearings, which thankfully lasted until the vacation season set in. But those journalists...
Paid articleThe Public Policy/Shall We Register Youth?
Bandow, Doug
THE PUBLIC POLICY SHALL WE REGISTER YOUTH? W hen Jimmy Carter reimposed draft registration following the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, Ronald Reagan was one of the program's severest critics....
Paid articleThe Talkies/Kubrick Goes to War
Bawer, Bruce
THE TALKIES KUBRICK GOES TO WAR N o main title, no establishing shot: at the beginning of Full Metal Jacket Stanley Kubrick takes us straight from a dark screen into the stunningly bright interior...
Paid articleAmong the Intellectualoids/Romancing the Self: Ayn Rand
Owen, Kent
AMONG THE INTELLECTUALOIDS ROMANCING THE SELF: AYN RAND ive years after her death, Ayn Rand's shadow still falls across the landscape of American semi-popular culture—perhaps beyond the length...
Paid articleKatharine the Great
Davis, Deborah
BOOK REVIEWS Some people make great sacrifices to kick the Washington Post. Richard Nixon and Spiro Agnew got in their licks, and look what happened to them. Others have turned themselves into...
Paid articleNixon
Ambrose, Stephen E.
NIXON: THE EDUCATION OF A POLITICIAN, 1913-1962 Stephen E. Ambrose/Simon and Schuster/$22.95 Alonzo L. Hamby W by did we hate him so? It is a question that in retrospect many thoughtful people...
Paid articleOut of Egypt
Hassan, Ihab
I hab Hassan is a distinguished liter- 1 ary critic of American and comparative literature at the Milwaukee campus of the University of Wisconsin. Born in Egypt in 1925, he thought or spoke, until...
Paid articleThe UN: In or Out?
Haag, Ernest van den; Conrad, John P.
THE U.N.: IN OR OUT? Ernest van den Haag and John P. Conrad/Plenum /$19.95 John R. Dunlap Since roughly 1975, when the General Assembly passed its resolution equating Zionism with racism, the...
Paid articleIn Search of Melancholy Baby
Aksyonov, Vassily
All of us long to know how others see us, and Alexis de Tocqueville showed that outsiders are sometimes the most perceptive interpreters of American society. The special attraction of Vassily...
Paid articleTalking About God is Dangerous
Goricheva, Tatiana
Reading the accounts of life in a totalitarian society, you sometimes get the impression—in between bouts of terror—that it's all surrealistic madness. Armando Valladares in Against All Hope'...
Paid articleStorm Over Biology
Davis, Bernard D.
O n April 24, 1987 in Brentwood, California, genetically altered bacteria were released outdoors for the first time. The 2,300 strawberry plants on which they were sprayed had been hastily replanted...
Paid articleThe Waning of Humaneness
Lorenz, Konrad
y ou have to give Konrad Lorenz one thing: He doesn't believe in beating around the bush. The first sentence—and it is a sentence in more ways than one—in his foreword to The Waning of Humaneness...
Paid articleMy Life -in Pictures
Muggeridge, Malcolm
N o, this is not a collection of outtakes and reminiscences from "Masterpiece Theatre" and the like. My Life in Pictures is a photograph album of one of the best-spent lives in British journalism....
Paid articleThe New York Spectator/Monstrous Manners
Irvine, William
THE NEW YORK SPECTATOR MONSTROUS MANNERS by William Irvine I've heard a lot of talk lately about something called The Return to Elegance. It also seems to be known variously as The New...
Paid articleCurrent Wisdom
Jackasses, Assorted
CURRENT WISDOM United States Senate What follow are the contents of a letter that Senator Alan Cranston of the great state of California has been sending with impunity to Kremlinologists through...
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