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How Critical is the "Crisis" of Liberalism?

by Kenneth Minogue

Encounter, June 1984, pp. 30-34

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    1. Our Family Doctors (story) by Patricia Daly, pp. 3-7
    2. Poem by Felicity Napier, p. 8
    3. The Decline & Fall of Unesco by Gordon Crovitz, pp. 9-18
    4. Was Hitler a Marxist? by George Watson, pp. 19-24
    5. Poem by Ian Pople, p. 25
    6. Column by "M.", pp. 26-27
    7. Poem by Richard Kell, pp. 28-30
    8. Poem by Michael Hulse, pp. 31-33
    9. Paris Notebook by Jean-Francois Revel, pp. 34-36
    10. Exaltation of the Commonplace by Edward Pearce, pp. 37-39
    11. Marcel & Celeste by Derwent May, pp. 40-41
    12. Do Ideas Matter? by John Wood, pp. 42-43
    13. Poem by John Richmond, p. 44
    14. [+]
      An Unofficial Life by Philip Larkin, pp. 45-46 - 1 Review
      1. T.S. Eliot: A Life by Peter Ackroyd
    15. [+]
      Ezra Pound & Treason by Malcolm Bradbury, pp. 47-52 - 1 Review
      1. The Roots of Treason by E. Fuller Torrey
    16. [+]
      Voltaire to Medawar by John Weightman, pp. 53-55 - 1 Review
      1. Aristotle to Zoos by P.B. Medawar and J.S. Medawar
    17. [+]
      From Wave to Cave by John Mole, pp. 56-63 - 10 Reviews
      1. A Wave by John Ashbery
      2. The Kingfisher by Amy Clampitt
      3. Venus and the Rain by Medbh McGuckian
      4. Fire in the Garden by Herbert Lomas
      5. Moving in by Connie Bensley
      6. Familiars by Philip Gross
      7. The Ice Factory by Philip Gross
      8. Aeroplanes in Childhood by Patrick Hare
      9. Leviathan and Other Poems by B.C. Leale
      10. A Bad Day for the Sung Dynasty by Frank Kuppner
    18. Poem by Alan Gurnow, p. 64
    19. Zinoviev's Strange Conversion by Sidney Hook, p. 65
    20. Can One "Enjoy" the Gulag? by Charles Janson, p. 66
    21. A Dialectical Paradox by Konstanty Jelenski, p. 67
    22. A "Great-Russian" Delusion by William E. Griffith, p. 68
    23. Strange Compensations by Paul Hollander, pp. 68-69
    24. Yawning Depths by Paul Lendvai, p. 70
    25. "To Plagiarise, Purloin, or Borrow" by Laurence Urdang and Robert Burchfield, pp. 71-73
    26. Suspicion by Omission by Melvin J. Lasky, pp. 74-75
    27. Authors, p. 76
    28. Letters, pp. 77-78
    29. Life & Letters, pp. 79-82
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  Issues of 1985 = 10 Issues, 254 Articles
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  Issues of 1986 = 10 Issues, 245 Articles
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  Issues of 1987 = 10 Issues, 268 Articles
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  Issues of 1988 = 10 Issues, 248 Articles
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  Issues of 1989 = 10 Issues, 277 Articles
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Issues of the 1990s = 1 Year, 7 Issues, 215 Articles
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  Issues of 1990 = 7 Issues, 215 Articles