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IssueVol. 020 Issue 012 (December 1 1987)
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Paid articleThe Continuing Crisis
THE CONTINUING CRISIS *October slips by as so many Octobers have since this magazine was founded twenty years ago, and Margaret Thatcher greets us from No. 10 Downing Street: "I send you my warm...
Paid articleCorrespondence
CORRESPONDENCE The Kinsley Crack-Up If we offered to meet Soviet concerns (4) I fail to see why Pakistan's efforts what can you do? . . . My name was Of course I ought to resist replying to about...
Paid articleEditorials/Cheers!/Woodward Unveiled/A Grand Lady
Tyrrell, R. Emmett Jr.
WOODWARD UNVEILED After sober reflection, I think we can all agree that there is something obsessive about a reporter who would inveigle his way into the hospital room of a terminally ill patient,...
Paid articleCapitol Ideas/I Hate to Spoil the Party
Bethell, Tom
CAPITOL IDEAS I HATE TO SPOIL THE PARTY by Tom Bethell In a way it's remarkable how little things have changed in the last twenty years. Walk down Haight Street in San Francisco and you sense...
Paid articleThe Great Relearning
Wolfe, Tom
THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR VOL. 20, NO. 12 / DECEMBER 1987 Tom Wolfe THE GREAT RELEARNING The twentieth century is over. T n 1968, in San Francisco, I came across a curious footnote to the...
Paid articleThe Message of the Microcosm
Gilder, George
George Gilder THE MESSAGE OF THE MICROCOSM A computerized world economy does not care about budget deficits or trade imbalances or national borders. 6,1Li isten to the technology," urges Carver...
Paid articleAstonishing Moments
ASTONISHING MOMENTS Distinguished observers select the single most astonishing development of the last twenty years. Hilton Kramer Editor, New Criterion Looking back on the last twenty years,...
Paid articleAmerican in the Year 2007
Howe, Neil
Neil Howe AMERICA IN THE YEAR 2007 We'll be lots older, paying huge taxes, producing less and less, unless . O ver the course of the 1960s, it grew increasingly difficult to talk about the future...
Paid articleLet's Be Honest About Vietnam
Falcoff, Mark
Mark Falcoff LET'S BE HONEST ABOUT VIETNAM If we are to have a foreign policy, liberals and conservatives cannot go on politicizing the war, crying "No more Vietnams!" and hiding behind the Paris...
Paid articleAn Anti-War Memoir
Cohen, Jonathan
AN ANTI WAR MEMOIR The year was 1968 and I dressed able prizes. By the time I reached the for my first anti-war march in a fifth grade and my first protest pink turtleneck shirt,...
Paid articleBooks for Christmas
BOOKS FOR CHRISTMAS An American Spectator tradition continues: Holiday gift suggestions from eminent readers and writers. JOSEPH ALSOP As I grow older, I find myself reading more and...
Paid articleThe Third World/Doomed
O'Rourke, P. J.
R O'Rourke/The Third World DOOMED Lately I've been spending some time in Latin America, the Middle East, Africa, and Asia, absorbing the exotic sights, loud sounds, and great big smells of the...
Paid articleThe Automobile/The Love Affair Continues
YATES, BROCK
Brock Yates/The Automobile THE LOVE AFFAIR CONTINUES Let us take a peek twenty years down the road. But be forewarned; the view is fog-shrouded and the route is laced with unseen hollows and...
Paid articleThe Personal Computer/Hack Away
Hume, Brit
Brit Hume/The Personal Computer '1.1)1 • 1111M11111111111111111111111111C.I.Uki i1 ;•11!. HACK AWAY In the year 2007, it is not hard to im- agine a scene in which children are taken aside by a...
Paid articleThe Press/Our Oldest Profession
Terzian, Philip
Philip Terzian/The Press OUR OLDEST PROFESSION T wo things may be said with absolute certainty about our nation's press in 2007. No fourteen-part series, no op-ed piece, no lead editorial, no...
Paid articleMikhail Gorbachev/A Lonely Visionary
Bukovsky, Vladimir
Vladimir Bukovsky/Mikhail Gorbachev A LONELY VISIONARY s orry to bother you, but haven't we met before? Aren't you . . . what's his name?" "I doubt you'd know my name," he said. "Nobody does...
Paid articleWashington/A World Apart
Barnes, Fred
Fred Barnes/Washington A WORLD APART D uring the Senate Judiciary Committees hearings on Robert Bork, Alan Simpson of Wyoming got to musing about the Saturday Night Massacre. (Come on, come on....
Paid articleThe Supreme Court/The Worst Is Over
Rabkin, Jeremy
Jeremy Rabkin/The Supreme Court SIABHUHHHUHHHUHUMUNHUHHUHUHHHUNUMI lllllllll llllllllllllll HUHUUMUU llllllllllllllllll Iffimumnommumummummumhuumum ll ll ll ll llllll ll llll ll ll ll ll llllllll...
Paid articlePoetry/Another Victim of Creative Writing
Bawer, Bruce
Bruce Bawer/Poetry ANOTHER VICTIM OF CREATIVE WRITING In these United States in 1987, the paramount fact about poetry is that there are more poets—or at least would-be poets—than there are poetry...
Paid articleTerrorism/A New Sense of Professionalism
Ledeen, Michael
Michael Ledeen/Terrorism A NEW SENSE OF PROFESSIONALISM IT es been a banner decade for inter- national terrorism, but some people just aren't satisfied. You'd think both Michael Ledeen, TAS's...
Paid articleThe Sexes/The Endless Chase
Mysak, Joe
Joe Mysak/The Sexes THE ENDLESS CHASE Scene: Two men in a barroom, one married, the other engaged, discussing current events and displaying the failure of memory brought on by the sickness of...
Paid articleTelevision/I'd Rather Not
Teachout, Terry
Terry Teachout/Television I'D RATHER NOT p redicting the future when young is a good way to squirrel away a stiff dose of embarrassment for your old age. One safe prediction about televiTerry...
Paid article2007/The Year in Review
Sobran, Joseph
It was another bad year for liberals, as what had once been called "the New Right" consolidated its domination of American politics. The new tone was perhaps best typified on May 2, when President...
Paid articleBaby Boom Influences
BABY BOOM INFLUENCES Some of our brightest young writers pay tribute to their mentors and describe the milestones in their intellectual coming of age. DAVID ASMAN In the summer of 1969—about a...
Paid articleMencken's Letters
Nolte, William H.
SPECIAL BOOK REVIEW: MENCKEN'S LETTERS oncerning his correspondence, H. L. Mencken had a simple rule: letters were to be answered within 24 hours of receiving them. Whether he always followed that...
Paid articleI Remember Bloomington
I REMEMBER BLOOMINGTON Former residents and employees recall a fabled Midwestern hamlet. The Midwest—specifically Bloomington, Indiana—is built into every joist and lattice of this magazine. It...
Paid articleTwenty Years of Current Wisdom
Jackasses, Assorted
CURRENT WISDOM .44 vv'' 20th 4v 20th Annhersary VV V 4.4* 4Anniversary0 Badger Herald (University of Wisconsin) Cultural notes intoned at a recent University of Wisconsin...
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