| Letters | 1 |
| Tilting at windmills | 4 |
| Peters, Charles | |
| SHEEPSKINS are for SHEEP | 9 |
| Fallows, James | |
| Tidbits & outrages | 18 |
| TOMWOLFE at the keyboard | 20 |
| Nocera, Joseph | |
| THE SPY WHO WENT OUT IN THE COLD WAR | 28 |
| Bethell, Thomas N. | |
| 'Sic semper politics petroleum' | 38 |
| The BABBITT Test | 42 |
| Lemann, Nicholas | |
| Memo of the Month | 47 |
| Where to Stay in Washington | 48 |
| TEACHING COLLEGES A LESSON | 50 |
| Kaus, Robert M. | |
| THE CASE FOR CASES | 56 |
| Peters, Charles | |
| Who's Who in the Carter Administration | 58 |
| Getting Off The Money Standard | 59 |
| Slater, Philip | |
| political book notes | 63 |
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