| The Continuing Crisis | 2 |
| Editorial/Cavemen on die Hill | 4 |
| Tyrrell, R. Emmett Jr. | |
| Capitol Ideas/Archaic Notions | 5 |
| Bethell, Tom | |
| The Reagan Administration and the Common Defense | 7 |
| Pfaltzgraff, Robert L. Jr. | |
| Books for Christmas | 13 |
| The Playboy and the Czar: Images of Insatiability | 19 |
| Sisk, John P. | |
| The Good Dog Richard Affair | 25 |
| Gannon, Frank | |
| The Nation's Pulse/Bedpan Hospitality | 31 |
| Haag, Ernest van den | |
| Presswatch/Speaking for Supply | 32 |
| Barnes, Fred | |
| Malcolm Muggeridge: A Life | 35 |
| Hunter, Ian | |
| Dean Rusk | 36 |
| Cohen, Warren I. | |
| Never Complain, Never Explain: The Story of Henry Ford II | 39 |
| Lasky, Victor | |
| Blue Smoke & Mirrors | 40 |
| Germond, Jack W & Witcover, Jules | |
| Special Correspondence / On Behalf of Hadley Arkes and Leslie Gelb | 42 |
| Rodman, Peter W. & Robinson, Daniel N. & Jaffa, Harry V. | |
| Index for Volume | 44 |
| The Current Wisdom | 46 |
| Jackasses, Assorted |
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