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Vol. 021 Issue 001 (January 1 1988)
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The Continuing Crisis
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THE CONTINUING CRISIS •November exits after a dispendious display of theater from the White House and from Capitol Hill. Both are pretending that there is a huge lust in America to cut the deficit....
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Correspondence
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CORRESPONDENCE Never Too Late I want to add my congratulations to those you've already received on the 20th anniversary of The American Spectator. It's well worth recalling that two decades ago,...
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Editorials/Bad Characters/Who's to Blame'?
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Tyrrell, R. Emmett Jr.
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EDITORIALS BAD CHARACTERS by R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. W hen the pundits and the politicos begin to conjure with what in 1987 they are pleased to call the character issue, tune them out. Once again...
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Capitol Ideas/Dole's Bitter Medicine
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Bethell, Tom
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CAPITOL IDEAS DOLE'S BITTER MEDICINE T he correlation of political forces is I of exceptional interest as we enter the election year. The October stock market drop inexplicably gave the Beltway...
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O Ye of Little Faith
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Brooks, David
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THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR 1988 VOL. 21, NO. 1 / JANUARY David Brooks 0 YE OF LITTLE FAITH Behind the pagan response to Black Monday. 44T he economy will never be the same," a New York Times...
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Danny Ortega's American Janissaries
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Brock, David
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David Brock DANNY ORTEGA'S AMERICAN JANISSARIES They're probably his best defense against a U.S. invasion. Managua T he first week of November was a big one for world Communism, as Messrs....
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Harnessing the Energy of the Former New Left
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Morrison, Micah
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Micah Morrison HARNESSING THE ENERGY OF THE FORMER NEW LEFT David Horowitz and Peter Collier should hold their next conference in Moscow. rr his is a tale of two conferences. 1 From the moment I...
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Cuomo for President?
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Tucker, William
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William Tucker CUOMO FOR PRESIDENT? What it will mean if this family man makes it official. It was a few days before the 1982 New York gubernatorial elections. Lieutenant governor Mario Cuomo...
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TAS's 20th Anniversary Gala
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TA S'S TWENTIETH ANNIVERSARY GALA Midge Decter, executive director of the Committee for the Free World, addresses the throng. Master of Ceremonies John Gavin greets Vice President Bush as the...
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The Nation's Pulse/Career Women Lash Out
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Podhoretz, John
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THE NATION'S PULSE CAREER WOMEN LASH OUT by John Podhoretz T . C. Wiatt and Alex Forrest are two J obsessive, intimidating, and respected careerists in their thirties. They work long hours,...
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Spectator's Journal/The Lady Had Flair
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Buckley, Priscilla L.
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SPECTATOR'S JOURNAL THE LADY HAD FLAIR W hat is there to say about Clare Boothe Luce that hasn't been said better by Wilfrid Sheed in his sensitive, illuminating memoir of a few seasons back. Her...
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Eminentoes/Garrison Keillor's Faux Peas
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Kristol, Elizabeth
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EMINENTOES GARRISON KEILLOR'S FAUX PEAS ou know how it is: people find out you're shy, and next thing you know they want to interview you, have you sponsor their products, and put you on talk...
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Presswatch/Self-Deceptions
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Ledeen, Michael
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PRESSWATCH SELF-DECEPTIONS by Michael Ledeen rr he greatest triumph of Soviet disinformation is undoubtedly the spread of "moral equivalence," according to which there is no substantial...
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The Talkies/Maurice
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Bawer, Bruce
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THE TALKIES MAURICE by Bruce Bawer rr he reviews are exultant. Even a 1 reader who ordinarily casts a jaundiced eye upon the critical encomia quoted in movie advertisements cannot help but be...
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Australia Turns 200: A special review of Robert Hughes's The Fatal Shore and Ross Terrill's The Australians
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McGurn, William
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BOOK REVIEWS It is therefore ordered and adjudged by this Court, that you be transported upon the seas beyond the seas, to such place as His Majesty, by the advice of his Privy Council, shall think...
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The Bonfire of the Vanities
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Wolfe, Tom
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It is Tom Wolfe'striumph in this, his first, novel to spend 659 pages on a tale that could be told in three hundred fewer and not only get away with it, but make the reader realize all he's been...
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Freedom
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Safire, William
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W illiam Safire has written a wise and often absorbing account of the first two years of the Civil War, from the First Manassas (Bull Run) defeat of the Union Army in 1861, to the Emancipation...
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Hemingway
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Lynn, Kenneth S.
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veryone knows Ernest Hemingway. Or, at least, they think they do. It is hardly possible not to, for Hemingway is one of the inescapable presences of our century, a combative, swaggering,...
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Taking the Constitution Seriously
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Berns, Walter
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W alter Berns writes in the preface to this book that he intends it to be "an explanation of sorts" of the Constitution. To his credit, he does not try to explain the Constitution by referring...
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Plant Closings
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O'Connell, Francis A.
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Economists who have analyzed organized labor's crusade for plant closing legislation over the past fifteen-odd years generally agree that, in the words of Richard McKenzie of Clemson, it is a "bad...
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Current Wisdom
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Jackasses, Assorted
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CURRENT WISDOM American Historical Association Lively and exigent panel discussions as promulgated in program notes booming the winter meeting of a revered band of scholars leavened by an...
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