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IssueVol. 024 Issue 005 (May 1 1991)
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Paid articleThe Continuing Crisis
THE CONTINUING CRISIS • After deconstructing Iraq in February, America in March turned to deconstructing its victory in the Gulf War. The results were predictable. "After the Euphoria, a Letdown,"...
Paid articleCorrespondence
CORRESPONDENCE Ho, Hun As to "Germany Neither East Nor West" (TAS, March 1991): The self-appointed praeceptor Germaniae is a breed apart. The piece by Mr. George Szamuely is subtitled:...
Paid articleEditorial/PC People
Tyrrell, R. Emmett Jr.
EDITORIAL PC PEOPLE by R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. O ur universities are in crisis. Something must be done! And at The American Spectator we have decided that something will be done. This is not to...
Paid articleCapitol Ideas/Tulane and the Big Government Campus
Bethell, Tom
CAPITOL IDEAS TULANE AND THE BIG GOVERNMENT CAMPUS New Orleans Like other professors who have re- sisted the importation of "politically correct" thought into the university, Tulane's Paul Lewis...
Paid articleCampus Counterrevolution
Frum, David
David Frum CAMPUS COUNTERREVOLUTION New appointments at Harvard Law School and Yale College indicate that the left's assault on the universities may be petering out. Al along the front, the...
Paid articleKids Today
Quinn, Patrick
KIDS TODAY by Patrick Quinn. Lawrence, Kansas You see a lot of tie-dyed T-shirts on college campuses these days. Psychedelia is hip again, lava lamps are back, and kids not old enough to remember...
Paid articleThe Mission Thing
Gibbons, Gene
Gene Gibbons THE MISSION THING Those who doubted President Bush's willingness to liberate Kuwait weren't following the man very closely. Last Thanksgiving Day, at a dusty desert outpost in...
Paid articleIn Defense of Defense
O'Rourke, P. J.
P. J. O'Rourke IN DEFENSE OF DEFENSE U.S. military spending is the best (and cheapest) life insurance the taxpayer can buy. A uthor's note: The following analy- sis of our country's defense...
Paid articleThe Nation's Pulse/Taking Stock
Stein, Benjamin J.
THE NATIONS'S PULSE TAKING STOCK by Benjamin J. Stein Sunday D inner at the Beverly-Wilshire. It's a huge fund-raising thing for The Fund for Animals, a charity run by some Hollywood types who...
Paid articleEl Salvador Spectator/Jimmy, Go Home
McGurn, William
EL SALVADOR SPECTATOR JIMMY, GO HOME! by William McGurn San Salvador T he first sight a visitor sees upon ar- 1 rival at the city airport is a poster of a four-year-old girl on crutches with half...
Paid articlePresswatch/The Power Executive
Eastland, Terry
PRESSWATCH THE POWER EXECUTIVE F ()Bowing President Bush's televised address to Congress and the nation on March 6, Dan Rather commented that the President of the United States has many powers but...
Paid articleSoviet Presswatch/Updating the Pozner File: An Interview
Young, Cathy
SOVIET PRESSWATCH UPDATING THE POZNER FILE: AN INTERVIEW JT ust when you thought it was safe to go back to the bookstore here comes, from Avon Book% a paperback of Vladimir Pozner's Parting with...
Paid articleAmong the Intellectualoids/Stage Left
Queenan, Joe
AMONG THE INTELLECTUALOIDS STAGE LEFT by Joe Queenan A s the curtain rose on Steve Tesich's new play The Speed of Darkness, I found myself gazing at an ordinary living room in an ordinary American...
Paid articleThe Talkies/Swinging No More
Bowman, James
THE TALKIES SWINGING NO MORE Several new movies suggest that the sixties revival in pop culture is gathering steam. For the most part, however, it is not the real sixties that are being revived...
Paid articleOpening Arguments
Toobin, Jeffrey
BOOK REVIEWS Iishard to write a boring book about I the Iran-contra affair and, while Jeffrey Toobin hasn't fully succeeded, this is as close as anyone is likely to get. Toobin came to Washington...
Paid articleDickens
Ackroyd, Peter
DICKENS Peter Ackroyd/HarperCollins/1,195 pp. $35 Kenneth S. Lynn On workdays, Dickens went to his desk, rather formally dressed, and sat there for five hours, whether or not words flowed from...
Paid articleThe Web of Disinformation / The Rape of Serbia
Martin, David; Lees, Michael
THE WEB OF DISINFORMATION: CHURCHILL'S YUGOSLAV BLUNDER David Martin/Harcourt Brace Jovanovich/425 pp. $29.95 THE RAPE OF SERBIA: THE BRITISH ROLE IN TITO'S GRAB FOR POWER Michael Lees/Harcourt...
Paid articleAn American Life
Reagan, Ronald
AN AMERICAN LIFE Ronald Reagan/Simon and Schuster/718 pp. $24.95 Terry Eastland This hefty doorstop of a presiden- t tial memoir is three books in one. The first covers everything from Ronald...
Paid articleBreaking Barriers
Rowan, Carl T.
BREAKING BARRIERS: A MEMOIR Carl T. Rowan/Little, Brown/395 pp. $22.95 Brock Yates It was with considerable enthusiasm that the American Left received the memoirs of noted social climber,...
Paid articleThe Way of the WASP
Brookhiser, Richard
THE WAY OF THE WASP: HOW IT MADE AMERICA AND HOW IT CAN SAVE IT, SO TO SPEAK Richard Brookhiser/The Free Press/171 pp. $19.95 Francis X. Rocca Tf America had been settled and founded by...
Paid articleAurora 7
Mallon, Thomas
O n Thursday, May 24, 1962, at 7:45 a.m. EST, the second U.S. manned orbital space flight was undertaken when the Aurora 7 was launched from Cape Canaveral with astronaut Malcolm Scott Carpenter...
Paid articleThe Telephone Booth Indian and A Neutral Corner
Liebling, A. J.
THE TELEPHONE BOOTH INDIAN A. J. Liebling/North Point Press/148 pp. $9.95 (paper) A NEUTRAL CORNER: BOXING ESSAYS A. J. Liebling/North Point Press/245 pp. $19.95 Christopher Caldwell In his...
Paid articleReview/Illiberal Education, by Dinesh D'Souza
Karl, Jonathan D.
ILLIBERAL EDUCATION: THE POLITICS OF RACE AND SEX ON CAMPUS Dinesh D'Souza/The Free Press/300 pp. $19.95 Jonathan D. Karl A merican colleges and universities have come under almost unremitting...
Paid articleTAS Pictorial: A Washington Story
A WASHINGTON STORY On February 20, 1991, The American Spectator and Libertad hosted the magazine's annual dinner at Washington's Willard Hotel the late President Grant's favorite watering hole. In...
Paid articleCurrent Wisdom
Jackasses, Assorted
CURRENT WISDOM Santa Barbara News-Press Still more evidence that Santa Barbara is the fla-fla center of America: I would like to know how Iraq's colonization of Kuwait differs from the pilgrims'...
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