| The Continuing Crisis | 2 |
| Editorial/The Race Begins | 4 |
| Tyrrell, R. Emmett Jr. | |
| Capitol Ideas/Cold War Vistas...Guerrilla-Chic...One Grant, One Vote...Newsweek Gas | 5 |
| Bethell, Tom | |
| Indochina & Left-Wing Escapism | 7 |
| Gershman, Carl | |
| Beadle Bumble, Meet the Feds | 11 |
| Baldwin, Fred D. | |
| The Unceremonious American | 12 |
| Sisk, John P. | |
| Corporations, Our Corporations | 17 |
| Dickman, Howard | |
| Politics on Tap | 20 |
| Nollson, John | |
| The Great American Saloon Series/Boston's Union Oyster House | 22 |
| Bartholomew, Douglas | |
| The Talkies/Movie Gangs | 24 |
| Podhoretz, John | |
| The Neoconservatives: The Men Who Are Changing America's Politics | 26 |
| Steinfels, Peter | |
| Shall America Be Defended?: SALT II And Beyond | 28 |
| Graham, Daniel O. | |
| Jimmy Carter: The Man & The Myth | 31 |
| Lasky, Victor | |
| How The Soviet Union is Governed | 32 |
| Hough, Jerry & Fainsod, Merle | |
| Adventures of a Bystander | 34 |
| Drucker, Peter F. | |
| Chamber Music | 34 |
| Grumbach, Doris | |
| Correspondence | 36 |
| Current Wisdom | 38 |
| Jackasses, Assorted |
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