| Correspondence | 2 |
| Editorials | 3 |
| An editor's notebook | 4 |
| Steinfels, Margaret O'Brien | |
| Europe's scrambled egg | 5 |
| Broun, Janice | |
| He who rides a Wildcat... | 6 |
| Anderson, Chris | |
| The character issue | 8 |
| McCarthy, Abigail | |
| Blame the message | 9 |
| Carlin, David R. Jr. | |
| Waiting for the Messiah | 11 |
| Hertzberg, Arthur | |
| A wounded church | 13 |
| Howard, Richard A. | |
| The threat of peace | 16 |
| Polner, Murray | |
| Screen | 19 |
| Alleva, Richard | |
| Poetry | 20 |
| Perrault, John | |
| Stage | 21 |
| Weales, Gerald | |
| Talking It Over | 22 |
| Wheeler, Edward T. | |
| The Deluge | 24 |
| O'Connor, Mark | |
| The De-Valuing of America | 25 |
| Mayer, William G. | |
| The Portable Beat Reader | 26 |
| Isbell, Harold |
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