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Vol. 021 Issue 007 (July 1 1988)
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The Continuing Crisis
THE CONTINUING CRISIS •One of the soggiest Mays on record has elapsed, but as the rains abate and the summer sun glints over the horizon, hope rises that at last America has another Gandhi, a...
Correspondence
CORRESPONDENCE Does the Pope Love America? ference between Communism and capi- "underdevelopment," don't fall under maybe the poor chap is, as the French To those of us who equate the idea of...
Editorials/Moscow and Bliss/A Question of Honor
Tyrrell, R. Emmett Jr.
EDITORIALS MOSCOW AND BLISS by R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. General Secretary Mikhail Gorba- Marxist blight on the Soviet mind it is to proceed on the question of the na- managers in the boondocks, are...
Capitol Ideas/Beckmann vs. Einstein
Bethell, Tom
CAPITOL IDEAS BECKMANN VS. EINSTEIN by Tom Bethell A fter Howard Higman's conference ter (a marvelous read every month), dangered (both his parents were Com- will continue "until we are hit over...
George Bush, Statesman
Morrison, Micah
THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR VOL. 21, NO. 7 / JULY 1988 Micah Morrison GEORGE BUSH, STATESMAN In an exclusive interview, the Vice President submits a foreign policy for conservatives to reflect...
George Bush, Politician
Fossedal, Gregory A.
Gregory A. Fossedal GEORGE BUSH, POLITICIAN An issue nerd argues why the Veeper cannot wait until Labor Day to make his move. G eorge Bush was giving a speech at Lander's Restaurant in Lebanon,...
Memories of Yaddo: An Autobiographical Postscript
Hook, Sidney
Sidney Hook MEMORIES OF YADDO: AN AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL POSTSCRIPT A distinguished philosopher recalls the early days of a writers' colony where anti-capitalism flourished in plush...
Our Homestead Plan for the Poor
Tucker, William
William Tucker OUR HOMESTEAD PLAN FOR THE POOR Welfare reform will come to no good unless it allows the underclass to work and have families. D erhaps no problem poses a greater 1 danger to the...
The Business of America/Plant Closings and the Republicans
Stelzer, Irwin M.
THE BUSINESS OF AMERICA PLANT CLOSINGS AND THE REPUBLICANS Is Ronald Reagan really intent on making Michael Dukakis the next President of the United States? His vigorous opposition to legislation...
The Nation's Pulse/Club Lib
Wagner, Geoffrey
THE NATION'S PULSE CLUB LIB by Geoffrey Wagner In 1984 New York's mayor, Ed Koch, found himself facing an important primary. He had not previously been notorious for sympathy to the women's...
Presswatch/Weasel Words and Deeds
Ledeen, Michael
PRESSWATCH WEASEL WORDS AND DEEDS W hen does a journalist take responsibility for what he writes, and when does he "fudge" it by wrapping various disclaimers around it? I don't know if this is a...
The Great Singapore Saloon Series/Raffles
McGurn, William
THE GREAT SINGAPORE SALOON SERIES RAFFLES by William McGurn eed at Raffles, where the food is excellent" was the way Rudyard Kipling put it back in 1888. Well, sort of. What Kipling in fact wrote...
The Talkies/Communists and Kitsch
Bawer, Bruce
THE TALKIES COMMUNISTS AND KITSCH by Bruce Bawer T f I've taken this long to get around ures crucially in the novel The Unbear- writes, describing the gulag as "a sep- action games when making...
Spectator's Journal/A Brief Meeting in Geneva
Evanier, David
SPECTATOR'S JOURNAL A BRIEF MEETING IN GENEVA by David Evanier A man in his sixties, he glowed like a light bulb. His arm in an orange sling, red shirt, he looked dashing. Brisk color, fine skin....
The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers
Kennedy, Paul
BOOK REVIEWS T he fuss made in the United States 1 about this book surprises Europeans, and amuses them too. Perhaps it tells us more about the techniques of hype in the U.S. publishing industry,...
Washington Goes to War
Brinkley, David
WASHINGTON GOES TO WAR David Brinkley/Alfred A. Knopf/$18.95 Brit Hume F or decades, David Brinkley has war. They stood in striking contrast to prepared for a live broadcast on the genteel...
For the Record / Speaking Out
Regan, Donald T.; Speakes, Larry
In a perverse way, these books are reassuring. If things are as bad at the White House as Don Regan and Larry Speakes claim, it's amazing the Reagan presidency didn't collapse years ago. But the...
Oscar Wilde
Ellmann, Richard
OSCAR WILDE Richard Ellmann/Alfred A. Knopf/$24.95 Aram Bakshian, Jr. choosing the title for his best Wilde, a meticulously detailed but °e- V. / remembered play, Oscar Wilde casionally...
Political Passages
Bunzel, John H.
V very once in a while, I am prone to second thoughts: maybe I overreacted to the sixties; maybe my deep and abiding hatred of the New Left, the counterculture, and the age of Aquarius in all its...
Citizen Cohn / The Autobiography of Roy Cohn
Hoffman, Nicholas von; Zion, Sidney
CITIZEN COHN Nicholas von Hoffman/Doubleday/$19.95 THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF ROY COHN Sidney Zion/Lyle Stuart/$18.95 Victor Gold Memorandum to: front seat "having a very involuted R. Emmett Tyrrell...
Ambassador in Paris
Galbraith, Evan
AMBASSADOR IN PARIS: THE REAGAN YEARS Evan Galbraith/Regnery Gateway/$16.95 Ernest van den Haag In the past—without telephones larly important. Indeed it is important and jet planes—ambassadors...
The Washington Spectator
Ferguson, Andrew
THE WASHINGTON SPECTATOR Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines, wrote Shakespeare, although we all know it's not so much the eye of heaven as the humidity. After an uncertain spring of random...
Current Wisdom
Jackasses, Assorted
CURRENT WISDOM The Great Books Series Proof that it didn't start with Nancy: Daddy was not a superstitious man but he believed in fortune-tellers when it came to finding a lost bird dog. . . ....
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