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IssueVol. 023 Issue 004 (April 1 1990)
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Paid articleThe Continuing Crisis
THE CONTINUING CRISIS • February felt like spring through much of the United States, and in the Soviet Union it felt odd also. There, on February 7, the indigenous Communist party's Central...
Paid articleCorrespondence
technology that allows the Chinese to identify the sex of a fetus months before birth. Animal rights activists went into high dudgeon after police laid the ambush and death of Mr. Hyram Kitchen,...
Paid articleEditorials/Junk Bonds Into Scrap/Rooney Tunes
Tyrrell, R. Emmett Jr.
EDITORIALS JUNK BONDS INTO SCRAP Washington, D.C. T he current concerto grosso of sad 1 news being played by the pundits of this unhappy town is that nowadays all the history is being made...
Paid articleCapitol Ideas/Homesteading on the Liberal Plantation
Bethell, Tom
sexual magazine (that is to say a magazine written for homosexuals, not a magazine that loves other magazines), one Chris Bull, which is an ideal name for a journalist, don't you think? At any rate...
Paid articleBush's Big Government Conservatives
Barnes, Fred
THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR VOL. 23, NO. 4 / APRIL 1990 Fred Barnes BUSH'S BIG GOVERNMENT CONSERVATIVES Don't confuse them with Bigger Government Liberals. They're simply men who've stared political...
Paid articleAlan Cranston's Big Lies
Long, Buck; Cott, Lawrence V.
Buck Long and Lawrence V. Cott ALAN CRANSTON'S BIG LIES They started long before the senator's involvement in the Keating scandal and perhaps explain why the California Democrat is not going down...
Paid articleAmerican vs. British Conservatism: An Even Match?
Cranston, Maurice
Maurice Cranston AMERICAN VS. BRITISH CONSERVATISM: AN EVEN MATCH? Each variety has its strengths and weaknesses. We have our Constitution and our individualism; they have Mrs. Thatcher and...
Paid articleDismantling Socialism in One Country (II)
Brozyna, Piotr; Lilla, Mark
Piotr Brozyna and Mark Lilla DISMANTLING SOCIALISM IN ONE COUNTRY (II) Now that the Poles are free to be capitalists, their government must play the leading role in creating conditions that will...
Paid articleThe California Spectator/Super Sunday
Stein, Benjamin J.
THE CALIFORNIA SPECTATOR SUPER SUNDAY by Benjamin J. Stein T is one of those mornings when I I can't stop my criminal brain from working. I'd like to. I'd like to just walk out the door and wander...
Paid articlePresswatch/Invasion of the Auto-Neuts
Eastland, Terry
PRESSWATCH INVASION OF THE AUTO-NEUTS irr he Watchdog's Bite," a recent I magazine article by a journalism professor at Virginia Commonwealth University, has been well thumbed by key figures at...
Paid articleThe Nation's Pulse/Why Are They Begging?
Haag, Ernest van den
THE NATION'S PULSE WHY ARE THEY BEGGING? Lately New Yorkers find many more beggars than they are accustomed to. So do residents of most other cities as far away as San Diego, California, and...
Paid articleEminentoes/Senior Citizens
Queenan, Joe
person who tells a hard luck story. N o system can eliminate begging altogether. There always are some people who will resort to it, and some willing to give their change. Indeed, most people would...
Paid articleThe Talkies/Black and White in Color
Bawer, Bruce
THE TALKIES BLACK AND WHITE IN COLOR El or weeks now, a movie theater near my home has been playing Glory, the much-lauded movie about the 54th Massachusetts Infantry, the first black regiment in...
Paid articleThe Great American Saloon Series/The Russian Tea Room
Brookhiser, Richard
Daisy and Hoke can be seen as a metaphor for the developing relations between the races in the South from the forties to the seventies, the filmmakers don't press this interpretation upon us....
Paid articlePresident Bush Meets the Washington Club
PRESIDENT BUSH MEETS THE WASHINGTON CLUB n 1967, The American Spectator (then known as the Alternative) was founded by I graduate student R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr., to challenge the liberal orthodoxy...
Paid articleThe Sun Also Sets / The End of the American Century
Emmott, Bill; Schlossstein, Steven
BOOK REVIEWS BD oth Japan-bashers and Japan- apologists agree that Japan's economic rise is unremitting and irreversible. Though the Soviet Union proves there is no certain connection between...
Paid articleEdward Teller
Blumberg, Stanley A.; Pano, Louis G.
tion, Schlossstein believes the U.S. should mount "a concerted defense against Japanese acquisition of American companies in strategic industries." Schlossstein's indictment of the effects of the...
Paid articleLiar's Poker
Lewis, Michael
hearings. Asked whether he regarded Oppenheimer as a security risk, Teller replied that while he always regarded Oppenheimer as a loyal American, "In a great number of instances, I have seen Dr....
Paid articleThe Lost Continent
Bryson, Bill
havior. It was Michael Lewis's good luck to arrive at Salomon at the peak of its power and prosperity and observe the professional apoplexy in what was for a while probably the most exciting room in...
Paid articlePicturing Will
Beattie, Ann
the first thing he sees there is "an obviously well-educated black man in a three-piece suit carrying a Wall Street Journal." Similarly, Selma, Alabama, meets with his approval because it now...
Paid articleFrom Beirut to Jerusalem
Friedman, Thomas L.
"You know what heaven would be?" Zeke said, looking over at Wayne from the diving board, where he was sitting. "Surf 'n' Turf," he said. "Heavy on the butter with the Turf, too. And a side of...
Paid articleCurrent Wisdom
Jackasses, Assorted
CURRENT WISDOM The Great Books Series A stupendous exegesis of Miss Marabel Morgan's famed hamburger metaphor from Dr. Carol J. Adams, who in less enlightened times probably would not be invited...
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