| Editorial / The Voice Grows Louder | 4 |
| Tyrrell, R. Emmett Jr. | |
| Capitol Ideas / Mission to America | 5 |
| Bethell, Tom | |
| The Continuing Crisis | 7 |
| Whatever Happened to America? | 8 |
| Decter, Midge | |
| Whatever Happened to Liberalism? | 11 |
| Cranston, Maurice | |
| Riposte from the Left | 16 |
| Lekachman, Robert | |
| The True Liberal | 20 |
| Auspitz, Josiah Lee | |
| Sex/Back to Nature | 29 |
| Dannhauser, Werner J. | |
| Media / The Road to Anthony Lewis | 30 |
| Rodman, Peter W. | |
| Politics/The Party's Over | 32 |
| O'Lessker, Karl | |
| Religion / Claptrap Christians | 35 |
| Wilson, Ellen | |
| Intelligentsia / Among the Infrallectuals | 37 |
| Meyerson, Adam | |
| Labor/The Union Label | 38 |
| Puddington, Arch | |
| Finance/Who's Minding the Mint? | 40 |
| Grant, James | |
| Professional Sports/The Decline and Fafl of the Sports Empire | 42 |
| Nisbet, Robert | |
| Academia/ After the Debauch | 45 |
| Lynn, Kenneth S. | |
| Where Do We Go From Here? | 46 |
| The Best of Current Wisdom | 54 |
| Jackasses, The Usual | |
| Index for Volume 15 | 55 |
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