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IssueVol. 020 Issue 008 (August 1 1987)
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Paid articleThe Continuing Crisis
THE CONTINUING CRISIS •June, a month best spent abroad where Italian voters deserted the Communist Party and British voters elected one more Thatcherite government. In Britain a resolute 40 percent...
Paid articleCorrespondence
CORRESPONDENCE Michael Ledeen's Foreign Policy Michael Ledeen's essay "The Future of Foreign Policy" (TAS, June 1987) is deeply disturbing in its lack of proper historical understanding of our...
Paid articleEditorials/The Shadows of War/Testing AIDS Patience
Tyrrell, R. Emmett Jr.
EDITORIALS THE SHADOWS OF WAR H istory's great law of unintended consequences may be at work again in our nation's capital. According to my calculations, the congressional hearings into the...
Paid articleCapitol Ideas/Conservative Bird, Liberal Bush
Bethell, Tom
CAPITOL IDEAS CONSERVATIVE BIRD, LIBERAL BUSH The story so far: Republicans keep getting into trouble because they have so little sense of entitlement or legitimacy. They don't understand that...
Paid articleThe Closing of Allan Bloom's Mind
Kesler, Charles R.
THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR VOL. 20, NO. 8 / AUGUST 1987 Charles R. Kesler THE CLOSING OF ALLAN BLOOM'S MIND An instant classic reconsidered. T ike every serious political movement since the...
Paid articleDemocrat Foreign Policy Scandals
Brock, David
David Brock DEMOCRAT FOREIGN POLICY SCANDALS They involve congressmen with peculiar sympathies for Communist causes. F orget, for a moment, that riveting Iran-contra inquisition. Another...
Paid articleThe Fiber Optic Revolution
Gladwell, Malcolm
Malcolm Gladwell THE FIBER OPTIC REVOLUTION In Cerritos; cnlifornia, the future is now. O n February 4 of this year, the future came to Cerritos, California. GTE, the telecommunications giant,...
Paid articleThe Playing Fields of Terrorism
Stevenson, Matthew
Matthew Stevenson THE PLAYING FIELDS OF TERRORISM Welcome to Jordan and the West Bank. T he journey to the frontier between Jordan and Israel began on the runway at the Athens airport, brushed as...
Paid articleThe Nation's Pulse/Plagues and the Common Life
Shiflett, Dave
THE NATION'S PULSE PLAGUES AND THE COMMON LIFE G reat gallopin' trouser snakes, look at them gals!" Those were the days, sitting in the park while your sexual opposites (or otherwise, if you were...
Paid articleThe Public Policy/Clinic Wars
Steichen, Donna
THE PUBLIC POLICY CLINIC WARS Minneapolis T he current hysteria about "children 1 having children" is a dog and pony show: public relations razzle-dazzle concealing a private agenda. In an...
Paid articlePresswatch/Top Secrets
Ledeen, Michael
PRESSWATCH TOP SECRETS by Michael Ledeen C ome years ago, I knew a person who had spent his professional lifetime on Capitol Hill, mostly as a senior staff member of committees investigating...
Paid articleAmong the Intellectualoids/Ladies' Night
Evanier, David
AMONG THE INTELLECTUALOIDS LADIES' NIGHT by David Evanier You are a girl, A revolutionist, a worker.. . Against the ruling swine.. . . . . in the Russia of today Men and women, proud of working...
Paid articleSpectator's Journal/Holy Macau
McGurn, William
SPECTATOR'S JOURNAL HOLY MACAU Macau H igh above the tired banyan trees, ramshackle huts, and decaying colonial mansions that ring the coastline of this little patch of land off mainland China,...
Paid articleThe Talkies/Tough Guys
Bawer, Bruce
THE TALKIES TOUGH GUYS by Bruce Bawer About halfway through The Untouchables, equable T-man Eliot Ness (Kevin Costner), who's involved in a sanguinary war with the bootlegging empire of_ Al Capone...
Paid articleEverything to Gain
Jimmy; Carter, Rosalynn
BOOK REVIEWS Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter, who used to be employed as a live-in couple in Washington, have written a book. Actually, it's more than a book. Around my house Everything to Gain has...
Paid articleA History of the Jews
Johnson, Paul
In his great work, Culture and Anar- chy, the Victorian poet and essayist, Matthew Arnold, drew a famous distinction between "Hebraism" and "Hellenism." Hebraism he identified with strictness of...
Paid articleBehind the Front Page
Broder, David S.
David Broder of the Washington Post is the dean of American political reporters, but readers who pick up this book out of an interest in politics will be disappointed. Though most of its anecdotes...
Paid articleArmed Truce
Thomas, Hugh
The indefatigable Hugh Thomas! How other to characterize the author of this blockbuster of a book about the Cold War, a picture of the world in early 1946? It is the eighth book Thomas has published...
Paid articleRacing Through Paradise
Buckley, William F. Jr.
The publisher is calling Racing Through Paradise the "third entry in Bill Buckley's now classic sailing trilogy." Which shows confidence, if not outright wishfulness. There is every chance that this...
Paid articleDon't Blame the Indians
Williams, Ted
Author Ted Williams is a gifted writer (Audubon, Gray's Sporting Journal, Smithsonian) with a passionate commitment to the American outdoors and almost every creature in our wild native American...
Paid articleThe Renewal of Literature
Poirier, Richard
rr wentieth-century critics and read-1 ers have largely consigned Ralph Waldo Emerson to a literary vacuum. Bring up the name and you'll evoke no more than vaguely unpleasant memories of sitting in...
Paid articleMother Angelica's Answers, Not Promises
Angelica, Mother M.; Allison, Christine
T his is a tough time to be spreading 1 the Word of God on television. But if you're in the racket, it helps to be a cloistered nun. Take Mother Angelica, founder of Our Lady of the Angels Monastery...
Paid articleThe Washington Spectator/New Talent
Ferguson, Andrew
THE WASHINGTON SPECTATOR NEW TALENT Last month, while gallery-hopping through the Dupont Circle New Talent Exhibition, I noticed that most dealers distributed a paragraph or two about the works on...
Paid articleCurrent Wisdom
Jackasses, Assorted
CURRENT WISDOM Washington Post Book World In the correspondence pages of a learned book review, the grisly sound of a late twentieth-century Renaissance Man and Mr. Samuel Lipman's measured...
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