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Vol. 021 Issue 002 (February 1 1988)
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••Cover Page••
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The Continuing Crisis
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THE CONTINUING CRISIS •Month chases month and suddenly 1987 is a cadaver. December has expired, but not without Campaign '88 getting the Candidate of Ideas back into the race. On December 15 the...
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Correspondence
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CORRESPONDENCE Elie Kedourie Replies As Mark M. Jilka rightly says (Correspondence, TAS, January 1988) in response to my October article "Cruising for a Bruising: The U.S. in the Gulf": "one of...
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Editorials / With Ron after Gorbo / A Message form Miranda
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Tyrrell, R. Emmett Jr.
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A MESSAGE FROM MIRANDA If Congressman Henry Hyde was mad before, imagine his anger now. He was exasperated over Congress's passage of an arrantly unconstitutional legislative sausage that would...
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Capitol Ideas / The Blindfolded Synagogue
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Bethell, Tom
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CAPITOL IDEAS THE BLINDFOLDED SYNAGOGUE "D lindfolded, the Synagogue still moves forward in the universe of God's plans. It is itself only gropingly aware of its path in history." So wrote...
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Thou Shalt Not Commit Conservatism
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Barnes, Fred
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THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR VOL. 21, NO. 2 / FEBRUARY 1988 Fred Barnes THOU SHALT NOT COMMIT CONSERVATISM How Nancy and Mike kept the White House safe from the right. A t a nationally televised...
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The '60s Kids and the Crash
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O'Rourke, P. J.
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P. J. O'Rourke THE '60s KIDS AND THE CRASH It's all over now, baby boom. ver since the stock market went to 1—r the bathroom last fall, a lot of us have been pretty busy—talking our broker pals...
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A Depression in Our Future?
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Wood, Christopher
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Christopher Wood A DEPRESSION IN OUR FUTURE? A free-marketeer predicts it. rr he game is up. We were living during a period of fast money. The press had already coined their epitaphs. Earlier...
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The Enigma of Bob Dole
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Novak, Robert D.
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Robert D. Novak THE ENIGMA OF BOB DOLE On the hustings they think he's conservative. Why? W hile fielding mostly routine questions during a call-in pro- gram at Station WHO in Des Moines, Sen....
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Eminentoes / The Last of the Red-Hot Populists
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Gold, Victor
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EMINENTOES THE LAST OF THE RED-HOT POPULISTS James Elisha Folsom, 79, the liquor-guzzling former Alabama governor whose racial moderation in the 1940s and 1950s brought calls for impeachment from...
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The Public Policy / Mainstream Marxism Rebutted
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Ulmer, Melville J.
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THE PUBLIC POLICY MAINSTREAM MARXISM REBUTTED Icall them respectable radicals since they are committed Marxists who commonly pass for liberals, as foxes, if they could, would pass for spaniels....
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The Nation's Pulse / The Republicans in Mid-America
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Owen, Kent
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THE NATION'S PULSE THE REPUBLICANS IN MID-AMERICA by Kent Owen T his winter Midwestern Republi- 1 cans have more to worry about than who is going to win their presidential nomination. If one can...
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Presswatch / When the Soviets come to Washington
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Ledeen, Michael
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PRESSWATCH WHEN THE SOVIETS COME TO WASHINGTON rr he coverage of the summit is probably best left to the drama critics and the psychoanalysts, but a few points are appropriate. First, the West...
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The Talkies / Back to the Newsroom
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Bawer, Bruce
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THE TALKIES BACK TO THE NEWSROOM ur heroine is a cute, perky, sensitive, hard-working, highly principled, sexually square, auburn-haired television news producer. Her boss is a burly, balding,...
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The Great Maharajah Saloon Series / The Polo Bar in Jaipur
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Brookhiser, Richard
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THE GREAT MAHARAJAH SALOON SERIES THE POLO BAR IN JAIPUR T he Polo Bar of the Rambagh Pal- 1 ace, Jaipur, India, isn't as hard to get to as it sounds. You arrive in New Delhi at some ungodly early...
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Miami by Joan Didion, and Going to Miami, by David Rieff
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Starr, Roger
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BOOK REVIEWS W ho has not felt like an explorer when the airplane makes landfall just north of Surfside and the monster hotels sculpted from durable soap begin to take shape along the beach? Still...
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The Last Intellectuals, by Russell Jacoby
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Falcoff, Mark
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R ussell Jacoby has noticed some- .1‘. thing about the United States worth writing a book about—the growth of university communities whose intellectual products are basically irrelevant to the...
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Last Letters, by Olivier Blanc
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McGurn, William
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tt ranee is nothing but a great scaf1 ' fold in which the strong kill off the weak in the name of the law." So wrote a health officer named Dufresne in June 1793 to friends in Santo Domingo. It was...
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The Long Peace, by John Lewis Gaddis
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Shattan, Joseph
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In the preface to his 1982 study, Strategies of Containment, John Lewis Gaddis took his fellow diplomatic historians to task for their lack of interest in the role of ideas. "In their fascination...
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Remaking Japan, by Theodore Cohen
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Muravchik, Joshua
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T he transformation of Japan into 1 a thriving modern democracy was an extraordinary feat of social engineering. It was of course effected coercively, but the American occupation ended thirty-five...
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The Child in Time, by Ian McEwan
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Podhoretz, John
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dened his slight tome with interesting but meandering disquisitions on the nature of time, an unwarranted intrusion of precious fantasy, and a vulgar bit of political satire. McEwan clearly intends...
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And the Band Played On, by Randy Shilts
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Fumento, Michael
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Hudson. An openly homosexual writer for the San Francisco Chronicle and the nation's first full-time AIDS reporter, Shilts names names, slams reputations, and yet poignantly testifies to those few...
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The Washington Spectator / Gorbasms
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THE WASHINGTON SPECTATOR GORBASMS On the Monday afternoon before the summit, after Gorbi had landed at Andrews Air Force base but before the festivities had begun, the Official International Press...
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Current Wisdom
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Jackasses, Assorted
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CURRENT WISDOM Washington Post Young Mary McGrory, mashed on the Soviet Robert Redford: The adjective that leaps to mind when Mikhail Gorbachev strides into a room is "clean-cut." The noun that...
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