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IssueVol. 022 Issue 011 (November 1 1989)
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Paid articleThe Continuing Crisis
THE CONTINUING CRISIS • September has expired—blown away, those living in the Carolinas might say, by Hurricane Hugo, the worst storm of its kind to hit those parts in thirty-five years. And the...
Paid articleCorrespondence
CORRESPONDENCE What Is to Be Done? Senate and House of Representatives One wonders why so many families cause neither Clark nor we believe Re: Fred Barnes's, "So You Want to chambers would be great...
Paid articleEditorials/The End of What?/Tough Talk
'Tyrrell, R Emmett Jr.
10 TOUGH TALK well, here in Washington at the saw him adopt the demeanor of the resplendent Mayflower Hotel bruiser, and surely the Democrats recall the Democrats have held another of the gruesome...
Paid articleCapitol Ideas/Mind Over Matter
Bethell, Tom
CAPITOL IDEAS MIND OVER MATTER by Tom Bethell G eorge Gilder spoke at the Willard inner space of small-scale matter. The one understands quantum mechanics. certainly can. In short, "atomic Hotel...
Paid articleThe Road to Revolt in China
Morrison, Micah
THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR VOL. 22, NO. 11 / NOVEMBER 1989 Micah Morrison THE ROAD TO REVOLT IN CHINA The Democracy movement's intelligence chief recounts victory and defeat in Tiananmen Square. X...
Paid articleThe New Enemies List: No End in Sight
O'Rourke, P. J.
P. J. O'Rourke THE NEW ENEMIES LIST: NO END IN SIGHT A vigilant journalist's call for a New McCarthyism has struck a major chord with Americans of every patriotic stripe. Check below to see if...
Paid articleCongress in Crisis: Coming to Terms With Congressional Reform
England, Robert Stowe
CONGRESS IN CRISIS Robert Stowe England COMING TO TERMS WITH CAMPAIGN REFORM Congress won't change its ways if the best reformers can do is argue that money in political campaigns should be...
Paid articleCongress in Crisis: My Life as a Congressional Candidate
Michaelsen, Mark G.
MY LIFE AS A CONGRESSIONAL CANDIDATE I t was quite late and I was in bed, just drifting off to sleep, when the telephone rang. The caller identified herself as working for the New Republic. I...
Paid articleCongress in Crisis: The Economies of Public Housing
Tucker, William
William Tucker THE ECONOMIES OF PUBLIC HOUSING Forget the HUD scandals. The real scandal is that most Americans haven't a clue as to the progress made under Presidents Reagan and Bush in getting...
Paid articlePresswatch/No Runs, No Drips, No Errors
Eastland, Terry
PRESSWATCH NO RUNS, NO DRIPS, NO ERRORS by Terry Eastland G eorge Bush is succeeding where Ronald Reagan did not. His White House generally does not leak to the news media, at least not in the...
Paid articleThe Nation's Pulse/The Year They Legalized Drugs
Gold, Victor
THE NATION'S PULSE THE YEAR THEY LEGALIZED DRUGS Give Up Drug War; Legalize Drugs Instead —Headline on a column by Lynn Scarlett, USA Today, circa 1989 V es, well, all things considered, just I...
Paid articleEuropean Document/Breaking Away
Kaza, Juris
EUROPEAN DOCUMENT BREAKING AWAY by Juris Kaza Summon the kalpi! Summon the serfs! Out of the dark forests, On to the roadway .. . Tomorrow or the day after, Shell awake, our lady, Queen...
Paid articleAmong the Educationaloids/Bring Back the Old Math
Nelson, Caleb
AMONG THE EDUCATIONALOIDS BRING BACK THE OLD MATH I t is no longer news that American 1 children know little about mathematics. One 1986 national study, for instance, found that more than...
Paid articleThe Talkies/Sex and Candy
Bawer, Bruce
THE TALKIES SEX AND CANDY by Bruce Bawer S teven Soderbergh, the 26-year-old writer-director of sez lies, and videotape (lower-case letters, please), has never been to film school. And it shows:...
Paid articleWilliam Faulkner
Karl, Frederick R.
BOOK REVIEWS W hen I was slightly more than halfway through Frederick Karl's William Faulkner: American Writer, and beginning to wonder if there was no end to the thing, if my agony was to be...
Paid articleDeception
Epstein, Edward Jay
in the Kremlin, Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev. New from O r as Edward Jay Epstein puts it in his brilliant new book Deception: California "The erasure of the image of a Soviet threat is . ....
Paid articleDanger and Survival
Bundy, McGeorge
T he reason why country vets are I such solid characters is that no amount of facile blather will persuade farmers of their competence if the cow dies, chickens stop laying eggs, and pigs lose...
Paid articleDiminishing Fictions
Bawer, Bruce
I rving Howe recently complained in 1 the New Republic that literary criticism in America has become so professionalized that it no longer bothers to address the intelligent common reader. Its...
Paid articleThe Toronto Spectator/The Big Donut
Marin, Rick
THE TORONTO SPECTATOR THE BIG DONUT by Rick Marin W hen Americans visit Toronto they can't help noticing how darn nice the place is. It's so . . . clean. Hollywood movie crews import their own...
Paid articleCurrent Wisdom
Jackasses, Assorted
CURRENT WISDOM Time In far away Ghana a legendary American statesman finally finds himself: Not all the villages Carter visited were completely satisfied with his help. In one, following the...
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