| The Continuing Crisis | 6 |
| Correspondence | 7 |
| Editorials/The Left Unscathed/Jesse Steals the Show | 8 |
| Tyrrell, R. Emmett Jr. | |
| Capitol Ideas/The Giant Rat of Kenya | 9 |
| Bethell, Tom | |
| Creeping Capitalism in Soviet Russia | 12 |
| Young, Cathy | |
| Conference Hopping in the Evil Empire | 16 |
| Strmecki, Marin | |
| Should We Help Gorbachev? | 18 |
| Nixon, Richard | |
| Pishposh from the 1980s | 22 |
| Fumento, Michael & Pietrzyk, Mark | |
| Spectator's Journal/The Mandela Dilemma | 24 |
| Morrison, Micah | |
| Presswatch/On the Record | 26 |
| Eastland, Terry | |
| Among the Intellectualoids/Zoo Story | 28 |
| Queenan, Joe | |
| The Talkies/Ego Trips | 29 |
| Bawer, Bruce | |
| The Great American Saloon Series/When Irish Guys Are Slinging | 31 |
| Mysak, Joe | |
| Hemingway in Love and War | 32 |
| Villard, Henry Serrano & Nagel, James | |
| The Diary of H. L. Mencken | 34 |
| Fecher, Charles A. | |
| Ghosts on the Roof | 36 |
| Teachout, Terry | |
| Vladimir Nabokov | 38 |
| Bruccoli, Dmitri Nabokov and Matthew J. | |
| Straight Shooting | 39 |
| Silber, John | |
| Current Wisdom | 43 |
| Jackasses, Assorted |
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