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by Bill Leonard, Judy Crichton, Robert J. Spitzer, Arnold Beichman, Joshua Muravchik, John E. Haynes, Benno Weiser Varon, Jordan C. Band, Walter A. Sheldon, Leonard A. Gordon, Alberto Coffa, Mark Falcoff, Edwin Newman, and Joseph Epstein

Commentary, December 1981, pp. 4-24

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    2. "Joining the Jackals" by Daniel P. Moynihan, pp. 23-31
    3. Pity the Poor Russians? by Walter Laqueur, pp. 32-41
    4. Why Madame Bovary Couldn't Make Love in the Concrete by Joseph Epstein, pp. 42-47
    5. Deformations of the Holocaust by Robert Alter, pp. 48-54
    6. Toward an Immigration Policy by Samuel Rabinove, pp. 55-57
    7. John Lennon's Mourners by Dorothy Rabinowitz, pp. 58-60
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      1. Walt Whitman: A Life by Justin Kaplan
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      1. Lectures on Literature by Vladimir Nabokov and Fredson Bowers
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    1. Letters by Frederick Butzen, Iris Mitgang, and Edith U. Fierst, ..., pp. 2-24
    2. The Election & the Evangelicals by Seymour Martin Lipset and Earl Raab, pp. 25-31
    3. Carter's Last Capitulation by Joseph W. Bishop, Jr., pp. 32-35
    4. What Happened to the Schools by Joseph Adelson, pp. 36-41
    5. Anti-Semitism and American History by Jonathan D. Sarna, pp. 42-47
    6. Healing by Annette Henkin Landau, pp. 48-52
    7. Portrait of a Hero by Ruth R. Wisse, pp. 53-55
    8. American Music by Samuel Lipman, pp. 56-61
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      1. The Prestige Press and the Christmas Bombing, 1972 by Martin F. Herz and Leslie Rider
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      One People? by David Vital, pp. 64-68 - 1 Review
      1. The Jew in the Modern World by Paul Mendes-Flohr and Jehuda Reinharz
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      1. The Letters of Evelyn Waugh by Mark Amory and Evelyn Waugh
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      The Woes of Academe by Chester E. Finn, Jr., pp. 74-76 - 2 Reviews
      1. Group Memory by Alston Chase
      2. Education and the Democratic Ideal by Steven M. Cahn
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      Professional Liberal by Herman Belz, pp. 77-82 - 1 Review
      1. Independent Journey by James F. Simon
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    April 1981 Issue = 13 Articles
    1. Letters by Robert Pastor, Dave Van Buren, and John E. Chappell, Jr., ..., pp. 4-28
    2. The Future Danger by Norman Podhoretz, pp. 29-47
    3. Ideology & Supply-Side Economics by Irving Kristol, pp. 48-54
    4. France vs. Israel by Sally Baumann Reynolds, pp. 55-59
    5. Having Babies Again by Naomi Munson, pp. 60-62
    6. "...Who Made me a Woman" by George Jochnowitz, pp. 63-64
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      1. The Covenant by James A. Michener
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      1. The Humanities in American Life
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      1. The Jew by Arthur A. Cohen and Martin Buber
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      Profiles in Courage by Maurice Friedberg, pp. 82-83 - 1 Review
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      Race & Society by Jack N. Rakove, pp. 84-90 - 1 Review
      1. White Supremacy by George M. Fredrickson
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    May 1981 Issue = 13 Articles
    1. Letters by Charles William Maynes, Robert Kaplan, and Gerald L. Houseman, ..., pp. 4-24
    2. How to Make Peace with the Palestinians by Menahem Milson, pp. 25-35
    3. The Imperial Media by Joseph Kraft, pp. 36-47
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    5. The Choice by Jeanette Erlbuam Goldsmith, pp. 54-63
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      2. Fort Apache, the Bronx (1981 Film) by Daniel Petrie
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      1. Growing Up Free by Letty Cottin Pogrebin
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      1. Zionism in Transition by Moshe Davis
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    2. Mexico & Other Dominoes by Carlos Rangel, pp. 27-33
    3. The Most Beautiful Woman in Vilna by Ruth R. Wisse, pp. 34-38
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      4. You Only Live Twice (1967 Film) by Lewis Gilbert
      5. On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969 Film) by Peter R. Hunt
      6. Live and Let Die (1973 Film) by Guy Hamilton
      7. The Man With The Golden Gun (1974 Film) by Guy Hamilton
      8. The Spy Who Loved Me (1977 Film) by Lewis Gilbert
      9. Moonraker (1979 Film) by Lewis Gilbert
      10. For Your Eyes Only (1981 Film) by John Glen
      11. Eyewitness (1981 Film) by Peter Yates
      12. Nighthawks (1981 Film) by Bruce Malmuth
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      The Spirit of Enterprise by Adam Meyerson, pp. 77-82 - 1 Review
      1. Wealth and Poverty by George Gilder
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    1. Letters by Sidney Hook, Richard Holbrooke, and Elias M. Schwarzbart, ..., pp. 4-18
    2. Hollanditis by Walter Laqueur, pp. 19-26
    3. Are Jews Becoming Republican? by Milton Himmelfarb, pp. 27-31
    4. Central America and Its Enemies by Constantine Menges, pp. 32-38
    5. The Politics of Muslim Anti-Semitism by Daniel Pipes, pp. 39-45
    6. The Case of Janet Cooke by Naomi Munson, pp. 46-50
    7. The Noblest Distraction by Joseph Epstein, pp. 51-55
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      2. World Without End by Francine du Plessix Gray
      3. The White Hotel by D.M. Thomas
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      1. Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981 Film) by Steven Spielberg
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      1. National Defense by James Fallows
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      1. The Ethnic Myth by Stephen Steinberg
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      1. American Patriots and the Rituals of Revolution by Peter Shaw
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      1. The Enigma of Felix Frankfurter by H.N. Hirsch
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      Nationalism vs. Ideology by Maurice Friedberg, pp. 78-82 - 2 Reviews
      1. Russia's Failed Revolutions by Adam B. Ulam
      2. The Rise of the Gulag by Alain Besancon
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    1. Letters by Leopoldo Lopez, Willard L. Beaulac, and Samuel Rabinove, ..., pp. 4-26
    2. The Middle East by Robert W. Tucker, pp. 27-36
    3. Human Rights and American Power by Samuel P. Huntington, pp. 37-43
    4. CBS vs. Defense by Joshua Muravchik and John E. Haynes, pp. 44-55
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      1. The Ghost Writer by Philip Roth
      2. Zuckerman Unbound by Philip Roth
    6. The Quintessential Liberal by Robert Nisbet, pp. 61-63
    7. From the Memoirs of an Administrator by John Hollander, p. 64
    8. John Hinckley by Peter Shaw, pp. 65-66
    9. The Mogul Who Loved Art by David Aberbach, pp. 67-71
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      Futurist Manifesto by Roger Starr, pp. 72-75 - 1 Review
      1. The World Challenge by Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber
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      1. Revolution in Judaea by Hyam Maccoby
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      Radical's Journey by James Nuechterlein, pp. 80-81 - 1 Review
      1. A Life in Two Centuries by Bertram D. Wolfe
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      Foundlings and Bastards by Renee Winegarten, pp. 82-84 - 1 Review
      1. Origins of the Novel by Marthe Robert
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      Thought Control by Arch Puddington, pp. 85-90 - 1 Review
      1. The Bureaucracy of Truth by Paul Lendvai
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    1. Letters by Robert Moses Shapiro, Gregory J. Lanning, and George Watson, ..., pp. 4-28
    2. Speaking to the Third World by Peter L. Berger, pp. 29-36
    3. On the Ninth of Ab by Frank Talmage, pp. 37-43
    4. The Surrealists in New York by Lionel Abel, pp. 44-54
    5. Bribing Delinquents to be Good by Susan Seidner Adler, pp. 55-61
    6. Beyond Nuremberg by Allan Gerson, pp. 62-66
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      1. M*A*S*H (1970 Film) by Robert Altman
      2. Stripes (1981 Film) by Ivan Reitman
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      Sequels by Pearl K. Bell, pp. 72-75 - 2 Reviews
      1. Rabbit Is Rich by John Updike
      2. Reinhart's Women by Thomas Berger
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      American Mosaic by William Petersen, pp. 76-77 - 1 Review
      1. Ethnic America by Thomas Sowell
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      Surveying the 70's by Robert William Kagan, pp. 78-80 - 1 Review
      1. New Rules by Daniel Yankelovich
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      Early American by David Singer, pp. 81-83 - 1 Review
      1. Jacksonian Jew by Jonathan D. Sarna
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      The "Art" of Jazz by Robert Richman, pp. 84-85 - 1 Review
      1. Riding on a Blue Note by Gary Giddins
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      Remaining Human by Leonard Schapiro, pp. 86-90 - 1 Review
      1. Within the Whirlwind by Eugenia Ginzburg
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    1. Letters by Bill Leonard, Judy Crichton, and Robert J. Spitzer, ..., pp. 4-24
    2. Appeasement & the AWACs by Robert W. Tucker, pp. 25-30
    3. Can El Salvador Be Saved? by Max Singer, pp. 31-36
    4. A New Direction for American Jews by Murray Friedman, pp. 37-44
    5. Patenting Life by Leon R. Kass, pp. 45-57
    6. My Friend Walter Benjamin by Gershom Scholem, pp. 58-69
    7. Children of Chopin by Samuel Lipman, pp. 70-74
    8. Why "Nicholas Nickleby"? by Myron Magnet, pp. 75-78
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      Our Lady of Corruption by Richard Grenier, pp. 79-83 - 1 Review
      1. True Confessions (1981 Film) by Ulu Grosbard
    10. [+]
      Fellow-Travelers' Tales by Leonard Schapiro, pp. 84-85 - 1 Review
      1. Political Pilgrims by Paul Hollander
    11. [+]
      A Life in Politics by Nathan Glazer, pp. 86-88 - 1 Review
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      Fighting Castro by Mark Falcoff, pp. 89-90 - 1 Review
      1. Tocayo by Antonio Navarro
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      Confronting the Holocaust by Martin Gilbert, pp. 91-93 - 1 Review
      1. The Holocaust and the Historians by Lucy S. Dawidowicz
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      The Forgotten War by Arch Puddington, pp. 94-98 - 1 Review
      1. The Struggle for Afghanistan by Nancy Peabody Newell and Richard S. Newell
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