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Vol. 021 Issue 010 (October 1 1988)
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••Cover Page••
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••Contents••
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The Continuing Crisis
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THE CONTINUING CRISIS •August, temperatures remained steamy, and Mikhail Dukakis (though he prefers to go by "Mike") developed a tropical case of sex fever. First, in Laguna Beach, California, he...
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Correspondence/Letters from Charlton Heston, Thomas Sowell, Sidney Hook, and others
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CORRESPONDENCE (continued from page 7) consumption." What is even more disturbing is that so many "conservatives" now embrace these same notions and brag about our "advance" down this road to...
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Editorials/The Art of Verbal Communication/Coach of a Lifetime
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Tyrrell, R. Emmett Jr.
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EDITORIALS THE ART OF VERBAL COMMUNICATION A s the shadows of summer lengthen, does Vice President George Bush ever wonder why Americans seem so nonchalant about his patriotic offer of four more...
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Capitol Ideas/New Orleans Spells No Real News
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Bethell, Tom
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CAPITOL IDEAS NEW ORLEANS SPELLS NO REAL NEWS by Tom Bethell T he judges were unanimous. The writer managed to smuggle out a tran- the publisher continued. In the cor- with the observation that,...
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Bayou Billy, Dutch, and the Duke
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Kleck, David
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THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR VOL. 21, NO. 10 / OCTOBER 1988 David Kieck BAYOU BILLY, DUTCH, AND THE DUKE Michael Dukakis picks up in the Big Easy where Gary Hart left off. Before it all blew up with...
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Capital Takes to Space
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Daniel, J. Anthony
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J. Anthony Daniel CAPITAL TAKES TO SPACE There's money to be made—if you can get around NASA and its empty promises. O nly two forces, for the most "My personal view," said Carl Sagan backs, many...
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Allan Bloom and the Critics
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Dannhauser, Werner J.
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Werner J. Dannhauser ALLAN BLOOM AND THE CRITICS In the eighteen months since the release of The Closing of the American Mind, reactions to the book have increasingly come to confirm its...
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Black and White Mischief in Chicago
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Valiunas, Algis
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Algis Valiunas BLACK AND WHITE MISCHIEF IN CHICAGO Only lunatics can survive in this asylum. Wr he Republican Party killed 1. Robert Kennedy so they could raise the price of everything. It had...
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The Campaign Spectator/Wanna Party?
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Ferguson, Andrew
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THE CAMPAIGN SPECTATOR WANNA PARTY? by Andrew Ferguson T he Saturday night before the Re- 1 publican National Convention opened, I arrived in New Orleans, dropped my bags at the hotel, and set off...
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The Nation's Pulse/Letter from Hollywood
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Stein, Benjamin J.
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THE NATION'S PULSE LETTER FROM HOLLYWOOD by Benjamin J. Stein y ou probably wonder what I've been up to since you last heard from me. I'll make it easy for you. You won't have to guess. I'll...
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The Business of America/Nagging Debtors
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Stelzer, Irwin M.
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THE BUSINESS OF AMERICA NAGGING DEBTORS by Irwin M. Stelzer T his past summer marked the 1 sixth anniversary of what is misleadingly called "the Third World debt crisis." In August 1982, Mexico,...
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European Document/Gorbo, Pugo, and a Captive Nation
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Kalnins, Ojars
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EUROPEAN DOCUMENT GORBO, PUGO, AND A CAPTIVE NATION Ask a party boss in Soviet-ruled Latvia what he thinks of Gorbachev's reforms, and like the dutiful puppet he's learned to be, he'll publicly...
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Presswatch/The New McCarthyism
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Ledeen, Michael
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PRESSWATCH THE NEW McCARTHYISM by Michael Ledeen T he great evil of McCarthyism was 1 the political witchhunt, in which innocent people were smeared and ruined on the basis of rumor and innuendo...
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The Talkies/The Stately Homes of England-and America
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Bawer, Bruce
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THE TALKIES THE STATELY HOMES OF ENGLAND AND AMERICA by Bruce Bawer W ant a foolproof recipe for a Picture nod a few years back to the visit, it is less sexual attraction than a speech on farm...
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In Search of J D. Salinger
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Hamilton, Ian
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BOOK REVIEWS Pascal complained that the whole problem with man is that he cannot sit quietly by himself in a room. There is a modern corollary: the newspaper-reading public cannot tolerate a...
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Alice Roosevelt Longworth
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Felsenthal, Carol
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Get Kate Hepburn on Two. Here is a story tailor-made for her shrill, spinsterish Brahmin persona. It is a tale with boffo box-office potential, involving deliciously colorful celebrities,...
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Peace and Revolution
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Lewy, Guenter
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I n a small jumble of steel and con- 1 crete in the midst of Asia's most dynamic city, Manh Chung Tu waits for a freedom that may never come. Mr. Manh is a Vietnamese in his mid-twenties, one of the...
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The Use and Abuse of Sovietology
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Labedz, Leopold
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Are intellectuals an endangered species? I confess that I'm of two minds about this. Sometimes it seems to me that far from being endangered, intellectuals—particularly those associated with the...
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The Editor, the Bluenose, and the Prostitute
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Bode, Carl
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tacks by banning the April 1926 issue mons to sell a banned copy of The from Boston. It contained an essay by American Mercury to the Reverend journalist Herbert Asbury about a himself. In due...
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John McGraw
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Alexander, Charles C.
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46 JOHN McGRAW Charles C. Alexander/Viking/$18.95 Joe Mysak T he legend of John McGraw sur- how McGraw, who lived baseball, put vived his friends, and it will prob- it. His management style was...
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Current Wisdom
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Jackasses, Assorted
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CURRENT WISDOM Washington Post An understandable slip-up: CORRECTIONS Pol Pot was mistakenly identified as anticommunist in Mary McGrory's column yesterday. The reference should have said the...
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