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Paid articleThe Continuing Crisis
THE CONTINUING CRISIS •March came in like a lamb and left snarling with a gigantic drop in the stock market, a decidedly reactionary Supreme Court decision abundant with the flavors of 1976, and an...
Paid articleCorrespondence
teract ABC's "harsh" treatment of the poor, well-intentioned Soviets. As everyone knows, taking over the U.S. is the farthest thing from their minds. If you don't believe Turner, ask Marshal...
Paid articleEditorials/Spirits of Enterprise/Along Goose Creek
Tyrrell, R Emmett Jr.
ALONG GOOSE CREEK T have now lived in America's Rome 1 for precisely one year. My reference to the ancient capital of the Caesars is facetious. The founders of Washington were smitten by the notion...
Paid articleCapitol Ideas/A Stroll with Sidney Hook
Bethell, Tom
CAPITOL IDEAS A STROLL WITH SIDNEY HOOK by Tom Bethell FT he phrase "sweet reason" took on 1 new meaning for me when I became acquainted with Sidney Hook at the Hoover Institution. He rejoices in...
Paid articlePolitics by Independent Counsel
Rabkin, Jeremy
THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR VOL. 20, NO. 5 / MAY 1987 Jeremy Rabkin POLITICS BY INDEPENDENT COUNSEL What else would you expect in today's constitutional climate? It was a national Congress that de-...
Paid articleThe Real Amerika
Stein, Benjamin J.
Benjamin J. Stein THE REAL AMERIKA The story that ABC bought but didn't sell. Tn the summer of 1980, while I lived .1 in Aspen, Colorado I wrote a treatment for a book. It was to be a novel...
Paid articleThe Real Bulgaria
Puddington, Arch
Arch Puddington THE REAL BULGARIA . . . in which Turks vanish. ne of the ugliest—and most obscure—chapters in the history of Communist Eastern Europe is currently being played out in...
Paid articleThe Nuclear Test Ban Hoax
Isaac, Rael Jean
Rael Jean ] THE NUCLEAR TEST BAN HOAX Brought to you by the NRDC and its Soviet friends. n May 28, 1986 the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), the largest environmental "public interest"...
Paid articleThe Nation's Pulse/Washington Rules
Barnes, Fred
THE NATION'S PULSE WASHINGTON RULES by Fred Barnes Last February, Donald T. Regan was run out of the White House in unimaginably ignominious fashion. His fall, engineered by First Lady Nancy...
Paid articleThe Public Policy/The Democrats' Dilemma
Falcoff, Mark
THE PUBLIC POLICY THE DEMOCRATS' DILEMMA E since the humiliating defeat of .1.: / Jimmy Carter in 1980, the Democrats—through their allies and surrogates in the media—have been announcing their...
Paid articlePresswatch/The Shame of It
Ledeen, Michael
PRESSWATCH THE SHAME OF IT by Michael Ledeen T et us start with a quiet item, buried on page 12 of US. News & World Report in its March 9 edition: White House officials aren't the only ones who...
Paid articleAmong the Constitutionaloids/Party Poopers
Eastland, Terry
AMONG THE CONSTITUTIONALOIDS PARTY POOPERS by Terry Eastland s the Constitution nears its 200th birthday, it is receiving the expected encomia from columnists, lawyers, judges, and others. One...
Paid articleThe Talkies/Sentimental Journeys
Bawer, Bruce
0000••••••••••• ............ ee ..... gnom •0 ......... ........•. o Bo.. THE TALKIES •0 ....... ..... ..... . . . ....... • ••0 e••^• ..6809 SENTIMENTAL JOURNEYS My Sweet Little Village is a...
Paid articleThe Great American Saloon Series/Bobby Short's Cafe Carlyle
Brookhiser, Richard
THE GREAT AMERICAN SALOON SERIES T hough I have lived in New York 1 for going on ten years, I never arrived until a colleague whose tastes in nights out I had formerly associated with Springsteen...
Paid articleSpectator's Journal/The Seychelles Test
Morrison, Micah
SPECTATOR'S JOURNAL THE SEYCHELLES TEST by Micah Morrison n November 29, 1985, a murder in London signaled a new phase in a quiet and largely obscure battle for control of the strategically...
Paid articleLook Homeward
Donald, David Herbert
BOOK REVIEWS Literary greatness is one thing; icon status is another. Consider the major American novelists of the 1920s and thirties. The lives and personalities of Thomas Wolfe, Ernest...
Paid articleUnderstanding Toscanini
Horowitz, Joseph
UNDERSTANDING TOSCANINI: HOW HE BECAME AN AMERICAN CULTURE-GOD AND HELPED CREATE A NEW AUDIENCE FOR OLD MUSIC Joseph Horowitz/Alfred A. Knopf/$30.00 R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. F or over one hundred...
Paid articleWill It Liberate?
Novak, Michael
We give the name of socialism to a political regime in which the ownership of the means of production is removed from individuals and handed over to higher institutions whose concern is the higher...
Paid articleSelling Culture
Silverman, Debora
B of boorish borehunters. J... ) Debora Silverman, whom her publishers identify as a teacher of European cultural history at the University of California in Los Angeles, is one of those unfortunate...
Paid articleLessons
Wang, Dr. An; Linden, Eugene
LESSONS: AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY Dr. An Wang, with Eugene Linden/Addison-Wesley/$17.95 Michael A. Scully T here is a great deal of talk these 1 days about improving the quality of American education....
Paid articleWinston S. Churchill: Road to Victory 19414945
Gilbert, Martin
WINSTON S. CHURCHILL: ROAD TO VICTORY 1941-1945 Martin Gilbert/Houghton Mifflin/$40.00 Spencer Warren S urely the longest biography ever written, Martin Gilbert's magnificent life of Winston...
Paid articleMexico: Chaos on Our Doorstep
Sanders, Sol
W hen the Viet Cong were the world's favorite heroes, and the United States was Amerika-with-a-bigK, it was awfully modish to speak and write about the arrogance of power. A parallel phenomenon was...
Paid articleEinstein's Monsters
Amis, Martin
In the middle of Martin Amis's "po- lemical introduction" to his new book, Einstein's Monsters, sits an account of an argument: he vs. his father, Kingsley Amis, on the subject of nuclear...
Paid articleThe Washington Spectator
Ferguson, Andrew
THE WASHINGTON SPECTATOR Beforehand, everybody thought that the press conference on March 19 was the Most Important Press Conference of the President's Career—and by Everybody Thought, I mean, of...
Paid articleCurrent Wisdom
Jackasses, Assorted
CURRENT WISDOM New York Times Book Review In the scholarly precincts of an esteemed book review, signs of intellectual fireworks with significant consequences to the life of the mind as...
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