| The Continuing Crisis | 6 |
| Correspondence | 7 |
| Editorials/Liberal Denial/Requiem for a Bum | 8 |
| Tyrrell, R. Emmett Jr. | |
| Capitol Ideas/Worst Book of the Year | 9 |
| Bethell, Tom | |
| The Reagan Doctrine | 12 |
| Fossedal, Gregory A. | |
| The Murray Imbroglio | 15 |
| Gilder, George | |
| The Banking Revolution | 19 |
| Oppenheimer, Franz M. | |
| The Dirty Secrets of Grenada | 22 |
| Puddington, Arch | |
| Manhattan Cut in Slices | 25 |
| Johnston, George Sim | |
| Presswatch/Standard Practices | 28 |
| Barnes, Fred | |
| Among the Educationaloids/Teachers' Tabloid | 30 |
| Finn, Chester E. Jr. | |
| The Talkies/Shawcross on Screen | 32 |
| Podhoretz, John | |
| Nomenklaturg" The Soviet Ruling Class | 35 |
| Voslensky, Michael | |
| Inside the Criminal Mind | 37 |
| Samenow, Stanton E. | |
| Hubert Humphrey: A Biography | 40 |
| Solberg, Carl | |
| The Paideia Program | 43 |
| Adler, Mortimer J. | |
| Double Visiot: How the Press Distorts America's View of the Middle East | 45 |
| Chafets, Ze'ev | |
| Son of the Morning Star | 46 |
| Connell, Evan S. | |
| The Great American Saloon Series/The Lion and Compass | 47 |
| Stein, Benjamin J. | |
| Current Wisdom | 51 |
| Jackasses, Assorted |
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