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Paid articleThe Continuing Crisis
• April passed, and with it the age of Richard Nixon. Naturally, our thirty-seventh president was fulsomely mourned by those who'd hated him obsessively for the better part of the last fifty years....
Paid articleCorrespondence
CORRESPONDENCE The Men We Abandoned I was struck by the (obviously unintentional) contrasts in your February issue. The editor-in-chief praises David Brock for his "bold and accurate journalism,"...
Paid articleEditorials / Richard Nixon, R. I. P. / Muddlers Abroad
Tyrrell, R. Emmett Jr.
EDITORIALS Richard Nixon, R.I.P. by R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. A nd so a stroke felled former president Richard Nixon. His obi body had taken a lot of abuse. He had been a fixture in American life...
Paid articleCapitol Ideas / Welfare Wizards
Bethell, Tom
Welfare Wizards by Tom Bethell ome may not recall the feverish agitation in the press when Ronald Reagan became president. Every day there was this great whirring of wings, this incessant whine...
Paid articleDecontrol Freaks
Ledeen, Michael; Bryen, Stephen
Decontrol Freaks The Bush and Clinton administrations' unprecedented giveaway of secret military technology. by Michael Ledeen and Stephen Bryen uring the presidential campaign of 1992, Bill...
Paid articleOh, What a Tangled Webb
Novak, Robert D.; Novak, Zelda
Robert D. Novak and Zelda Novak Oh, What a Tangled Webb... Who Webster Hubbell was. E arly last year, as the Senate prepared to consider President Clinton's nomination of his good friend Webster...
Paid articleThe Travelgate Cover-Up
Brock, David
David Brock The Travelgate Cover-Up Hillary Clinton, Vincent Foster, David Watkins, William Kennedy, Harry Thomason, Patsy Thomasson, Betta Carney, Catherine Cornelius, Clarissa Cerda, Darnell...
Paid articlePresswatch / The Elves of Whitewater
Cony, John
The Elves of Whitewater by John Corry / n the end, it may be a novelist or playwright who will tell the Whitewater story best. The press, by and large, is ambivalent. It is aware of the moral...
Paid articleSpectator's Journal / Ferraro and Whitewater
Adams, James Ring
Ferraro and Whitewater by James Ring Adams H illary Clinton pulled off a Ferraro. Following advice from White House aides and Bigfoot Washington reporters, she finally held a full-length,...
Paid articleClinton's America/AIDS for Aides
York, Byron
AIDS for Aides by Byron York L ast September 30, Bill Clinton ordered every worker in the federal government to undergo AIDS awareness training. Despite its scope, the Federal Workplace AIDS...
Paid articleThe Nation's Pulse / The Clinton-Gore Incinerator
Fitzmaurice, Evan
The Clinton-Gore Incinerator by Evan Fitzmaurice / n a July 19, 1992 campaign speech in Weirton, West Virginia, Al Gore blasted Waste Technologies Industries (WTI), a hazardous waste incinerator...
Paid articleThe Public Policy / Gun Racket
Yost, Mark
Gun Racket by Mark Yost / t was an anti-gun obsessive's Christmas wish come true: a gun buyback program filling news pages and TV screens across the country with pictures not of gangland violence...
Paid articleBen Stein's Diary / Climb Every Mountain
Stein, Benjamin J.
Climb Every Mountain by Benjamin J. Stein Tuesday p aradise. I'm at The American Spectator's Washington Club dinner (see page 72). It's in a big room at The Four Seasons in Georgetown. I'm the...
Paid articlePolitics / Home Rule
Norquist, Grover G.
Home Rule by Grover G. Norquist W hile home schooling in the sixties and seventies was largely a liberal phenomenon—parents who wanted their children out of the conformist, bourgeois public...
Paid articleRussia Watch / Quiet Flow the Dons
Bernstein, Jonas
Quiet Flow the Dons by Jonas Bernstein S t. Petersburg seemed even more decayed than in December, when I was last there. As the train approached the city, the landscape was post-nuclear—sprawling,...
Paid articleAmerican Arts and Letters / Dwight Stuff
Lynn, Kenneth S.
Dwight Stuff by Kenneth S. Lynn young girls with orthodontia. Or the Muscovites now walking around with buttons reading: "Want to lose weight? Ask me how." While the average life expectancy for...
Paid articleThe Talkies /Proxysms
Bowman, James
Proxysms by James Bowman M ore and more it is beginning to seem as if the armies of postmodernism—dressed, I fancy, with comic opera panache and led by Leslie Nielsen as Lt. Frank Drebin in apron...
Paid articleIf You're Talking to Me, Your Career Must Be in Trouble
Queenan, Joe
BOOK REVIEWS M r. Pulitzer, meet Mr. Joe Queenan, the hottest, zaniest, most wacked-out young humorist this side of Dave Barry and P. J. O'Rourke, a Mark Twain for the '90s. That's what we call a...
Paid articleConquest
Thomas, Hugh
/ t was an amazing feat, the conquest of the mighty Aztec Empire by some 530 Spanish adventurers under the resourceful leadership of hidalgo Hernan Cortes in 1519-21. The story has had its Homer in...
Paid articleA Woman's Place
Margolies-Mezvinsky, Marjorie; Feinman, Barbara
W hen a white male member of Congress jokingly referred to Rep. Marjorie MargoliesMezvinsky as "the three-M girl," the freshman legislatrix tasted gall and wormwood. His sobriquet was "inaccurate,...
Paid articleThe Knights of Malta
Sire, H. J. A.
(D-Ore.) lifts hers from the first issue of Ms. magazine. "Oh my God, laundry! Are we supposed to do that? You mean that pile in the corner of the bedroom? It certainly would be nice to have a...
Paid articleHole in Our Soul
Bayles, Martha
T 4 4 oday," the philosopher Theodor Adorno began his treatise on aesthetics, "it goes without saying that nothing about modern art goes without saying." Born just after the turn of the century,...
Paid articleThe Spectator Spectator/A Reunion of Sorts
Kalnins, Ojars
THE SPECTATOR SPECTATOR Ojars Kalnins "A Reunion of Sorts . . . Reflections of an honored guest and past contributor on The American Spectator's annual Washington Club dinner. 9 9 A t The...
Paid articleCurrent Wisdom
Jackasses, Assorted
Rolling Stone Three weeks after the death of a pop idol, hope springs eternal: According to Nirvana's booker, it's still too early to determine whether Cobain will be well enough to participate in...
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