| The Continuing Crisis | 8 |
| EditoriallUnheavenly Cities | 10 |
| Tyrrell, R. Emmett Jr. | |
| Correspondence/An Appeal from P J. O'Rourke | 12 |
| Capitol Ideas/Sonny California | 15 |
| Bethell, Tom | |
| Fidel's World | 18 |
| Symmes, Patrick | |
| There's No Accounting for Congress | 24 |
| McFadden, Edward | |
| Fetal Attraction | 30 |
| Fumento, Michael | |
| The International Pulse/Why Spy? | 38 |
| Haselkorn, Avigdor | |
| The Nation's Pulse/A Hero of the Cold War | 42 |
| Puddington, Arch | |
| Ben Stein's Diary/The Road to Surfdom | 44 |
| Stein, Benjamin J. | |
| Presswatch/Hil/'s Rats | 48 |
| Eastland, Terry | |
| The Talkies/Fashion Plays | 52 |
| Bowman, James | |
| Jefferson Davis | 54 |
| Davis, William C. | |
| The Vital South | 58 |
| Black, Earl Black and Merle | |
| The Chairman | 59 |
| Bird, Kai | |
| Black Water | 60 |
| Oates, Joyce Carol | |
| The Soviet Mafia | 61 |
| Vaksberg, Arkady | |
| Current Wisdom | 64 |
| Jackasses, Assorted |
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