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Vol. 028 Issue 006 (June 1 1995)
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The Continuing Crisis
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• April has passed, but not the opportunity to do something unusual in this column. For years it has been based in part on the scraps of idiocy and grotesquerie sent to us by a reader of uncommon...
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Correspondence
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CORRESPONDENCE Fuming I just finished reading, with glee, Joe Queenan's completely hilarious "The Week of Smoking Dangerously" (TAS, March 1995). What chutzpah! As a nonsmoker, I found myself...
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Editorials/The Healer as Heel/FDR Cracked Up
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Tyrrell, R. Emmett Jr.
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EDITORIALS The Healer as Heel by R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. I can think of no president in our history so cheap and hollow as to exploit the anguish of the Oklahoma City bombing in the way Bill...
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Capitol Ideas/Land Reform Lost Vietnam
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Bethell, Tom
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Land Reform Lost Vietnam by Tom Bethell When it came, the collapse in Saigon was more sudden than anticipated. President Thieu, it turned out, had very little support among his own people. This...
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Judges of Sale
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Rabkin, Jeremy A.
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Judges for Sale Federal judges and Supreme Court justices get gifts and perks from vested interests that would cause outrage in any other branch of government. by Jeremy A. Rabkin C ritics have...
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End Welfare Reform as We Know It
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Gilder, George
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George Gilder End Welfare Reform as We Know It In its zeal to rush welfare moms to work and track down deadbeat dads, the right is just as wrong as the left. Does it make any sense to "reform"...
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The New Cold War Revisionism
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Ledeen, Michael
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Michael Ledeen The New Cold War Revisionism As new information is resolving old controversies, the New York Times reverts to its habit of covering up Soviet disinformation—even if that means...
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Ron Brown's Booty
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York, Byron
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Byron York Ron Brown's Booty The Commerce Secretary's splashy involvement with high-roller Nolanda Hill in spinning deals out of government connections is only the tip of the iceberg. He'll soon...
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Presswatch/The Death of Kara Hultgreen
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Corry, John
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The Death of Kara Hultgreen by John Corry j ournalistically, the case seemed clear. An injustice had been done, but now it would be rectified. As Peter Jennings said on the ABC "Evening News,"...
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The Public Policy/UP From Subsidy
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Frum, David
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W hich matters more: friends or principles? This dilemma afflicts all political parties, but seldom does the wrong choice bristle with as much danger as it now does for the new congressional...
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Spectator's Journal/Kurds in the Way
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Haselkorn, Avigdor
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Kurds in the Way by Avigdor Haselkorn I n recent weeks the U.S. State Department has expressed increasing displeasure with the continuing incursion of Turkish forces into northern Iraq. Yet it is...
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Ben Stein's Diary/Full Service
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Stein, Benjamin J.
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Full Service by Benjamin J. Stein Monday A call from my pal, Lenny. He's been my bud for almost twenty years now. I've seen him go up and down on the income ladder, as a big executive at United...
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Among the Intellectualoids/Rally of the Dolls
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Labash, Matt
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Rally of the Dolls by Matt Labash N 9 eath the shadowed phallus of the Washington Monument, one couldn't help but think there had to be a better way to run a revolution. The National...
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Politics/Contract Extension
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Norquist, Grover G.
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Contract Extension by Grover G. Norquist N ine months ago, Republican candidates for the House stood on the steps of the Capitol and offered America a deal: if voters would give the GOP their first...
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The Talkies/It's a Man's World
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Bowman, James
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It's a Man's World by James Bowman W hen Charles Keating (yes, that Charles Keating) of the Citizens for Decent Literature said back in the 1960s that "more than anyone of his time, Russ Meyer is...
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The Age of Extremes
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Hobsbawm, Eric
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BOOK REVIEWS N ow in his early eighties, Eric Hobsbawm belongs to an age when humanist scholars thought in broad strokes. Like E.P. Thompson or A.J.P. Taylor, he is one of those great English...
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The Neoconservative Imagination/The De-Moralization of Society
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DeMuth, Christopher; Kristol, William; Himmelfarb, Gertrude
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T he Neoconservative Imagination is a kind of executive summary of the life and thought of Irving Kristol. Co-edited by William Kristol, his son, and Christopher DeMuth, president of the...
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Tom Paine
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Keane, John
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B y the time he died in 1809, Thomas Paine was well on his way to becoming the forgotten founder. The author of the period's most influential and widely read political tract, a catalyst in the...
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John Steinbeck
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Parini, Jay
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/ 6 6 f you loved a book," Raymond Chandler always advised, "don't meet the author." The rule holds for this exhaustive biography of John Steinbeck. To Jay Parini, a poet and novelist who teaches...
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In Retrospect
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McNamara, Robert S.; Mark, Brian Ban De
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"Can anyone remember a public official with the courage to confess error and explain where he and his country went wrong?" —Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. from the dust jacket of In Retrospect N ow that...
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The Secret World of American Comniunism
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Klehr, Harvey; Haynes, John Earl; Firsov, Fridrikh Igorevich
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F or those who were startled to learn that Joseph Alsop was homosexual, or that Oprah Winfrey once used cocaine, the contents of this book will come as something of a shock. For while the authors'...
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Current Wisdom
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Jackasses, Assorted
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Syracuse Herald American To the advice column of an honored American daily, the Hillary Rodham Clinton of greater Syracuse pens a bold bull: Dear Pat: My therapist has encouraged me to write you...
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The MOW Spectator/Our Divorce Culture
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Pleszczynski, Wladyslaw
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Our Divorce Culture by Wladyslaw Pleszczynski T here's a certain order to these things that I've come to expect. In San Diego this April, I was lucky enough to see an America's Cup trial in which...
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