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IssueVol. 023 Issue 006 (June 1 1990)
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Paid articleThe Continuing Crisis
THE CONTINUING CRISIS • April, as the poet has it, is the cruelest month of all—though in 1990 it is but one of four consecutive cruel months, at least for those ideological heirlooms who still...
Paid articleCorrespondence
CORRESPONDENCE An Open Letter to P. J. O'Rourke Normally I don't let myself get worked up by such trash, but there is the danger that someone might believe some of the lies you've printed about...
Paid articleEditorials / An Anti-American Poseur / Twisted and Hallucinatory
Tyrrell, R. Emmett Jr.
TWISTED AND HALLUCINATORY W hat follows is what the venerable Liberal columnist Anthony Lewis wrote the other day. For that matter, it is also what he was writing several weeks ago, several months...
Paid articleCapitol Ideas / Moon Over Moscow
Bethell, Tom
CAPITOL IDEAS MOON OVER MOSCOW We passed through customs at Moscow with scarcely an official glance at our luggage. It seems the Soviet authorities have given up trying to control what people...
Paid articleMr. Gorbachev's Bizarreries
Ledden, Michael
THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR VOL. 23, NO. 6 / JUNE 1990 Michael Ledeen MR. GORBACHEV'S BIZARRERIES As he flails away at Lithuanians and others who desire freedom, the visionless and weak-willed Mikhail...
Paid articleDeath Rally Days
Mallon, Thomas
Thomas Mallon DEATH RALLY DAYS Live from San Quentin, the execution of murderer Robert Alton Harris is put on hold—while the debate over the death penalty moves to Main Street. M y diary from...
Paid articleTeddy Kennedy on Death Row
Fowler, Jack
TEDDY KENNEDY ON DEATH ROW Washington W hile in California politicians are making support for capital punishment the campaign issue of 1990, in our nation's capital Ted Kennedy and his allies are...
Paid articleDeclarations of Codependence
Kristol, Elizabeth
Elizabeth Kristol DECLARATIONS OF CODEPENDENCE People who need people are the sickliest people in the world—and that's just for starters. "Cures of patients who suppose themselves to be glass may...
Paid articleSpectator's Journal / Toward a New Cambodia Policy
Horowitz, Michael J.
SPECTATOR'S JOURNAL TOWARD A NEW CAMBODIA POLICY "China has not changed and will not change its approach. The stance of China and the stance of the Khmer Rouge—they are the same." —Norodom...
Paid articleThe Nation's Pulse / Look Back in Anger
Stein, Benjamin J.
THE NATION'S PULSE LOOK BACK IN ANGER A normal Sunday. I was sitting in a chair reading the financial statements of a very large insurance company, trying to see if the management had taken a...
Paid articlePresswatch / The Leak That Fizzled
Eastland, Terry
PRESSWATCH THE LEAK THAT FIZZLED T he headless and hopefully named 1 Office of Thrift Supervision finally received a head and maybe some hope when in early April Washington lawyer Tim Ryan was...
Paid articleAmong the Intellectualoids / Another Oliver Stone Opening
Lane, Bill
AMONG THE INTELLECTUALOIDS ANOTHER OLIVER STONE OPENING • Within 30 minutes of watching the opening of Born on the Fourth of July all the Vietnam veterans who had been invited to see it were in...
Paid articleThe Talkies / Commonplace Comedy
Bawer, Bruce
THE TALKIES COMMONPLACE COMEDY T he first thing you should know 1 about Pretty Woman is that it was directed by Garry ("Laverne and Shirley") Marshall, a man who became famous back in the...
Paid articleThe Liberal Conspiracy, by Peter Coleman
Muggeridge, John
BOOK REVIEWS IT n May 1967, Thomas Wardell Bra- den revealed to Saturday Evening Post readers that as part of the Cold War effort CIA funds laundered through American foundations had been used to...
Paid articleThe Myth of Heterosexual AIDS, by Michael Fumento
Munson, Steven C.
A few years ago AIDS produced an outburst of national hysteria quite unlike anything in recent memory. Today it has been relegated to the status of a national piety. It remains, of course, of acute...
Paid articleA Tenured Professor, by John Kenneth Galbraith
Bownam, James
nce upon a time there was a poor governess whose life had been largely spent amid romantic daydreams of her own invention. Having recently recovered from an unhappy and unreciprocated passion for a...
Paid articleLife on the Rim, by David Levine
Queenan, Joe
M idway through the 1989-90 National Basketball Association season, I watched a televised broadcast of a game between the Philadelphia 76ers, a very good basketball team, and the New Jersey Nets, a...
Paid articleThe Socialist Spectator / Peep Show
Brock, David
THE SOCIALIST SPECTATOR PEEP SHOW by David Brock y ou can tell a lot about a group by its enemies, and if this year's annual "Socialist Scholars" conference gave an award, it would have gone to...
Paid articleCurrent Wisdom
Jackasses, Assorted
CURRENT WISDOM The Great Books Series Hugh Prather, the Marcel Proust of yuppiedom, in a new introduction to the twentieth-anniversary edition of his Notes to Myself, gibbers in the first person...
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