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IssueVol. 022 Issue 002 (February 1 1989)
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Paid articleThe Continuing Crisis
THE CONTINUING CRISIS • December is now filed away and with it all of 1988, which turned out to be a very unpleasant year, especially for those of us who had put our trust in the vaticinations of...
Paid articleCorrespondence
tional anthem, defected to Spain. President Ronald Reagan and his wife had their last medical check-up at Bethesda Naval Hospital. In Tulsa, Oklahoma, the joke was on the local police. There they...
Paid articleEditorials/Lifers on Capitol Hill/Save the Chickens
Tyrrell, R. Emmett Jr.
EDITORIALS LIFERS ON CAPITOL HILL by R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. T he facts cannot be denied. Our 1 Members of Congress are for the most part extremely hard working and very pretty. This latter point...
Paid articleCapitol Ideas/The Missing Generation
Bethell, Tom
vocates, some of whom oppose all blood sports. Others oppose medical experimentation on animals. There are some who would arrest every butcher in the Republic and others who, would shut down all pet...
Paid articleVoodoo Deficits
Evans-Pritchard, Ambrose
THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR VOL. 22, NO. 2 / FEBRUARY 1989 Ambrose Evans-Pritchard VOODOO DEFICITS For the edification of George Bush: Ronald Reagan's and Margaret Thatcher's supply-side successes...
Paid articleThe Suave Gorbachev Wears No Clothes
Ledeen, Michael
Michael Ledeen THE SUAVE GORBACHEV WEARS NO CLOTHES Gorbo's New York speech was an admission of failure, an appeal to creditors for more money and more time, and a general cry for help. The...
Paid articleNice Day for a Black Wedding
Queenan, Joe
Joe Queenan NICE DAY FOR A BLACK WEDDING Herewith, a few nuptial horror stories in which no one points blame at the bride's mother. ne of my best friends got married in a satanic wedding...
Paid articlePity the New York Landlord
Tucker, William
right into the ceremony. It was a jimdandy, complete with what I took to be a grail, an ornate ceremonial dagger, and a phallic ritualistic instrument periodically elevated above the gathering in...
Paid articlePresswatch/Welcome to the Major Leaks
Eastland, Terry
PRESSWATCH WELCOME TO THE MAJOR LEAKS T eaks are fascinating things," 1.-J opined the Wall Street Journal on November 18. Indeed they are, and since George Bush's victory on November 8, it has...
Paid articleThe Business of America/Save Us From the Reregulators
Stelzer, Irwin M.
Congress to subordinate its historic role as legislator to that of overseer of the executive branch. In this capacity, Congress tries to administer the executive branch, a task that of course...
Paid articleThe Nation's Pulse/The Best TV Documentary of 1988
Teachout, Terry
THE NATION'S PULSE THE BEST TV DOCUMENTARY OF 1988 T he authors of the endless paeans 1 to John E Kennedy appearing in the elite media last November were hampered considerably by the fact that the...
Paid articleAmong the Intellectualoids/Anticommunism and Mental Health
Evanier, David; Klehr, Harvey
ton correspondents are hustled in front of the camera and told to say something. Silent film from Dallas is thrown on the air unscreened, still wet from the developing process. (In one clip, we see...
Paid articleSpectator's Journal/Pondering Perestroika
Train, John
munism and American Intellectual Life," was moderated by Kovel, the Hiss prof. Historian Blanche Wiesen Cook was not happy: "We stand morally isolated before the world, allied with South Africa and...
Paid articleEuropean Document/U.S. out of NATO? A French Scenario
Kaplan, Roger
EUROPEAN DOCUMENT T he European allies paid very little 1 attention to the U.S. election last year. Press and politicians alike borrowed the American liberal elite's line that voters were faced...
Paid articleThe Talkies/The Screenplay's the Thing
Bawer, Bruce
tion that "NATO is dead" ("Men don't give their lives for NATOs or SEATOs or CENTOs or any other Os," he said at Columbia University last year). Soussan sees NATO as a net strategic minus: it...
Paid articleFit to Print: A.M. Rosenthal and His Times
Goulden, Joseph C.
BOOK REVIEWS EEven in its bare outlines, the life of A. M. Rosenthal would seem to offer promising material for a biographer. Born in Canada to immigrant Russian Jews, Abe Rosenthal grew up in the...
Paid articleIn Pursuit
Murray, Charles
T n his last book, Losing Ground 1 (1984), Charles Murray pinpointed the paradox that the more money the government spent on the poor, the worse their situation seemed to get. By most of the...
Paid articleThe Golden Oriole
Trevelyan, Raleigh
N ow that the worship of Demon Colonialism has fallen out of fashion, people sometimes forget that the dirty imp affected its acolytes as strongly, sometimes as harshly, as it did those oppressed by...
Paid articleA Sinking Island / The Mechanic Muse
Kenner, Hugh
T here are two Hugh Kenners. The 1 first is a factual reporter of the early twentieth-century literary scene. This Kenner enjoys an encyclopedic grasp of his period, which he brings to bear on...
Paid articleHollywood Days, Hollywood Nights
Stein, Ben
which is the assumption that modernist artists are unimpeachable cultural heroes. Second, even among those convinced of the movement's accomplishments, there is a growing weariness with the endless...
Paid articleTom Wolfe Meets the Washington Club
TOM WOLFE MEETS THE WASHINGTON CLUB As an opinion magazine whose influence extends far beyond its subscriber rolls, The American Spectator has over the years counted on the moral and financial...
Paid articleCurrent Wisdom
Jackasses, Assorted
CURRENT WISDOM Gainesville Sun The sad somniloquy of James A. Michener the same night some cad put garlic in his tapioca pudding: This year's election scared me. It was conducted with a brutality...
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