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 Vol. 020 Issue 004 (April 1 1987)
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 The Continuing Crisis
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THE CONTINUING CRISIS •February, and the Stock Market hit record highs. The government's index of leading economic indicators scored its largest gain in nearly four years, and a future Pulitzer...
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Correspondence
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Elmer Fudge What has prompted you to change your name at the height of your career (TAS, February 1987)? It may be true, as Joseph Epstein says, that R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. "represents a distinct...
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Editorials/Vaporizers/My Pal Churkin
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Tyrrell, R. Emmett Jr.
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EDITORIALS VAPORIZERS by R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. urs is a very curious political culture. The author Garry Wills heaves up a fantasy on the life of Ronald Reagan, Reagan's America. Innocents at...
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Capitol Ideas/Festive Foolery
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Bethell, Tom
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CAPITOL IDEAS FESTIVE FOOLERY by Tom Bethel! T he great condom hullaballoo suggests that AIDS is perceived as a greater threat to the sexual revolution than to the health of America. If the...
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What the Hell Is Going On? Reagan, Iran, and the Presidency
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Wildaysky, Aaron
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THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR VOL. 20, NO. 4 / APRIL 1987 Aaron Wildaysky, with a reply by James David Barber WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON? REAGAN, IRAN, AND THE PRESIDENCY An exchange between two...
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Chernobyl Anniversary Time
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Cohen, Jonathan
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Jonathan Cohen CHERNOBYL ANNIVERSARY TIME From the fallout you'd never know it wasn't a U.S. reactor that blew. A pril marks the first anniversary of the nuclear accident at Chernobyl Unit 4 in...
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The Declaration of Independence and the Right to Life
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Lehrman, Lewis E.
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Lewis E. Lehrman THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE AND THE RIGHT TO LIFE One leads unmistakably from the other. IT f it might be said that Abraham Lin- coln, the circuit court litigator, was the...
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Spectator's Journal/Latvia's Chautauqua Circuit
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Kalnins, Ojars
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SPECTATOR'S JOURNAL LATVIA'S CHAUTAUQUA CIRCUIT T he moment the Baltic States were swallowed up by the Soviets in 1940, an Iron Curtain of silence descended between occupied Latvia, Lithuania, and...
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The Nation's Pulse/Lichter and the Liberals
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Ferguson, Tim W.
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THE NATION'S PULSE LICHTER AND THE LIBERALS M edia bias is old hat. So much so that my boss frowns on the topic as fare for our paper's editorial page. Yet the subject is still drawing attention,...
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Eminentoes/House Porker
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Brooks, David
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EMINENTOES HOUSE PORKER by David Brooks B ecause God made only one Mis- sissippi River, Jamie Whitten was forced to overrule Him. Though he doesn't make the papers, Whitten is one of the most...
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European Document/More History
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Shlaes, Amity
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EUROPEAN DOCUMENT MORE HISTORY W est German conservatives were thinking big as they moved through the last weeks before the general election on January 25. Their last large-scale campaign rally...
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Presswatch/A Selective Bunch
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Ledeen, Michael
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PRESSWATCH A SELECTIVE BUNCH by Michael Ledeen Woodward Rides Again The Iran/contra story, which by now has left the American public with terminally glazed eyes (they can't remember all the...
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The Talkies/Thespians and Specimens
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Bawer, Bruce
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THE TALKIES THESPIANS AND SPECIMENS O utrageous Fortune (as in "slings and arrows of . .") combines several familiar motifs. It is a clash-oftwo-incongruous-characters movie (like The Odd Couple)...
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The Conservative Pulse/Through a Glass Rightly
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Owen, Kent
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THE CONSERVATIVE PULSE THROUGH A GLASS RIGHTLY Inevitably, there will come a time when the children will have to be told. Was there ever such a thing as conservatism in America, and, if so, what...
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The Harvest of Sorrow
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Conquest, Robert
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BOOK REVIEWS A t the height of the famine emergency in 1985, a few journalists sat around a restaurant table in the Ethiopian capital of Addis Ababa, considering analogies for the food crisis in...
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City of Nets
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Friedrich, Otto
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H ollywood. Few words in the English language—or any other, for that matter—evoke an equal multiplicity of images, all shared in some measure by people in every corner of the world. You see them as...
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Reagan's America
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Wills, Garry
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G arry Wills is a lot like the Ronald Reagan he portrays in this interesting hatchet job. He says Reagan is a con man who believes his own con. "It is clear, from early on, what Reagan's desire...
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Defending Democracy
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Courter, Jim
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R epresentative Jim Courter, a New Jersey Republican beginning his fifth term, is emerging as the House counterpart of Sam Nunn, the resident expert in the Senate on questions of national security....
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After the Nightmare
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Heng, Liang; Shapir, Judith
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AFTER THE NIGHTMARE: A SURVIVOR OF THE CULTURAL REVOLUTION REPORTS ON CHINA TODAY Liang Heng and Judith Shapiro/Alfred A. Knopf/$16.95 Susan Ruel ike China itself, Liang Heng has led a life...
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Dare to Believe
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Lustiger, Jean-Marie Cardinal
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U ntil recently the influence of the Catholic Church in France was on the wane. The Church was split between reactionaries on her right and crypto-Marxists on her left. The vast majority of French...
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Skeptical Engagements
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Crews, Frederick
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I f the major intellectual event of the 1 seventies was the death of old-fashioned political Marxism, the epochal event of the eighties is the disembowelment of Darwin and Freud—the two other...
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The Middle Generation
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Bawer, Bruce
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Iis no wonder many people find the personal histories of the poets Bruce Bawer calls "the Middle Generation" more engrossing than their writings. The pain-filled lives and untimely deaths of...
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The Chicago Spectator/Black Roots
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Ferguson, Andrew
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THE CHICAGO SPECTATOR BLACK ROOTS by Andrew Ferguson E. M. Forster visited Chicago in the late forties, and in a letter to a friend he quickly dismissed that big-shouldered town—that burly city of...
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Current Wisdom
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Jackasses, Assorted
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CURRENT WISDOM Nation When an anti-abortion zealot appears complete with anti-abortion literature in front of the offices of our favorite asylum, Miss Katha Pollitt, a Nation hireling,...
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