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IssueVol. 028 Issue 005 (May 1 1995)
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Paid articleThe Continuing Crisis
• March came in like a lamb and left like a louse. Everyone wanted a little more winter. Our President jogs less frequently in winter, and when he does he usually covers his legs. There was a day...
Paid articleCorrespondence
CORRESPONDENCE Whale of a Tale David Andrew Price ("Save the Whalers," TAS, February 1995) believes that brutality toward a species is justified so long as there is no danger of exterminating that...
Paid articleEditorials/ Chip on My Shoulder/Moving on Mena
Tyrrell, R. Emmett Jr.
EDITORIALS Chip on My Shoulder by R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. Las Vegas M y travels have taken me through much of the industri- alized world. I have even vis- ited parts of the Third World. For...
Paid articleCapitol Ideas/Aid Affects Everyone
Bethell, Tom
Aid Affects Everyone by Tom Bethell L ouis Menand, who teaches English at the City University of New York (formerly City College), published an interesting defense of professionalism the other day....
Paid articleWhy the GOP Does Not, Like, Totally Suck
O'Rourke, P J.
Why the GOP Does Not, Like, Totally Suck Mr. and Mrs. American Spectator Reader, let P.J. O'Rourke talk sense to your kids. by P.J. O'Rourke D o you have a mopey young person in your family?...
Paid articleThe Color of California
Rabkin, Jeremy A.
Jeremy A. Rabkin The Color of California A popular citizens' initiative could restore the color-blindness promised by the Civil Rights Act of 1964—unless the courts intervene to rescue...
Paid articleWhat Gulf War Syndrome?
Fumento, Michael
Michael Fumento What Gulf War Syndrome? Did the Gulf War make you sick? The White House thinks so, and so does Sen. Jay Rockefeller. But why do all the doctors disagree? I t has become a ritual...
Paid articleDinosaurs and Desperados
Caldwell, Christopher
Christopher Caldwell Dinosaurs and Desperados The economy will be fine. Mexico's problem is the mind-boggling corruption of its ruling party—which is discovering it cannot co-exist with...
Paid articleThe Public Policy/Building Blocks
Frum, David
Building Blocks by David Frum F ix it in Washington or in the states? All at once or bit by bit? That's the choice Republicans are facing as they prepare to reform welfare. And the longer you think...
Paid articlePresswatch /Back in the Saddle Again
Cony, John
Back in the Saddle Again by John Corry 1 t is scoundrel time again. You knew the Republicans have no compassion when you read the New York Times's quote of the day. It always appears in a box on...
Paid articleClinton's America/Photo-Op Cops
Barnes, John A.
CLINTON'S AMERICA Photo-Op Cops by John A. Barnes T he day after the House of Representatives unexpectedly rejected President Clinton's gun-controlling, pork-laden crime bill last August, the...
Paid articleBen Stein's Diary /Poetry in Motion
Stein, Benjamin J.
BEN STEIN'S DIARY Poetry in Motion by Benjamin J. Stein Saturday It's bitterly cold here in Washington. But I have convinced old Maw and Paw to go for a walk with me down to the Sequoia...
Paid articleThe Great American Saloon Series / Pilgrim's Progress
Jr, Aram Bakshian
Pilgrim's Progress by Aram Bakshian, Jr. / is eleven in the evening, and outside the front entrance of Washington's Mayflower Hotel, on Connecticut Avenue, a gaggle of cabbies—Pakistani, Iranian,...
Paid articlePolitics /Color TV
Norquist, Grover G.
Color TV by Grover G. Norquist S ince 1978, selling radio and broadcast licenses to preferred racial groups has meant a generous tax break for the seller. The tax preferences can reach astonishing...
Paid articleChechnya Watch / Shah Graves
Bernstein, Jonas
Shali Graves by Jonas Bernstein B ouncing down a road on the outskirts of Nazran in a Russian jeep filled with four drunken Ingush teenagers (one of them at the wheel), and a reggae singer shouting...
Paid articleThe Talkies/Message Parlor
Bowman, James
Message Parlor by James Bowman 0 for the days when Sam Goldwyn could tell his precious "creative" folk that if they wanted to send a message, they should call Western Union! Message movies started...
Paid articleThe Bill
Waldman, Steven
BOOK REVIEWS 0 f the three major books published so far about Bill Clinton's administration-inprogress, Steven Waldman's The Bill may be the best, and the one most likely to last. It has a narrower...
Paid articleOn the Origins of War and the Preservation of Peace
Kagan, Donald
The moral of Donald Kagan's wise and compelling book was summed up neatly by the Roman military commentator Flavius Vegetius—si vis pacem, para bellum: "If you want peace, prepare for war." Kagan,...
Paid articleMasters of Deception
Slatalla, Michelle; Quittner, Joshua
Like Pike, the late Peckinpah shared Huck Finn's instinct to "light out for the territory ahead of the rest"; and even though the territory has long since been tamed, this craving for a primitive...
Paid articleEdison
Baldwin, Neil
A fter meeting Thomas Alva Edison on a transatlantic liner, Henry James described him in a letter as "the great bland simple deaf street-boy-faced Edison." True, but nineteenth-century America liked...
Paid articleThe Revolt of the Elites and the Betrayal of Democracy
Lasch, Christopher
T he late historian Christopher Lasch began as a man of the left, but in later years his blasts against the decline of the family and the flight from communal responsibilities to personal rights...
Paid articleCurrent Wisdom
Jackasses, Assorted
New York Times The illustrious Times courageously revises its view of the McCarthy Horrors: The obituary of former Senator J. William Fulbright of Arkansas on Feb. 10 misidentified the politician...
Paid articleThe Anglo-Irish Spectator/ The Wolfman Cometh
Reid, Stuart
The Wolfman Cometh by Stuart Reid London F or a while there in March it looked bad. This time the Yanks had gone too far. In tacos bars, in bowling alleys, at Safeway checkouts—wherever Englishmen...
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