| The Continuing Crisis | 2 |
| Special Editorial | 2 |
| Tyrrell, R. Emmett Jr. | |
| Summer Reading / Ban the Soleil | 4 |
| Stillman, Whit | |
| Passages to India: Hindu Culture and Western Minds | 5 |
| Miller, Stephen | |
| Arabs in Antarctica | 10 |
| Homer, Charles | |
| Leonid, We Hardly Knew Ye | 13 |
| Lofton, J.D. | |
| Clausewitz: Visions of a Nuclear War | 15 |
| Seabury, Paul | |
| How To Pick Up a Woman's Magazine | 18 |
| Decter, Naomi | |
| Broadway: A Consumer's Guide | 20 |
| Clurman, Harold | |
| Capitol Ideas / HEW' s Silver Anniversary | 22 |
| Bethell, Tom | |
| The Nation's Pulse / Bakke: America's Oldest Medical Student | 24 |
| Rusthoven, Peter J. | |
| Mencken: A Study of His Thought, by Charles A. Fecher | 28 |
| Nolte, William H. | |
| Inventing America: Jefferson's Declaration of Independence,by Garry Wills | 30 |
| Brookhiser, Richard | |
| Grassroots: The Autobiography of George McGovern and Promises to Keep, by Robert Shogan | 32 |
| Nuechterlein, James A. | |
| Abba Eban: An Autobiography | 34 |
| Manor, F.S. | |
| Stained Glass, by William F. Buckley, Jr. | 36 |
| Mathews, Judy | |
| Correspondence | 40 |
| Current Wisdom | 41 |
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