| The Continuing Crisis | 2 |
| Editorial / We Dedicate This Hole . . . /Johnny Eros | 4 |
| Tyrrell, R. Emmett Jr. | |
| Capitol Ideas / Proletarian Evolution | 5 |
| Bethell, Tom | |
| The Dilemmas of Conservatism I | 7 |
| Rodman, Peter W. | |
| The Dilemmas of Conservatism II | 13 |
| Wilson, James Q. | |
| The Matter with Reaganomics | 17 |
| Reynolds, Alan | |
| The Liberal World Confronts the Reagan Era | 20 |
| Nuechterlein, James | |
| Presswatch / Kicking Around Reagan | 24 |
| Barnes, Fred | |
| The Nation's Pulse / Reflections in a Silicon Eye | 26 |
| Kenner, Hugh | |
| The Talkies /Jogging to the Finland Station | 29 |
| Bayles, Martha | |
| Spectator's Journal / Population Lost | 30 |
| Wattenberg, Ben J. | |
| Among the Believers: An Islamic Journey | 32 |
| Naipaul, V. S. | |
| Monty: The Making of a General (1887-1942) | 34 |
| Hamilton, Nigel | |
| Mornings on Horseback | 36 |
| McCullough, David | |
| Within the Whirlwind | 38 |
| Ginzburg, Eugenia | |
| Presidential Anecdotes / The Oxford Book of American Literary Anecdotes | 39 |
| Boiler, Paul F. Jr. & Hall, Donald | |
| Correspondence | 41 |
| Current Wisdom | 42 |
| Jackasses, Assorted |
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