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 Vol. 026 Issue 001 (January 1 1993)
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••Cover Page••
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••Contents••
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 The Continuing Crisis
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The Continuing Crisis - November is as a do do! It is also the month Americans celebrate Thanksgiving, and this year the turkey came early. On the other hand, twelve years of incomparable Democratic whining may be at an...
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Coorespondence
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Coorespondence - Chill Factors Arriving as it did near the eve of Halloween, Grover Norquist's article ("The Coming Clinton Dynasty," TAS, November 1992) was a chilling tale appropriately aimed at conservatives...
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Editorials/ A Quarter-Century/ It's a boy
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Tyrell, R. Emmett Jr.
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"Editorials/ A Quarter-Century/ It's a boy" This magazine is now twenty-five years old. That is old enough to drink and to vote; and, if you review the choices we had in the late election, it helped to do both simultaneously. I founded...
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Captiol Ideas/Geaorgia (Ave.) on My Mind
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Bethell, Tom
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"Captiol Ideas/Geaorgia (Ave.) on My Mind" A week before the election I had dinner with a group of British journalists. All had recently arrived in the country, all had bought copies of the "Gennifer Flowers" issue of Penthouse at...
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The Bush Crack-Up
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Hume, Brit
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"The Bush Crack-Up" The post-election air over Washington is filled with the cries of disap pointed Republicans that George Bush's convincing, yet not over whelming, defeat could have been averted if only the...
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It's My Party
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Norquist, Grover
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"It's My Party" Grover Norquist It's My Party... Upcoming elections for the leadership of the Republican National Committee and key congressional posts will determine whether the GOP settles for the...
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. . . And I'll Cry if I Want to
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Ferguson, Tim W.
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". . . And I'll Cry if I Want to" Tim W. Ferguson . . . And I'll Cry if I Want to California leads the way down. Los Angeles conservatives in most parts of America come off the 1992 election disappointed but fatalistic....
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Harvard's New Interior Minister
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Wattenberg, Daniel
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"Harvard's New Interior Minister" In 1981, Tomas Borge brought bureaucratic order to political murder in Nicaragua. Exasperated by the "anarchical fashion" in which the regime had been dispatching opponents since the July 1979...
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The Queer Fellows
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Horowitz, David
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"The Queer Fellows" specter is haunting the American academy, the last refuge of the political left. It is the specter of "queer theory." Amidst the din and clatter of utopias crashing messily to earth, the...
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The Great American Saloon Series: Escapes From Clinton's America
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"The Great American Saloon Series: Escapes From Clinton's America" One of history's commonplaces is that the progressive left exalts esoteric pleasures, like ferrets, Frisbee, and macrobiotic food, over basic ones like dogs, football, and booze. That makes us...
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Eminentoes/Phoo,Menchú
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Schwartz, Stephen
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"Eminentoes/Phoo,Menchú" The award of the Nobel Peace Prize to Guatemalan revolutionary advocate Rigoberta Menchti is a multiple score for political correctness, serving not only the obvious aims of Columbus-bashers and...
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The Nation's Pulse/Warren Remembrance
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Fontaine, Roger; Hannaford, Peter
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"The Nation's Pulse/Warren Remembrance" At 2 o'clock on the afternoon of June 20, 1923, President Warren Gamaliel Harding, his wife, and a traveling party of sixty-three guests, officials, aides, and reporters boarded the train that...
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Spectator's Journal/Lebanon: A Traveler's Confession
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Norden, Edward
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"Spectator's Journal/Lebanon: A Traveler's Confession" Dual citizenship was not without advantages. For example, first as a journalist on his own with an American passport, then as an Israeli in army uniform escorting foreign journalists to the...
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Ben Stein's Diarylrears and Cheers
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Stein, Benjamin J.
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"Ben Stein's Diarylrears and Cheers" Wednesday Here I am again in Heber Springs, Arkansas, visiting my hero father-in-law. It's a warm, dry day, and time for little me to visit the local school. I'm interested in education, plus I'm...
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Presswatch/Crossing the Line
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Eastland, Terry
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"Presswatch/Crossing the Line" Confronted with information showing that the three major networks gave George Bush a tougher time than Bill Clinton, NBC's political director, Bill Wheatley, told the Washington Post that there...
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The Talkies/Hit List
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Bowman, James
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"The Talkies/Hit List" It may not seem a significant coincidence to you, but the new Dracula's coming along at the same time as The American Spectator's Twenty-Fifth Anniversary got me to thinking. To amuse myself, I made...
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Screening History (Gore Vidal)
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Simon, John
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"Screening History (Gore Vidal)" Gore Vidal's Screening History comprises three lectures in the field of American Civilization that the author delivered at Harvard. The ostensible subject is how the movies, by their way of...
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Kissinger (Walter Isaacson)
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Szamuely, George
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"Kissinger (Walter Isaacson)" until too late, and few ever know where their money is until the Savings and Loan system collapses." But he promptly lapses into sterile cynicism again, funny but wrong-headed: "Those interested...
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Hitler and Stalin (Alan Bullock)
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Shattan, Joseph
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"Hitler and Stalin (Alan Bullock)" internationalist goals like human rights. (The most scathing pages of Kissinger are devoted to Senator Henry Jackson who, in linking U.S.-Soviet trade agreements with the exit of Soviet Jews, was...
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My Life in Politics (Willy Brandt)
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Gedmin, Jeffrey
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"My Life in Politics (Willy Brandt)" To many Americans, alas, the subject matter of Lord Bullock's book is virtually ancient history. Now that Germany and Russia are both democracies, why dwell on the past? What difference can it...
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The System (Georgi Arbatov)
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Puddington, Arch
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"The System (Georgi Arbatov)" on the world stage today. Remember during the Gulf crisis, the Germans finally agreed that Saddam had to be stopped they just opposed their own involvement in Operation Desert Storm. Now as the...
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American Energies (Sven Birkerts)
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Carnegie, M.D.
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"American Energies (Sven Birkerts)" Soviet policies hardly differed in its essentials from the Brezhnev line. Moscow had sent a "military contingent" to its neighbor "to help the government formed after the revolution . . . ward off...
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Populism and Elitism (Jeffrey Bell)
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Tucker, William
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"Populism and Elitism (Jeffrey Bell)" discussed since, chastised writers for leaving reality to the journalists and rebutted recent laments, like Philip Roth's, that the real world had become hyperreal, daily discharging in the news...
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Impostors in the Temple (Martin Anderson) and The Idea of the University (Jaroslav Pelikan)
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Myers, D. G.
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"Impostors in the Temple (Martin Anderson) and The Idea of the University (Jaroslav Pelikan)" Too much has already been said about the present crisis in the university, and these books say even more. Yet they (and the subject itself) have a claim on conservatives' attention. As Martin...
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Current Wisdom
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Jackasses, Assorted
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"Current Wisdom" International Herald Tribune A dubious pitch for funds from 52,000 members of the Federation of International Civil Servants' Associations: An open letter to the Fifth Committee of the UN General...
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