| LETTERS | 1 |
| Tilting at Windmills | 6 |
| Peters, Charles | |
| Exporting Idealism: The Right Kind of Intevention | 12 |
| Smith, Harden | |
| Whose Revolution Is This, Anyway? | 14 |
| editors, The | |
| Strangling Debtor Democracies | 18 |
| Rayfield, Gordon | |
| Shutting Off the Dissent Channel | 20 |
| Bird, Kai | |
| The Caucus-Happy Democrats | 24 |
| Barrett, Paul M. | |
| Loyal, But Angry | 26 |
| Wieck, Paul | |
| MEMO OF THE MONTH | 31 |
| Colonels in Every Corner | 32 |
| Luttwak, Edward N. | |
| A Lean, Mean Machine | 35 |
| L., E.N. | |
| Who Defines Defense? | 38 |
| Mintz, Morton | |
| Splitting the Difference: I Negotiated Contracts for the United States Navy | 43 |
| Beckett, Jamie | |
| Journalism Award | 47 |
| How They Write the SAT | 48 |
| OWEN, DAVID | |
| The Aptitude Zoo | 51 |
| O., D. | |
| POLITICAL PUZZLE | 53 |
| Barclay, John | |
| TIDBITS AND OUTRAGES | 55 |
| WHO's WHO in the Administration | 56 |
| POLITICAL BOOKNOTES | 57 |
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