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Vol. 026 Issue 007 (July 1 1993)
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••Cover Page••
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••Contents••
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The Continuing Crisis
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• May—and happy days are here again: Mr. Rush Limbaugh's capitalistic exhortations turned out 35,000 decent Americans to Mr. Dan Kay's bake sale in Fort Collins, Colorado. Mr. Kay can now pay for...
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Correspondence
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U.S. News Clears Thomas of Sexual Harassment Charges In your recent excerpt from David Brock's new book, The Real Anita Hill ("The Other Anita Hill," TAS, May 1993), there was an error involving a...
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Editorials / Coat-and-Tie Radicals / Botching Bosnia
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Tyrrell, R. Emmett Jr.
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/agree with Hillary and Chelsea and Socks and all the other quaintly named boosters of our president. All around the White House the Best and the Brightest of the Republic's last two generations are...
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Capitol Ideas / Culture War II
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Bethell, Tom
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p atrick Buchanan has a new organization called the American Cause, whose supporters recently convened at the Shoreham Hotel in Washington. The topic was "Winning the Culture War." Ever since his...
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Angels on Broadway
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Kramer, Yale
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F rom the love that dare not speak its name to the love that can't shut up—in barely twenty-five years. Gays march on Washington. Gays want to come out in the military. Gays parley with the...
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Russia Votes Yes
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Young, Cathy
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Moscow M oscow streets in 1993 bring to mind those "find ten things that are wrong with this picture" games with a palm tree sticking out in the middle of a snowy mountainscape. Looking around as I...
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Time of Troubles
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Karatnycky, Adrian
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R ussia's "centrist" forces are not go-slow-reformers but proponents of a statist economy, who regard the disintegration of the USSR as a regrettable and reversible event. An extremist majority in...
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Wealth and Poverty Revisited
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Gilder, George
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Wealth and Poverty began its career as a modest tract, to be called "The Pursuit of Poverty," sharing a total advance of $8,000 with Visible Man, which sold some 800 copies in the first year and...
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American Document / The Liberty Manifesto
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O'Rourke, R J.
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T he Cato Institute has an unusual political cause—which is no political cause whatsoever. We are here tonight to dedicate ourselves to that cause, to dedicate ourselves, in other words, to ......
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Presswatch (I) / Counting the Days
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Eastland, Terry
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T here are many good reasons for the press not to take the pulse of a presidency after its first hundred days—a practice begun when Franklin Delano Roosevelt launched the New Deal upon taking office...
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Presswatch (II) / In God They Trust
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Cony, John
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everybody should have is Time's preference for hagiography over journalism. Carlson treats lightly the closed-door meetings of the health-care task force. She virtually neglects Hillary's role as...
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Ben Stein's Diary / Roots
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Stein, Benjamin J.
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Tuesday I don't like this at all. I awoke this morning with a pain in a rear upper tooth. The pain had been coming on for two weeks, but this morning it really hurt as I gargled Scope and drank my...
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Politics / What to Filibuster Next?
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Norquist, Grover G.
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me how much he liked my necktie. He told me he was trained as an economist, and he quickly found that he could maximize his utility by working as a wrestler instead of an economist. "My Dad's an...
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The Nation's Pulse / The Hate State
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Shiflett, Dave
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Denver W hen the Colorado Rockies opened their first homestand at Mile High Stadium on April 9 (Good Friday, as was pointed out with varying degrees of horror and glee), President Bill Clinton was...
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Spectator's Journal / Castroville
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Lynn, Kenneth S.
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and the usual horde of Americans. A visitor from the East looks around and asks how the protest is going; in the spirit of the day it is explained that the boycott, like the Rapture, is expected by...
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Among the Intellectualoids / The Book on Dave
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Gold, Victor
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D on't talk to me about the movie Dave. I've liked Kevin Kline as an actor since The Big Chill, and think enough of his co-star Sigourney Weaver to have sat through an entire performance of a...
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The Talkies / All Shook Up
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Bowman, James
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T his month's movies are about mix-ups in love. In Dave, a wife (a fictional first lady) realizes a persistent wifely fantasy and finds in her husband a new man—because he really is a new man. In...
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The Real Anita Hill
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Brock, David
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T his is one of those rare books that is best begun—as is the Bible—last chapter first. Both books hold another similarity, to wit, both are books of revelation; but whereas the Bible is also...
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Declining Fortunes
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Newman, Katherine S.
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than any other that has seen its chances at a middle-class existence slip.) Their problem is not that they are excluded from the middle class but that they are excluded from what has become, thanks...
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Flaubert
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Troyat, Henri
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T his estimable biography recounts one of the strangest and saddest lives that any artist has lived. At the age of twelve, the precocious Flaubert is already playing the misanthrope in a letter to...
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Rockets and Rodeos
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Mallon, Thomas
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R eaders of TAS already know the work of Thomas Mallon; eight of the twelve pieces in this collection were originally published here. Ranging in length from four to forty-two pages, and in setting...
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A Place Among Nations
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Netanyahu, Benjamin
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1 n 1985, the Kuwaiti newspaper Al-Rai Al-Am called Benjamin Netanyahu "the enemy's most dangerous agent abroad." ("The enemy," of course, being Israel, not Iraq.) More recently, State Department...
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Hitter
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Linn, Ed
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What everybody doesn't know, and what Ed Linn points out in this absolutely marvelous book, is that Williams outhit Joe DiMaggio during the latter's record 56-game hitting streak that glorious...
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Current Wisdom
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Jackasses, Assorted
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New York Times The venerable Times's proud successor to the likes of Arthur Krock and James Reston, Miss Anna Quindlen, addresses a ptrsonal bull to the president of the United States in the...
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The Middlebury Spectator / Fratfalls
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Hume, Sandy
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A college buddy of mine called a few weeks ago to deliver the news that Delta Upsilon, our old fraternity at Vermont's Middlebury College, has been placed on "indefinite probation" after a...
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