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      1. The Roots of Treason by E. Fuller Torrey
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        The Persistent Prejudice by Michael Schwartz
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        Required Writing by Philip Larkin
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        The Heretics of Dune by Frank Herbert
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        The History and Impact of Marxist-Leninist Organizational Theory by John P. Roche
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        Endless Enemies by Jonathan Kwitny
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        Reflections of Nazism by Saul Friedlander
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        Adieux: A Farewell to Sartre by Simone de Beauvoir
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        The Structure of Obscurity by Randa Dubnick
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        Zanuck: The Rise and Fall of Hollywood's Last Tycoon by Leonard Mosley
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        The Bostonians (1984 Film) by James Ivory
    13. Letter from Budapest by Thomas Molnar, pp. 34-35
    14. Polemics & Exchanges by Jay Williamson, p. 36
    15. Prof. Steensma Replies , p. 36
    16. Who Cares? by Harry Zoylus, p. 37
    17. Commedia dell'Arte , p. 37
    18. The American Proscenium, pp. 37-38
    19. Journalism, p. 39
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      1. Rates of Exchange by Malcolm Bradbury
      2. The Island of Crimea by Vassily Aksyonov
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      1. Arsenal: Understanding Weapons in the Nuclear Age by Kosta Tsipis
      2. Weapons and Hope by Freeman Dyson
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      Bulgarian Death Squad by Charles A. Moser, pp. 12-14 - 2 Reviews
      1. The Truth That Killed by Georgi Markov
      2. The Time of the Assassins by Claire Sterling
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      1. Local Knowledge by Clifford Geertz
    6. Essay: The Literature of Order by Russell Kirk, pp. 18-19
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      1. The Economics and Politics of Race by Thomas Sowell
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        Dream of Christian Socialism by Bernard Murchland
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        Shaving the Monkey, p. 22 - 1 Review
        The Nature of the Beast by Stephen R.L. Clark
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        Crows on the Barn Roof, p. 23 - 1 Review
        Some of the Things I Did Not Do by Janet Beeler Shaw
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        Great Saladin, p. 24 - 1 Review
        Saladin in His Time by P.H. Newby
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        A Tale of Modern Times, pp. 24-25 - 1 Review
        The Dungeon Master by William C. Dear
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        Places in the Heart (1984 Film) by Robert Benton
      2. Truffaut, p. 28
    12. Polemics & Exchanges by Louis Dupre, p. 29
    13. Prof. Congdon Replies , p. 29
    14. The American Proscenium, p. 30
    15. Mirror Mirror on the Wall , p. 30
    16. Spanish Ayes , p. 30
    17. Journalism, pp. 31-32
    18. Book-Burning and Worse , p. 33
    19. The Ingersoll Prizes, pp. 34-35
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    1. Private Faith & Public Schools by Bryce Christensen, pp. 4-5
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      Church +/- State by James Hitchcock and George M. Marsden, pp. 6-7 - 1 Review
      1. The Naked Public Square by Richard John Neuhaus
    3. In the Mail, p. 8
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      1. Enderby's Dark Lady by Anthony Burgess
      2. The Paper Men by William Golding
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      1. Charles de Gaulle: A Biography by Don Cook
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      1. The Land of Ulro by Czeslaw Milosz
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        Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
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        Purity and Danger by Mary Douglas
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        Target America by James L. Tyson
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        Infante's Inferno by G. Cabrera Infante
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        The Japanese: Everyday Life in the Empire of the Rising Sun by Jean-Claude Courdy
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        Philosophy and Science Fiction by Michael Philips
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        Falling in Love (1984 Film) by Ulu Grosbard
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        The Terminator (1984 Film) by James Cameron
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        Inventing the News by Herbert London, p. 32 - 1 Review
        The Killing Fields (1984 Film) by Roland Joffe
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        Humor and Intelligence, pp. 32-33 - 1 Review
        Comfort and Joy (1984 Film) by Bill Forsyth
    13. American Proscenium, pp. 34-35
    14. Typefaces, p. 36
    15. Polemics & Exchanges by Roy Traband, p. 37
    16. Mr. Dragash Replies , pp. 37-38
    17. A Prudent Progressive, p. 39
    18. On the Cover by Warren Chappell
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    1. Saving the Humanities by Ewa M. Thompson, pp. 4-5
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      Inventing Lost Worlds by E. Christian Kopff, pp. 6-7 - 2 Reviews
      1. The Monsters and the Critics, and Other Essays by J.R.R. Tolkien
      2. The Book of Lost Tales, Part One by J.R.R. Tolkien
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      1. The Supply-Side Revolution by Paul Craig Roberts
      2. The Twenty-Year Century by Felix G. Rohatyn
    4. In the Mail, p. 10
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      1. Ralph Waldo Emerson: Days of Encounter by John J. McAleer
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      1. Marxist Aesthetics by Pauline Johnson
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      1. Cyril Connolly: Journal and Memoir by David Pryce-Jones
      2. A Chime of Words by Edwin Tribble and Logan Pearsall Smith
      3. All Trivia by Logan Pearsall Smith
    8. The New Problems of Paying for Art by Ronald Berman, pp. 18-23
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        Poisoned Ivy by Benjamin Hart
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        Coming to My Senses by George Caspar Homans
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        Diary of a Provincial Lady by E.M. Delafield
        The Provincial Lady in London by E.M. Delafield
        The Provincial Lady in America by E.M. Delafield
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      In Focus (3 Reviews)
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        Flat-Footed Intimacy by Brian Murray, p. 26 - 1 Review
        Intimate Memoirs by Georges Simenon
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        Country Folks Can Survive by C.P. Dragash, pp. 26-27 - 1 Review
        Outlaw: The True Story of Claude Dallas by Jeff Long
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        Narcissus Narcosis, p. 28 - 2 Reviews
        The Doctor Stories by William Carlos Williams
        William Carlos Williams and Romantic Idealism by Carl Rapp
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        Blow Your House Down by Pat Barker
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        Very Old Money by Stanley Ellin
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        Zero-Sum Equality, p. 29 - 1 Review
        The New Politics of Inequality by Thomas Byrne Edsall
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      Screen (3 Reviews)
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        Between Truth & Schlock by Eric Shapearo, p. 30 - 1 Review
        Amadeus (1984 Film) by Milos Forman
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        Regress by Stephen Macaulay, pp. 30-31 - 1 Review
        The Cotton Club (1984 Film) by Francis Ford Coppola
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        Object Lessons, p. 32 - 1 Review
        Dune (1984 Film) by David Lynch
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      Art, p. 32 - 9 Reviews
      1. Leon Kroll: A Spoken Memoir by Nancy Hale, Fredson Bowers, and Leon Kroll
      2. Abraham and David: Places They Knew by F.F. Bruce
      3. Immigrants in the Valley by Mark Wyman
      4. United States by Laurie Anderson
      5. Art in the Seventies by Edward Lucie-Smith
      6. Lincoln by George A. Tice
      7. Silver Cities by Peter B. Hales
      8. The Bauhaus by Frank Whitford
      9. Thomas Hardy's England by John Fowles and Jo Draper
    14. The World (Le Monde) Has Stopped Turning by Thomas Molnar, pp. 33-34
    15. American Proscenium, p. 35
    16. Cultural Revolutions, pp. 36-37
    17. Typefaces, p. 38
    18. A Prudent Progressive, p. 39
    19. On the Cover by Warren Chappell
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    1. Leopold Tyrmand 1920-1985, pp. 4-5
    2. ...Who Help Themselves by Thomas Fleming, pp. 6-7
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      Progressive Pilgrim by Jay Mechling, pp. 8-10 - 1 Review
      1. Pilgrims in Their Own Land by Martin E. Marty
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      Twentieth Century Fox by Samuel Francis, pp. 11-13 - 2 Reviews
      1. The Twentieth-Century World and Beyond by William R. Keylor
      2. The World in the Crucible, 1914-1919 by Bernadotte E. Schmitt and Harold C. Vedeler
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      Criminal Commonplaces by C.P. Dragash, pp. 14-15 - 1 Review
      1. American Violence and Public Policy by Lynn A. Curtis
    6. Interview by Paul J. Lavrakas, pp. 16-17
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      Men of Parts by David Hallman, pp. 18-19 - 2 Reviews
      1. A Southern Renascence Man by Walter B. Edgar
      2. Selected Essays of John Crowe Ransom by Thomas Daniel Young, John Hindle, and John Crowe Ransom, ...
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      Breast-Beating and Myth-Exploding by John S. Monagan, pp. 20-21 - 2 Reviews
      1. Arms Control by Richard F. Staar
      2. Our Own Worst Enemy by I.M. Destler, Leslie H. Gelb, and Anthony Lake
    9. East-West Talks in Vienna by Richard Staar, pp. 22-25
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        Slavery and Human Progress by David Brion Davis
      2. [+]
        Neil G. Barclay, p. 26 - 1 Review
        Essays on Christianity and Political Philosophy by George W. Carey and James V. Schall, S.J.
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        Making Do, p. 26 - 1 Review
        The Practice of Everyday Life by Michel de Certeau
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        Britain's Right Lady, p. 27 - 1 Review
        Margaret Thatcher by Russell Lewis
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        Discount Fiction by Brian Murray, p. 28 - 1 Review
        Second Marriage by Frederick Barthelme
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        Disclosing the Past by Mary D. Leakey
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        A Country Worth Saving! by Guy Vander Jagt
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        Abortion: Understanding Differences by Sidney Callahan and Daniel Callahan
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        The American Pope by John Cooney
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      1. Snow by Jennifer Levin
    15. Television by Shehbaz Safrani, p. 31
    16. Music by Doug A. Ramsey, pp. 32-33
    17. Within the Tradition , p. 34
    18. Polemics & Exchanges by John Agresto, p. 35
    19. Mr. Kostelanetz Replies , p. 35
    20. American Proscenium, pp. 36-38
    21. Cultural Revolutions, p. 39
    22. Letter From North Carolina by John Shelton Reed, pp. 40-41
    23. Typefaces, p. 42
    24. A Prudent Progressive, p. 43
    25. On the Cover by Warren Chappell
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    1. Shine, Perishing Republic by Thomas Fleming, pp. 4-5
    2. [+]
      The Mind and Heart of T.S. Eliot by Russell Kirk, pp. 6-7 - 1 Review
      1. T.S. Eliot: A Life by Peter Ackroyd
    3. [+]
      Special-Interest Democracy by Arthur Shenfield, pp. 8-9 - 2 Reviews
      1. The Tyranny of the Status Quo by Milton Friedman and Rose D. Friedman
      2. Capital Corruption by Amitai Etzioni
    4. [+]
      As a City Upon a Hill by Clyde Wilson, pp. 10-12 - 3 Reviews
      1. The Tarnished Door by John Crewdson
      2. From Moscow to Main Street by Victor Ripp
      3. Refugee Scholars in America by Lewis A. Coser
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      Stranded by the Time Machine by Joseph Schwartz, pp. 13-14 - 3 Reviews
      1. Experiment in Autobiography by H.G. Wells
      2. H.G. Wells in Love by George Philip Wells and H.G. Wells
      3. H.G. Wells: Aspects of a Life by Anthony West
    6. In the Mail, p. 15
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      Scrambling the Schools by Bryce J. Christensen, pp. 16-19 - 2 Reviews
      1. Types of Thinking by John Dewey
      2. The Christian College by William C. Ringenberg
    8. The Return of the Grand Inquisitor by Mihajlo Mihajlov, pp. 20-26
    9. Revolution on the Right: The End of Bourgeois Conservatism? by Samuel T. Francis, pp. 27-29
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      Commendables (4 Reviews)
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        Can Modern War Be Just? by James Turner Johnson
      2. [+]
        Clear-Eyed Southerner by John Shelton Reed, p. 30 - 1 Review
        Night of the Old South Ball by Edwin M. Yoder, Jr.
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        From the Wilderness to the White House, p. 31 - 1 Review
        The Rise of the Right by William A. Rusher
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        Satire In and Out of Season, p. 31 - 1 Review
        A Modest Proposal by Franky Schaeffer and Harold Fickett
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      In Focus (2 Reviews)
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        The Light From the East by Lee Congdon, p. 32 - 1 Review
        Marxism and Totality by Martin Jay
      2. [+]
        Moll and Mouse by Stephen Tanner, p. 32 - 1 Review
        Incidental Music by Francoise Sagan
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      Waste of Money (2 Reviews)
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        Not a Prayer by Steven Hayward, p. 33 - 1 Review
        All Mighty by Horst-Eberhard Richter
      2. [+]
        Snake in the Garden by Arthur E. Hippler, p. 33 - 1 Review
        The Parable of the Tribes by Andrew Bard Schmookler
    13. [+]
      Screen (2 Reviews)
      1. [+]
        Yawning in the Aisles by Stephen Macaulay, p. 34 - 1 Review
        Stranger Than Paradise (1984 Film) by Jim Jarmusch
      2. [+]
        Long Ride Home by Herbert London, p. 34 - 1 Review
        Lost in America (1985 Film) by Albert Brooks
    14. Letter From Central America by Michael Johns, p. 35
    15. Cultural Revolutions, pp. 36-37
    16. Polemics & Exchanges by Brian Murray, p. 38
    17. Professor Hawkins Replies , p. 39
    18. Typefaces, pp. 40-43
    19. On the Cover by Warren Chappell
  7. [+]
    July 1985 Issue = 24 Articles
    1. Why Another Magazine of Ideas?, p. 4
    2. Friends of the Family by Thomas J. Fleming, p. 5
    3. [+]
      Powder Puffs & Loose Peanuts by Fred Chappell, p. 6 - 2 Reviews
      1. The Cheer Leader by Jill McCorkle
      2. July 7th by Jill McCorkle
    4. Brief Encounters, p. 7
    5. [+]
      Mormons and Modernism by Bryce J. Christensen, pp. 8-9 - 4 Reviews
      1. Brigham Young: American Moses by Leonard J. Arrington
      2. Joseph Smith and the Beginnings of Mormonism by Richard L. Bushman
      3. Mormonism: The Story of a New Religious Tradition by Jan Shipps
      4. Trouble Enough: Joseph Smith and the Book of Mormon by Ernest Henry Taves
    6. [+]
      Comparable Worth? by Steven Hayward, pp. 10-11 - 2 Reviews
      1. In Her Own Right by Elisabeth Griffith
      2. Ida Tarbell: Portrait of a Muckraker by Kathleen Brady
    7. [+]
      Wrongful 'Rights' by Daniel J. O'Neil, pp. 12-13 - 2 Reviews
      1. Washington: City of Scandals by Donald Lambro
      2. Disabling America by Richard E. Morgan
    8. [+]
      Rumors of War by Paul Gottfried, pp. 14-16 - 2 Reviews
      1. 1939: In the Shadow of War~~Nineteen Thirty-Nine: In the Shadow of War by Robert Kee
      2. Archduke of Sarajevo by Gordon Brook-Shepherd
    9. Calhoun and Community by Clyde Wilson, pp. 17-20
    10. The Conservative Counterrevolution by Otto Scott, pp. 21-23
    11. [+]
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        A Very Private Eye by Barbara Pym, Hazel Holt, and Hilary Pym
      2. [+]
        Troubled New Women by David A. Vicinanzo, p. 25 - 1 Review
        The Cost of Loving by Megan Marshall
      3. [+]
        The Big Surprise by Alan J. Levine, p. 25 - 1 Review
        Losing Ground by Charles Murray
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      In Focus (5 Reviews)
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        Life by the Teaspoonful by Stephen L. Tanner, p. 26 - 1 Review
        The Weight of the World by Peter Handke
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        Last Days by Joyce Carol Oates
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      3. [+]
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        Smashing Liberal Icons by Ernest van Den Haag
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    14. Software by T.L. Brink, p. 29
    15. Art by Sandra Sider, p. 29
    16. Letter From South Africa by Ewa M. Thompson, pp. 30-31
    17. Cultural Revolutions, pp. 32-35
    18. On the Cover by Anna Mycek-Wodecki
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    1. Foreword, pp. 4-5
    2. Man and Nature by Allan C. Carlson, pp. 6-7
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      1. The Apocalyptics by Edith Efron
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      1. Staying On Top by Kevin P. Phillips
      2. The Second Industrial Divide by Michael J. Piore and Charles F. Sabel
      3. Forces of Production by David F. Noble
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      1. Window of Opportunity by Newt Gingrich, David Drake, and Marianne Gingrich, ...
      2. The Economic Illusion by Robert Kuttner
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      Nostalgia Trips by Dennis Q. McInerny, p. 15 - 2 Reviews
      1. Leaving the Land by Douglas Unger
      2. Testing the Current by William McPherson
    7. [+]
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      1. Free Market Energy by S. Fred Singer
      2. The Rising of the Moon by Gladys Mitchell
      3. Fore! The Best of Wodehouse on Golf by P.G. Wodehouse and D.R. Bensen
      4. The Meaning of More's Utopia by George M. Logan
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      1. Animal Rights and Human Morality by Bernard E. Rollin
      2. Animals and Why They Matter by Mary Midgley
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      1. "Mined with a Motion" by Marylou Motto
      2. Beyond Reagan by Alan Gartner, Colin Greer, and Frank Riessman
      3. Flannery O'Connor's Library by Arthur F. Kinney
    10. Rights of the Wild and Tame by Stephen R.L. Clark, pp. 20-23
    11. Do Animals Have Rights? by Tibor R. Machan, pp. 24-25
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      1. Kierkegaard and Literature by Ronald Schleifer and Robert Markley
      2. Pierre Mendes France by Jean Lacouture
      3. American Fictions, 1980-2000: Whose America Is It Anyway? by Frederick R. Karl
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        English-Speaking Justice by George Parkin Grant
      2. [+]
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        The Politics of Heaven and Hell by James V. Schall
      3. [+]
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        H.L. Mencken and the Debunkers by Edward A. Martin
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        Defiance by Oliver Lange
      2. [+]
        Good Beginnings by William C. Rice, p. 28 - 1 Review
        Praying Wrong by Peter Davison
      3. [+]
        Eye-Openers by Sandra Sider, p. 29 - 1 Review
        The Innocent Eye by Roger Shattuck
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        Beowulf by Marijane Osborne
      5. [+]
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        Crowds and Power by Elias Canetti
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      7. [+]
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    15. Art by Shehbaz H. Safrani, pp. 32-33
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      1. Ladyhawke (1985 Film) by Richard Donner
    17. Letter From the Lower Right by John Shelton Reed, p. 34
    18. Cultural Revolutions, pp. 35-36
    19. Polemics & Exchanges by W. Cleon Skousen, p. 37
    20. Typefaces, pp. 38-39
    21. On the Cover by Barbara De Witz
  9. [+]
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    1. Waiting for the End by Thomas Fleming, pp. 4-5
    2. [+]
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      1. Continental Drift by Russell Banks
    3. [+]
      Grand Designs by John Lukacs, pp. 8-9 - 1 Review
      1. The Liberal Mind in a Conservative Age by Richard H. Pells
    4. [+]
      Boredom, Sex, and Murder by Robert F. Geary, pp. 10-13 - 2 Reviews
      1. Lives of the Poets by E.L. Doctorow
      2. Tough Guys Don't Dance by Norman Mailer
    5. [+]
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      1. The Intellectual and the Marketplace by George J. Stigler
      2. The Economist as Preacher, and Other Essays by George J. Stigler
    6. Bianca and the Commissar by Andrei Navrozov, pp. 18-21
    7. [+]
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        The Courage of Judgment by George A. Panichas
      2. [+]
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        The Recovery of Political Theory by William C. Havard
      3. [+]
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        The Triumph of the American Spirit by Emil Arca, Gregory J. Pamel, and Ronald Reagan
      4. [+]
        Smashing "Ugly Monuments" by David Vicinanzo, p. 24 - 1 Review
        Ten Philosophical Mistakes by Mortimer J. Adler
    8. [+]
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        Ezra Pound and Dorothy Shakespear by Omar Pound, A. Walton Litz, Ezra Pound, and Dorothy Shakespear, ...
      2. [+]
        Threepenny Marxist by John Moeller, p. 25 - 1 Review
        Brecht: A Biography by Ronald Hayman
      3. [+]
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        Inside Soviet Military Intelligence by Viktor Suvorov
      4. [+]
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        The Nature of Love, Vol. I: Plato to Luther by Irving Singer
        The Nature of Love, Vol. II: Courtly and Romantic by Irving Singer
      5. [+]
        An Uncritical Mixture by Edward S. Shapiro, p. 27 - 1 Review
        Foundations of the Frankfurt School of Social Research by Judith Marcus and Zoltan Tar
      6. [+]
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        Literacy and the Survival of Humanism by Richard A. Lanham
      7. [+]
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        Cosmos and Transcendence by Wolfgang Smith
    9. [+]
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      1. The Emerald Forest (1985 Film) by John Boorman
    10. Art by Shehbaz H. Safrani, pp. 30-32
    11. Letter From Washington by Samuel T. Francis, p. 33
    12. Letter From College by T. Harvey Holt, pp. 34-35
    13. Letter From the Lower Right by John Shelton Reed, pp. 36-37
    14. Cultural Revolutions, pp. 38-39
    15. Typefaces, pp. 40-44
    16. On the Cover by Anna Wodecki
  10. [+]
    November 1985 Issue = 26 Articles
    1. La Vie en Rouge by Thomas Fleming, pp. 4-5
    2. [+]
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      1. Marxism: Philosophy and Economics by Thomas Sowell
      2. Nomenklatura: The Soviet Ruling Class by Michael Voslensky
    3. [+]
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      1. Arrow in the Blue by Arthur Koestler
      2. The Invisible Writing by Arthur Koestler
      3. Stranger on the Square by Arthur Koestler and Cynthia Koestler
    4. ï¿½---, p. 12
    5. [+]
      A Survivor...So Far by Michael Warder, pp. 13-17 - 1 Review
      1. Breaking With Moscow by Arkady N. Shevchenko
    6. [+]
      Marxism & Motorcycle Maintenance by Thomas L. Ashton, p. 18 - 1 Review
      1. C. Wright Mills: An American Utopian by Irving Louis Horowitz
    7. [+]
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      1. New Testament Interpretation Through Rhetorical Criticism by George A. Kennedy
      2. Christianizing the Roman Empire by Ramsay MacMullen
    8. Solzhenitsyn and Democracy by Edward E. Ericson Jr., pp. 22-27
    9. Russia's Bloody Gold by Wladyslaw John Cieslewicz, pp. 28-33
    10. [+]
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      1. [+]
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        Frost: A Literary Life Reconsidered by William H. Pritchard
      2. [+]
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        Stevie Smith: A Selection by Hermione Lee and Stevie Smith
      3. [+]
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        Execution by Hunger by Miron Dolot
    11. [+]
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      1. [+]
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        Dezinformatsia by Richard H. Shultz, Jr. and Roy S. Godson
      2. [+]
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        Metro by Alexander Kaletski
      3. [+]
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        Two Winters and Three Summers by Fedor Abramov
      4. [+]
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      2. Lincoln Dictionary by Ralph B. Winn
      3. Jack Tars and Commodores by William M. Fowler, Jr.
      4. The Confederate Governors by W. Buck Yearns
      5. No Chariot Let Down by Michael P. Johnson and James L. Roark
    13. [+]
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      1. The Grain of the Voice by Roland Barthes
      2. The Responsibility of Forms by Roland Barthes
    14. [+]
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      1. Women Clergy by Edward C. Lehman, Jr.
      2. Red, White, and Blue Paradise by Herbert Knapp and Mary Knapp
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      1. In Search of Love and Beauty by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
    16. Letter From Washington by William L. Armstrong, p. 40
    17. Letter From the Lower Right by John Shelton Reed, p. 41
    18. Cultural Revolutions, pp. 42-43
    19. Typefaces, p. 44
    20. Art by Shehbaz H. Safrani, pp. 45-48
    21. On the Cover by Anna Mycek-Wodecki
  11. [+]
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    1. All Gone in Search of America by Thomas Fleming, pp. 4-5
    2. [+]
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      1. Life: The Second Decade 1946-1955 by Doris C. O'Neil
    3. [+]
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      1. Inventing the Dream by Kevin Starr
    4. [+]
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      1. The Fateful Triangle by Noam Chomsky
      2. The New Covenant by Sam B. Girgus
      3. Israel in the Mind of America by Peter Grose
    5. [+]
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      2. The Emperor's New Clothes by William K. Kilpatrick
      3. Privatizing Federal Spending by Stuart M. Butler
      4. The Terrors of Justice by Maurice H. Stans
      5. Keep Off the Grass by Gabriel G. Nahas
    6. [+]
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      1. The Prick of Noon by Peter De Vries
    7. [+]
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      1. Excellence and Equity by Stephen Miller
      2. A Report to the Congress of the United States on the State of the Humanities and the Reauthorization of the National Endowment for the Humanities
    8. Still in Saigon---in My Mind by E. Christian Kopff, pp. 20-24
    9. Henry James at the Sacred Fount by Thomas P. McDonnell, pp. 25-27
    10. [+]
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      1. [+]
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        The Brezhnev Politburo and the Decline of Detente by Harry Gelman
      2. [+]
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        On the Evolution of Human Behavior by Peter C. Reynolds
    11. [+]
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      1. [+]
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        The Slaying of the Dragon by Franz Rottensteiner
      2. [+]
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        Bernard M. Baruch by James L. Grant
        J.P. Morgan by Stanley Jackson
      3. [+]
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        From Berkeley to East Berlin and Back by Dale Vree
      4. [+]
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        The New Achievers by Perry Pascarella
      5. [+]
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      6. [+]
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    13. Cultural Revolutions, pp. 35-36
    14. Correspondence by John Shelton Reed, p. 37
    15. Typefaces, pp. 38-40
    16. Theater by Caroline Morgan, p. 41
    17. [+]
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      1. [+]
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        Alamo Bay (1985 Film) by Louis Malle
    18. Art by Shehbaz H. Safrani, pp. 44-48
    19. On the Cover by Anna Mycek-Wodecki
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  Issues of 1994 = 12 Issues, 292 Articles
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  Issues of 1999 = 12 Issues, 292 Articles
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  Issues of 2000 = 12 Issues, 320 Articles
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  Issues of 2001 = 12 Issues, 356 Articles
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  Issues of 2002 = 12 Issues, 331 Articles
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  Issues of 2003 = 11 Issues, 316 Articles
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  Issues of 2004 = 12 Issues, 335 Articles
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  Issues of 2005 = 12 Issues, 320 Articles
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  Issues of 2006 = 12 Issues, 314 Articles
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