| The Continuing Crisis | 8 | 
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| Correspondence | 9 | 
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| Editorials/Stupefying Imbeciles/NBC's "Yesterday" Show | 10 | 
| Tyrrell, R. Emmett Jr. | 
| Capitol Ideas/Defenseless Cowards | 11 | 
| Bethell, Tom | 
| The Unfinished Reagan Agenda | 14 | 
| Novak, Robert D. | 
| A Banana Republic Baedeker | 16 | 
| McGurn, William | 
| Those Were the Days: The SDS Revisited | 18 | 
| Puddington, Arch | 
| The Big Fix | 21 | 
| Adams, James Ring | 
| Among the Intellectualoids/Quark Bites | 25 | 
| Queenan, Joe | 
| The Business of America/Some Like It Hot | 26 | 
| Stelzer, Irwin M. | 
| Presswatch/Androgyny and Dr. Broder | 28 | 
| Eastland, Terry | 
| The Talkies/The Winter of Our Discontent | 30 | 
| Bawer, Bruce | 
| The Washington Spectator/Bush Bash | 33 | 
| Ferguson, Andrew | 
| City for Sale | 34 | 
| Newfield, Jack & Barrett, Wayne | 
| The Limits of Social Policy | 36 | 
| Glazer, Nathan | 
| Family Questions / The Family Wage | 38 | 
| Carlson, Allan C. & al, Bryce Christensen, et. | 
| Harvard Diary/ That Red Wheelbarrow | 40 | 
| Coles, Robert | 
| Liability | 42 | 
| Huber, Peter | 
| High Noon in Lincoln | 44 | 
| Utley, Robert M. | 
| Books You May Have Missed/A Reconsideration of Redcliffe N. Salaman's The History and Social Influence of the Potato | 46 | 
| Luttwak, Edward N. | 
| Current Wisdom | 49 | 
| Jackasses, Assorted |