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by Henry Sherman #2, Jackson Toby, Frederic Wile, Allen Greenberg, Joseph Kraft, Harold Ticktin, Jordan C. Band, Martha S. Cherkis, Midge Decter, Jacques Levy, Georges Weill, David A. Harris, Alfred G. Cuzan, Erich Rosenthal, Francesco Cordasco, and Nathan Glazer

Commentary, December 1985, pp. 2-18

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    1. Letters by Tom J. Farer, David Isenberg, Max Singer, and Mark Falcoff, ..., pp. 2-14
    2. Why the Democrats Lost by Joshua Muravchik, pp. 15-26
    3. Conservatism After Reagan by Gregory A. Fossedal, pp. 27-31
    4. Delusions of Soviet Weakness by Edward N. Luttwak, pp. 32-38
    5. Vistas of Annihilation by Robert Alter, pp. 39-44
    6. What Good Is Freedom of Speech? by Irving Younger, pp. 45-51
    7. Reflections on a Memoir by Jacob Sloan, pp. 52-60
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      2. The Little Drummer Girl (1984 Film) by George Roy Hill
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      1. Losing Ground by Charles Murray
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      1. Ilya Ehrenburg by Anatol Goldberg
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      1. Not in Our Genes by Richard Lewontin, Steven Rose, and Leon J. Kamin, ...
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      The New Mercantilism by Melville J. Ulmer, pp. 73-74 - 1 Review
      1. Staying On Top by Kevin P. Phillips
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      1. In Love and War by Jim Stockdale and Sybil Stockdale
    14. James Nuechterlein, pp. 78-82
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    February 1985 Issue = 13 Articles
    1. Letters by Joseph Forbes, Albert L. Weeks, and Doyne Dawson, ..., pp. 2-16
    2. The Terrible Question of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn by Norman Podhoretz, pp. 17-24
    3. Politics, the Jews & the '84 Election by Lucy S. Dawidowicz, pp. 25-30
    4. Can the Bishops Help the Poor? by Peter L. Berger, pp. 31-35
    5. From Clapham to Bloomsbury by Gertrude Himmelfarb, pp. 36-45
    6. A Few Home Truths About Latin America by Luis Burstin, pp. 46-53
    7. Kosher Ecology by Newtol Press, pp. 54-58
    8. Heller's Last Gag by Roger Kaplan, pp. 59-61
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      The Arms Controllers by David Blair, pp. 62-63 - 1 Review
      1. Deadly Gambits by Strobe Talbott
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      The Doomed by Maurice Friedberg, pp. 64-65 - 1 Review
      1. The Chronicle of the Lodz Ghetto, 1941-1944 by Lucjan Dobroszycki
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      Computers and Us by Jeffrey Marsh, pp. 66-68 - 2 Reviews
      1. Turing's Man by J. David Bolter
      2. The Second Self by Sherry Turkle
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      Rogues' Gallery by Joseph W. Bishop, Jr., p. 69 - 1 Review
      1. The Liberal Crack-Up by R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr.
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      Social Change by Larry D. Nachman, pp. 70-74 - 1 Review
      1. The Minimal Self by Christopher Lasch
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    March 1985 Issue = 15 Articles
    1. "Star Wars" & the Scientists by Edward Teller, James A. Abrahamson, and Lowell Wood, ..., pp. 4-16
    2. Response by Robert Jastrow, pp. 17-21
    3. Additional Letters by Claire L. Baron, Adrian R. Valentino, and Milton Birnbaum, ..., pp. 22-24
    4. Famine, Development & Foreign Aid by Nick Eberstadt, pp. 25-31
    5. The Hidden Holocaust by Theodore S. Hamerow, pp. 32-42
    6. How to Support the Democratic Revolution by Michael Ledeen, pp. 43-46
    7. F. Scott Fitzgerald at the End by Jeffrey Hart, pp. 47-53
    8. Does Neoliberalism Have a Future? by Leslie Lenkowsky, pp. 54-55
    9. Out of the Ghetto by Samuel Lipman, pp. 56-62
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      Eddie Murphy, American by Richard Grenier, pp. 63-67 - 1 Review
      1. Beverly Hills Cop (1984 Film) by Martin Brest
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      1. The Good News Is the Bad News Is Wrong by Ben J. Wattenberg
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      Apt Beginnings by Robert Alter, pp. 69-70 - 1 Review
      1. Back to the Sources by Barry W. Holtz
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      1. Son of the Morning Star by Evan S. Connell
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      1. America's Saints by Robert Gottlieb and Peter Wiley
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      The Lesson of Vietnam? by Alvin H. Bernstein, pp. 77-82 - 1 Review
      1. The 25-Year War by Bruce Palmer, Jr.
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    April 1985 Issue = 13 Articles
    1. Letters by Raymond Garmel, Leonard S. Sandweiss, and Israel Kugler, ..., pp. 2-14
    2. Israel's Economic Crisis by Stuart E. Eizenstat, pp. 15-21
    3. What the U.S. Can Do by Steven L. Spiegel, pp. 22-28
    4. Terrorizing Children by Joseph Adelson and Chester E. Finn, Jr., pp. 29-36
    5. The "Real" Marx by Gertrude Himmelfarb, pp. 37-43
    6. Paul Celan by John Felstiner, pp. 44-55
    7. When the Pipes Froze by Linda Collins, pp. 56-62
    8. Four Cheers for Capitalism by Tod Lindberg, pp. 63-69
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      1. The Abandonment of the Jews by David S. Wyman
      2. The Jews Were Expendable by Monty Noam Penkower
      3. A Refuge from Darkness by Naomi Shepherd
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      1. Helmut Schmidt by Jonathan Carr
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    1. Letters by Michael Scammell, Stephen Miller, and Henry Regnery, ..., pp. 4-17
    2. The Perversion of Foreign Aide by Nick Eberstadt, pp. 18-33
    3. Orthodox Jews---From Passivity to Activism by Jacob Katz, pp. 34-39
    4. Vietnam & the 60's Generation by Scott McConnell, pp. 40-46
    5. Crisis in the Pacific by Owen Harries, pp. 47-54
    6. Is Caravaggio Our Contemporary? by James Gardner, pp. 55-61
    7. The Secret of Mary Gordon's Success by Carol Iannone, pp. 62-67
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      1. The Blood of Abraham by Jimmy Carter
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    2. Nicaraguan Harvest by Mark Falcoff, pp. 21-28
    3. The Politics of Yiddish by Ruth R. Wisse, pp. 29-35
    4. Out of the Drawer & Into the West by Fernanda Eberstadt, pp. 36-44
    5. Operation Moses by Edward Alexander, pp. 45-49
    6. Allen Ginsberg Then and Now by Robert Richman, pp. 50-55
    7. Gifted and Talented by Tova Reich, pp. 56-61
    8. Yesterday's America of Tomorrow by Jeffrey Hart, pp. 62-65
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    1. Letters by M. Peter McPherson, Nick Eberstadt, and Eleanor Duckworth, ..., pp. 2-20
    2. Bitburg by Midge Decter, pp. 21-27
    3. Fighting Back by Michael Ledeen, pp. 28-31
    4. On Jewish Forebodings by Nathan Glazer, pp. 32-36
    5. The Newest Political Pilgrims by Paul Hollander, pp. 37-41
    6. Scripture and Culture by Robert Alter, pp. 42-48
    7. Graffiti & Other Art Forms by James Gardner, pp. 49-53
    8. A Dissent on Grace Paley by Carol Iannone, pp. 54-59
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      1. Toward a More Natural Science by Leon R. Kass, M.D.
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      1. Canarsie by Jonathan Rieder
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      1. A Passion for Excellence by Thomas Peters and Nancy Austin
      2. Innovation and Entrepreneurship by Peter F. Drucker
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      1. Living with Koestler by Mamaine Koestler and Celia Goodman
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      1. Germany Today by Walter Laqueur
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    1. Letters by Gordon Tullock, Frederick Allen Asher, and Mark Falcoff, ..., pp. 2-28
    2. Is There Now, or Has There Ever Been, Such a Thing as Totalitarianism? by Walter Laqueur, pp. 29-35
    3. The Cult of Hiroshima by Andre Ryerson, pp. 36-40
    4. Reading Primo Levi by Fernanda Eberstadt, pp. 41-47
    5. What Nairobi Wrought by Michael Levin, pp. 48-52
    6. Who Killed the CIA? by Edward Jay Epstein, pp. 53-57
    7. Israel's Standing in American Public Opinion by Mitchell Bard, pp. 58-59
    8. "Our Genius" by Carol Iannone, pp. 60-65
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      The Policy-makers by Daniel Pipes, pp. 66-70 - 1 Review
      1. The Other Arab-Israeli Conflict by Steven L. Spiegel
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      1. The True Confessions of an Albino Terrorist by Breyten Breytenbach
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      1. The Schools We Deserve by Diane Ravitch
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      1. In Defense of Animals by Peter Singer
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      Beyond the Law by Mary Tedeschi, pp. 77-82 - 1 Review
      1. A Matter of Principle by Ronald Dworkin
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    1. Letters by James E. Salyers, Evelyn A. Mauss, and Paul Hollander, ..., pp. 2-24
    2. How has the United States Met Its Major Challenges Since 1945?, p. 25
    3. --- by Lionel Abel, pp. 26-27
    4. --- by William Barrett, p. 28
    5. --- by Peter L. Berger, pp. 29-30
    6. --- by Walter Berns, pp. 31-33
    7. --- by Midge Decter, pp. 34-35
    8. --- by Joseph Epstein, pp. 36-38
    9. --- by Suzanne Garment, pp. 39-40
    10. --- by Nathan Glazer, pp. 41-43
    11. --- by Owen Harries, pp. 44-46
    12. --- by Sidney Hook, pp. 47-49
    13. --- by Jeane J. Kirkpatrick, pp. 50-51
    14. --- by Joseph Kraft, pp. 52-55
    15. --- by Irving Kristol, pp. 56-59
    16. --- by Walter Laqueur, pp. 60-61
    17. --- by Michael Ledeen, pp. 62-64
    18. --- by Daniel Patrick Moynihan, pp. 65-69
    19. --- by Richard John Neuhaus, pp. 70-72
    20. --- by Robert Nisbet, pp. 73-76
    21. --- by Michael Novak, pp. 77-78
    22. --- by William Phillips, pp. 79-82
    23. --- by Richard Pipes, p. 83
    24. --- by Eugene V. Rostow, pp. 84-88
    25. --- by Bayard Rustin, pp. 89-91
    26. --- by Edward Shils, pp. 92-94
    27. --- by John R. Silber, pp. 95-96
    28. --- by Robert W. Tucker, pp. 97-99
    29. --- by Ernest van den Haag, pp. 100-101
    30. --- by James Q. Wilson, pp. 102-104
    31. --- by Albert Wohlstetter, pp. 105-107
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      1. A Certain People by Charles E. Silberman
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      The Three W's by Robert Alter, pp. 114-117 - 1 Review
      1. The Oxford Book of Children's Verse in America by Donald Hall
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      1. Sparks Fly! by Frank Chapple
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      Post-Valedictory by James Gardner, pp. 122-124 - 1 Review
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      1. Chaim Weizmann: The Making of a Zionist Leader by Jehuda Reinharz
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    1. Letters by Henry Sherman #2, Jackson Toby, and Frederic Wile, ..., pp. 2-18
    2. The New Khmer Rouge by Ross H. Munro, pp. 19-38
    3. Another Look at the Jewish Vote by Milton Himmelfarb, pp. 39-44
    4. Scuttling an Empire by Elie Kedourie, pp. 45-50
    5. Religion and the Conservatives by Werner J. Dannhauser, pp. 51-55
    6. "Yours Sincerely, Sinclair Levy" by Barry Gross, pp. 56-58
    7. Confessions of an Ex-Translator by Jacob Sloan, pp. 59-61
    8. Gaddis Recognized by Carol Iannone, pp. 62-65
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      1. Diaspora by Howard M. Sachar
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      The Newcomers by Michael Novak, pp. 71-72 - 1 Review
      1. Clamor at the Gates by Nathan Glazer
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      On Foreign Policy by Larry D. Nachman, pp. 73-75 - 1 Review
      1. Observations by Henry Kissinger
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      Tragic Decline by Terry Teachout, pp. 76-82 - 1 Review
      1. The Price of the Ticket by James Baldwin
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