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IssueVol. 022 Issue 009 (September 1 1989)
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Paid articleThe Continuing Crisis
THE CONTINUING CRISIS • July passed swimmingly, at least for those with umbrellas, flood insurance, and a healthy disdain for the notion of global warming. It was equally swell for anyone who...
Paid articleSpecial Editorial/Flag Flap
Gold, Victor
SPECIAL EDITORIAL FLAG FLAP by Victor Gold AMENDMENT XXXVIII Notwithstanding the provisions of Article II of the amendments hereof regarding the necessity of a well-regulated militia, the sale or...
Paid articleEditorials/The Real Environmentalist/Bush and the Conservatives
Tyrrell, R. Emmett Jr.
EDITORIALS THE REAL ENVIRONMENTALIST by R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. ne of the curiosities of the American environmental movement is that so few environmentalists look particularly suited for the...
Paid articleCapitol Ideas/Heretic as Hero
Bethell, Tom
CAPITOL IDEAS HERETIC AS HERO by Tom Bethell B drums in the lead, the .1.— 3 African American liturgical procession came solemnly down the aisle of Suitland High School's Anabelle Ferguson...
Paid articleCongress in Crisis: So You Want to Reform Congress?
Barnes, Fred
THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR VOL. 22, NO. 9 / SEPTEMBER 1989 9 CONGRESS IN CRISIS Fred Barnes SO YOU WANT TO REFORM CONGRESS? To remind senators and House members why they were sent to Washington, we...
Paid articleThe Rape of Poland and the Death of Hope
Valiunas, Algis
Algis Valiunas THE RAPE OF POLAND AND THE DEATH OF HOPE Fifty years after the outbreak of World War II, is Western man any wiser? M en have always possessed an immense capacity for savagery and...
Paid articleArgentina Drifts Toward Disaster
Evans-Pritchard, Ambrose
Ambrose Evans-Pritchard ARGENTINA DRIFTS TOWARD DISASTER Our correspondent reports on the wages of Peronism's economic sins—and expects little repentance from Carlos Menem, for all the new...
Paid articleLiterary Logrolling
O'Rourke, P. J.; Barry, Dave
LITERARY LOGROLLING P. J. O'Rourke reviews his pal Dave Barry's new book. In return, a grateful Dave Barry reviews his buddy P. J.'s new book. And the Cheese stands alone. "WE THE PEOPLE." These...
Paid articleThe Nation's Pulse/I'm a Pole Watcher
Swick, Thomas
THE NATION'S PULSE I'M A POLE WATCHER S with a group of Poles the 1. 3 first Saturday in June I thought to myself: there may be one or two here who dreamed that one day they would vote in a...
Paid articlePresswatch/Gray Matter
Eastland, Terry
PRESSWATCH GRAY MATTER by Terry Eastland n Memorial Day two FBI agents interviewed Democratic Rep. Bill Gray at a Washington hotel. The next evening Rita Braver of CBS reported the existence of a...
Paid articleThe Business of America/Independence Day Blues
Stelzer, Irwin M.
THE BUSINESS OF AMERICA INDEPENDENCE DAY BLUES As summer draws to a close, one can't help reflecting on the contradiction between the theme of the season's major holiday and the reality of the...
Paid articleSpectator's Journal/A Day
Stein, Benjamin J.
SPECTATOR'S JOURNAL A DAY by Benjamin J. Stein D ing, ring, ring. 1\ A telephone call from a woman in Richmond, Virginia. Would I like to be the off-camera voice of a racetrack in Baltimore,...
Paid articleThe Talkies/The Baron of Brighton
Bawer, Bruce
THE TALKIES THE BARON OF BRIGHTON F or decades—indeed, since long before many of us were born—it has been a commonplace that Laurence Olivier was the greatest actor of our time. So much of a...
Paid articleThe Great Caribbean Saloon Series/Ruminiscences
Brookhiser, Richard
THE GREAT CARIBBEAN SALOON SERIES RUMINISCENCES by Richard Brookhiser T he time to flee America for the Caribbean is winter, though if, like me, you are in an annual months-long fret about income...
Paid articleTarget Prime Time
Montgomer, Kathryn C.
BOOK REVIEWS rr elevision knows how to deal with 1 its enemies: give them airtime. A Detroit housewife, outraged by an eyeful of skimpy lingerie on the TV show "Married . . . With Children," writes...
Paid articleCatholicism and the Renewal of American Democracy
Weigel, George
CATHOLICISM AND THE RENEWAL OF AMERICAN DEMOCRACY George Weigel/Paulist Press/218 pp. $11.95 paper George Sim Johnston A midst the Kulturkampf of American life, writes George Weigel in his...
Paid articleThe Crosswinds of Freedom
Burns, James MacGregor
THE CROSSWINDS OF FREEDOM: THE AMERICAN EXPERIMENT, VOL. III James MacGregor Burns/Alfred A. Knopf/864 pp. $35 Victor Gold 0 f the mandarin historians of the American left, few suffer the...
Paid articleCitizens
Schama, Simon
CITIZENS: A CHRONICLE OF THE FRENCH REVOLUTION Simon Schama/Alfred A. Knopf/948 pp. $29.95 Maurice Cranston rr his "chronicle" of the French .1 Revolution became an instant bestseller throughout...
Paid articlePatterns of Corporate Philanthropy
Meiners, Roger E.; Laband, David N.
PATTERNS OF CORPORATE PHILANTHROPY: PUBLIC AFFAIRS GIVING AND THE FORBES 250 Roger E. Meiners and David N. Laband/Capital Research Center 403 pp. $50 paper John Von Kannon I n 1972 Bob Tyrrell...
Paid articleTo Reach Eternity
Hendrick, George
TO REACH ETERNITY: THE LETTERS OF JAMES JONES Edited by George Hendrick, with a foreword by William Styron Random House/380 pp. $22.50 William H. Nolte W hat can one say about this collection...
Paid articleThe Washington Spectator/Tours de Farce
Ferguson, Andrew
THE WASHINGTON SPECTATOR TOURS DE FARCE You know somebody's been in Washington too long when he tells you that the city "empties out" during the summer. "Nothing's going on in August," he will...
Paid articleSpecial Current Wisdom/Ron on the Rock Reactions
Jackasses, Assorted
SPECIAL CURRENT WISDOM * Reagan on the Rock Reactions The humble proposal to add Ronald Reagan's countenance to Mount Rushmore—first advanced by R. Emmett TYrrell, Jr., and fleshed out in our...
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