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Vol. 025 Issue 008 (August 1 1992)
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••Cover Page••
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The Continuing Crisis
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• June is exhausted and so am I. For six weeks I have been on a book tour for my new tome, The Conservative Crack-Up, daily popping in and out of dozens of TV and radio studios, covering hundreds of...
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Correspondence
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CORRESPONDENCE Never on Sunday Torn Bethell, in "Darwin in the Dock" (TAS, June 1992), flatteringly says that I am one of three (with Bill Bennetta and Kevin Padian) who are "passionately...
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Editorials/Just Whistle/The Real Enemy
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Tyrrell, R. Emmett Jr.
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EDITORIALS Just Whistle by R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. On the day that the morning news shows broadcast word of H. Ross Perot's historic leap to the top of the presidential polls, there was an...
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Capitol Ideas/De Sow in Peru
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Bethell, Tom
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De Soto in Peru by Tom Bethell Over the years, America has sent any number of sociologists and anthropologists abroad to study foreign societies. Few with any wisdom have come here to study ours....
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The BNL Scandal
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Adams, James Ring
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The BNL Scandal And how the Iran-contra investigation gave carte blanche to Saddam Hussein. by James Ring Adams Asultry Georgia weekend was just half an hour away for the staff on Friday, August...
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The Lady Macbeth of Little Rock
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Wattenberg, Daniel
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Daniel Wattenberg The Lady Macbeth of Little Rock Hillary Clinton's hard-left past and present. Hillary Clinton has been likened to Eva Peron, but it's a bad analogy. Evita was worshipped by the...
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American Document/Have We Seen the End of Banks?
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Brookes, Warren T.
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AMERICAN DOCUMENT Have We Seen the End of Banks? by Warren T. Brookes Acouple of years ago, the Cato Institute's Catherine England, who has written brilliantly on banking reform, was asked: "What...
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Eminentoes/A White Lie
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Flaherty, Michael K.
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A White Lie by Michael K. Flaherty T he estimated 500,000 men and women who marched for abortion rights in Washington last April were instructed by their leaders to dress in white, as a symbol of...
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Ben Stein's Diary/Guys and Dollars
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Stein, Benjamin J.
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shouldn't I fly the farthest and miss a few days of work to do it? The air was warm and damp when I got to New York. I checked into my tiny room at the hotel near Lincoln Center (part of my false...
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Presswatch/King's Jury
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Eastland, Terry
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King's Jury by Terry Eastland Like almost everyone else who watches television, I had seen the beating of Rodney King on videotape and concluded that the four Los Angeles police officers charged...
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Among the Intellectualoids/Streetcar Express
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Queenan, Joe
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Streetcar Express by Joe Queenan 4 4 ometimes," Blanche DuBois proclaims in an uncharacteristically chipper moment halfway through A Streetcar Named Desire, "there's God—so quickly." Yeah,...
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Russian Presswatch/Yesterday's Gone
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Young, Cathy
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Yesterday's Gone by Cathy Young Less than a year after the hardline coup in Moscow, Gorbachev, back from the United States, gives an interview to Komsomolskaya Pravda blasting Yeltsin for his...
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The Talkies/Lies We Live
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Bowman, James
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Lies We Live by James Bowman As I was coming out of Housesitter, directed by Frank Oz, I overheard someone say: "Well, that's nice, isn't it? Glorifying a pathological liar!" I have since read...
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Leonardo
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Bramly, Serge
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BOOK REVIEWS ying, and having D turned already to the Christian God Whom he had managed to sidestep most of his life, Leonardo da Vinci asked forgiveness for the scant attention he had given his...
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The Seven Fat Years
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Bartley, Robert L.
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Robert L. Bartley's moderate demeanor and measured prose disguise a true radical who specializes in demolishing myths. He has now delivered an assault on the conventional wisdom whose careful...
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Money of the Mind
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Grant, James
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English for the daily consumption of readers. As a result, most business writers rely on entire blocks of clauses that, considered in tranquility, are little more than automatic writing. Or they...
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The American Religion
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Bloom, Harold
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publicans have become one with the American Religion." Bloom never explains whether these various definitions carry equal weight; if they do, President Bush can presumably number gnosticism among...
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De Gaulle: The Ruler
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Lacouture, Jean
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Christianity, Judaism, the Bible—these, Bloom demolishes with ease. A few Republican Presidents, however, and the critic from Yale discovers he hasn't got a prayer. disagreed with De Gaulle is...
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The New Politics of Poverty
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Mead, Lawrence M.
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Only 16 percent of heads of households worked full time (as opposed to 58 percent in all income groups), and only 9 percent of female heads of households (40 percent among all income groups). By...
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The Art of Persuasion
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Bridges, Linda; Rickenbacker, William F.
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Bridges and William F. Rickenbackerwithout once mentioning Orwell's essay—propose to do something weird, something that Bridges and Rickenbacker (who purport to despise the rule against fancy words)...
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Current Wisdom
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Jackasses, Assorted
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CURRENT WISDOM New York Times Miss Kathleen Quinn resorts to a crafty heuristic device to demonstrate another of those immensities that elevate a dullard like this above the commonplace and into...
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