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Paid articleThe Continuing Crisis
• And so January passes and with it the eight years of Goldwaterism as interpreted by Ronald Reagan. The interpreter was not very impressive we are told, usually by commentators who themselves are...
Paid articleCorrespondence
bureau; and Jim Shapiro, a member of CISPES. At CARC's suggestion, the Annandale students prepared themselves for the event by reading Faith Adams's tendentious state-sponsored Central America...
Paid articleEditorials/Stupefying Imbeciles/NBC's "Yesterday" Show
Tyrrell, R. Emmett Jr.
NBC'S "YESTERDAY" SHOW As an assiduous viewer of the Republic's three major morning talk shows I should like to tender a public-spirited suggestion to the producers and directors of NBC's "Today"...
Paid articleCapitol Ideas/Defenseless Cowards
Bethell, Tom
• CAPITOL IDEAS DEFENSELESS COWARDS by Tom Bethell O n September 30, 1988, in a Wall we are told. "The Establishment is last summer, Jon Utley, a friend of among the American leadership class...
Paid articleThe Unfinished Reagan Agenda
Novak, Robert D.
W hile marching methodically toward the Republican presidential nomination in the summer of 1987, George Bush was answering tame, predictable questions in a session with well-mannered party faithful...
Paid articleA Banana Republic Baedeker
McGurn, William
By the old Moulmein pagoda looking eastward to the sea, There's a Burma girl a-setting, and I know she thinks o' me; For the wind is in the palm trees and the temple bells they say: "Come you back,...
Paid articleThose Were the Days: The SDS Revisited
Puddington, Arch
Arch Puddington THOSE WERE THE DAYS: THE SDS REVISITED If the New Left failed politically, it was because students were no substitute for an exploited proletariat— and because the U.S. never had...
Paid articleThe Big Fix
Adams, James Ring
T wo billboards on 1-30 West catch 1 the spirit of present-day Dallas. One, over a portrait of a tractor-trailer, reads: Data SHRED Mobile Document Disintegration On-site destruction The second,...
Paid articleAmong the Intellectualoids/Quark Bites
Queenan, Joe
QUARK BITES It is generally agreed that Galileo was the last Catholic who really knew Science cold. It is no coincidence that he didn't go to parochial school. At the schools I attended—Our Lady...
Paid articleThe Business of America/Some Like It Hot
Stelzer, Irwin M.
THE BUSINESS OF AMERICA SOME LIKE IT HOT by Irwin M. Stelzer E nvironmental deterioration, the more government money for research, summit of the major industrial coun- the earth warms, the...
Paid articlePresswatch/Androgyny and Dr. Broder
Eastland, Terry
PRESSWATCH ANDROGYNY AND DR. BRODER by Terry Eastland I n a speech at the National Press drogynous, having gone from jour- "no such recourse against us in the parts." Indeed, unless "we" remain...
Paid articleThe Talkies/The Winter of Our Discontent
Bawer, Bruce
THE WINTER OF OUR DISCONTENT W inter has brought with it a blizzard of widely heralded new films, the most lauded of which is probably The Accidental Tourist, directed by Lawrence Kasdan from a...
Paid articleThe Washington Spectator/Bush Bash
Ferguson, Andrew
BUSH BASH THE WASHINGTON SPECTATOR T he Washington Post inaugurated George Bush's inaugural week with a suitable gesture: a long piece called "Inaugural Kitsch: Goodbye To All That," by Sidney...
Paid articleCity for Sale
Newfield, Jack; Barrett, Wayne
CITY FOR SALE: ED KOCH AND THE BETRAYAL OF NEW YORK Jack Newfield and Wayne Barrett/Harper & Row/$22.50 Thomas Mallon E leven years after first taking office as Mayor of the City of New York,...
Paid articleThe Limits of Social Policy
Glazer, Nathan
Aimed straight at the heart of public policy in the '90s!"* "Hooray for Cato for talking about the right things at the right time in the right way. An American Vision is timely, compelling, and...
Paid articleFamily Questions / The Family Wage
Carlson, Allan C.; al, Bryce Christensen, et.
FAMILY QUESTIONS: REFLECTIONS ON THE AMERICAN SOCIAL CRISIS Allan C. Carlson/Transaction Books/$34.95 THE FAMILY WAGE: WORK, GENDER, AND CHILDREN IN THE MODERN ECONOMY Bryce Christensen, Allan...
Paid articleHarvard Diary/ That Red Wheelbarrow
Coles, Robert
A few years ago, before starting a lecture on the "Literature of Social Reflection" (a course for Harvard undergraduates that dwells on suffering and sacrifice in life and literature), Robert Coles...
Paid articleLiability
Huber, Peter
LIABILITY: THE LEGAL REVOLUTION AND ITS CONSEQUENCES Peter Huber/Basic Books/$19.95 Michael Fumento T he United States has by far the 1 highest per capita number of lawyers of any nation in the...
Paid articleHigh Noon in Lincoln
Utley, Robert M.
HIGH NOON IN LINCOLN: VIOLENCE ON THE WESTERN FRONTIER Robert M. Utley/University of New Mexico Press/$22.50 Wayne Michael Sarf I n the recent R-rated teenage West- 1 ern Young Guns, an...
Paid articleBooks You May Have Missed/A Reconsideration of Redcliffe N. Salaman's The History and Social Influence of the Potato
Luttwak, Edward N.
THE HISTORY AND SOCIAL INFLUENCE OF THE POTATO Redcliffe N. Salaman; Revised Impression edited by J. G. Hawkes Cambridge University Press (1985)/$17.95 paper Edward N. Luttwak PD araphrasing...
Paid articleCurrent Wisdom
Jackasses, Assorted
New Republic Observations of a sociological nature from Miss Margaret Carlson, tomorrow's Mother Teresa: I went to visit one of George Bush's thousand points of light three weeks ago bearing...
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