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Vol. 023 Issue 003 (March 1 1990)
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The Continuing Crisis
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THE CONTINUING CRISIS • In the first month of the new decade the official Laotian radio broadcast the solemn judgment of millions of adepts of Dr. Marx when it intoned that 1989 was "a nightmare...
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Correspondence
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CORRESPONDENCE Horrors It is with more than mild astonishment that one comes across a rave review of Andrea Dworkin's latest ravings in The American Spectator (January 1990), of all places. Having...
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Editorials/The Left Unscathed/Jesse Steals the Show
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Tyrrell, R. Emmett Jr.
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EDITORIALS JESSE STEALS THE SHOW W hich aspiring Democratic presidential candidate compares the American military's action in Panama with the massacre of defenseless protesters in Tiananmen Square...
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Capitol Ideas/The Giant Rat of Kenya
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Bethell, Tom
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CAPITOL IDEAS THE GIANT RAT OF KENYA by Tom Bethell 0 n January 15, ABC's "World News Tonight" broadcast a news story about the African rhino, pointing out that a lady in Kenya named Anna Merz...
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Creeping Capitalism in Soviet Russia
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Young, Cathy
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THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR VOL. 23, NO. 3 / MARCH 1990 Cathy Young CREEPING CAPITALISM IN SOVIET RUSSIA The problem with Soviet attitudes toward free-market competition stems not from a populace...
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Conference Hopping in the Evil Empire
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Strmecki, Marin
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Marin Strmecki CONFERENCE HOPPING IN THE EVIL EMPIRE So you're going to Moscow. Condolences. Soon enough you'll learn that the more the Communists change, the more they stay Communist. A s our...
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Should We Help Gorbachev?
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Nixon, Richard
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Richard Nixon SHOULD WE HELP GORBACHEV? Not if you take history seriously. Last December 4, former President Richard Nixon dictated a long analysis of East-West relations, and, in keeping with...
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Pishposh from the 1980s
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Pietrzyk, Mark; Fumento, Michael
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Pishposh from the 1980s Reviewing the decade's Big Stories by Mark Pietrzyk and Michael Fumento Gas Pains In the beginning of the 1990s gasoline is selling for less in real terms than it did in...
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Spectator's Journal/The Mandela Dilemma
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Morrison, Micah
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SPECTATOR'S JOURNAL THE MANDELA DILEMMA Johannesburg O utside, beneath the bright African sun, a green Rolls Royce shimmers in the driveway, lavender Jacaranda petals drifting down beside it. We...
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Presswatch/On the Record
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Eastland, Terry
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PRESSWATCH ON THE RECORD by Terry Eastland T alking is what reporters and their 1 sources do every day. Journalism depends upon it. But always there is the overriding question: What are the rules...
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Among the Intellectualoids/Zoo Story
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Queenan, Joe
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AMONG THE INTELLECTUALOIDS ZOO STORY by Joe Queenan In a recent issue of the New Republic, Michael Kinsley took museums to task for their failure to deflate the current art bubble. Kinsley feels...
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The Talkies/Ego Trips
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Bawer, Bruce
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THE TALKIES EGO TRIPS by Bruce Bawer M ichael Moore is lucky: he was born in one of America's most economically depressed cities, Flint, Michigan. I say lucky because Moore has now, with his...
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The Great American Saloon Series/When Irish Guys Are Slinging
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Mysak, Joe
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THE GREAT AMERICAN SALOON SERIES WHEN IRISH GUYS ARE SLINGING G UINNESS IS GOOD FOR YOU. The slogan is pasted all over Dublin, all over Ireland. I think I have even seen it scrawled on the side of...
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Hemingway in Love and War
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Villard, Henry Serrano; Nagel, James
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BOOK REVIEWS BBeginning with Edmund Wilson and Malcolm Cowley a half century ago, literary critics on the left have always cherished the proposition that Hemingway was traumatized forever on the...
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The Diary of H. L. Mencken
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Fecher, Charles A.
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THE DIARY OF H. L. MENCKEN Edited by Charles A. Fecher/Alfred A. Knopf/476 pp. $30 Theo Lippman, Jr. O n November 5, 1930, when he wa fifty years and two months old H. L. Mencken began to keep a...
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Ghosts on the Roof
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Teachout, Terry
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GHOSTS ON THE ROOF: SELECTED JOURNALISM OF WHITTAKER CHAMBERS, 1931-1959 Edited by Terry Thachout/Regnery Gateway/361 pp. $24.95 James Bowman T he roof of the title piece is that of 1 the...
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Vladimir Nabokov
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Bruccoli, Dmitri Nabokov and Matthew J.
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T he first things one notices about .I. this collection of letters are that the selection and editing are very much a family affair and that it starts not in 1940 but in 1923, maintaining that mild...
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Straight Shooting
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Silber, John
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John Silber should never have al- lowed his publisher (I assume the blame should be placed there since publishers are notorious for their lack of probity when it comes to merchandizing their wares)...
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Current Wisdom
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Jackasses, Assorted
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CURRENT WISDOM Washington Post George F. Will contributes to the great tradition of malaise in America rhetoric made famous by the incomparable James Earl Carter of Cross Road, Georgia: A less...
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