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December 1979 Issue - 18 Articles- Editor's Notes
R.P.
, pp. 6-9 New Advisor
- Letters, pp. 10-14
- Brickbats
Thomas Winslow Hazlett and Robert Poole, Jr
, pp. 15-21 From the stylish New West
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Current Issues (5 Reviews) Antony Flew
, pp. 22-24 Britain Down the Drain?
- The Future That Doesn't Work by R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr.
- Britain---A Future That Works by Bernard D. Nossiter
- Nineteen Eighty-Five by Anthony Burgess
- The Coming Confrontation by Ralph Harris and Anthony Seldon
- Right Turn by Patrick Cormack
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Housing Protectionism (Review) John McClaughry
, pp. 25-26 How a Privileged Few are Preventing Average Americans from Becoming Homeowners
- The Environmental Protection Hustle by Bernard J. Frieden
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Challenging the Public School Monopoly (2 Reviews) E.G. West
, pp. 27-30 Are Vouchers the Answer to Restoring Choice to American Education?
- Parents, Teachers and Children by James S. Coleman
- Education by Choice by John E. Coons and Stephen D. Sugarman
Political Philosophy
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Nozick Under Fire (Review) J. Charles King
, pp. 31-32 Political Philosophy
- Anarchy, State and Utopia by Robert Nozick
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The Political Order of a Free People (Review) Douglas J. Den Uyl
, pp. 33-35 F.A. Hayek's Prescriptions Fall Short of Ensuring Political Freedom
- Law, Legislation and Liberty, Vol. I by Friedrich A. Hayek
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Resurrecting Rights (Review) Jeffrey Paul
, pp. 36-37 Alan Gewirth Attempts to give Moral and Political Principles Objective Grounding
- Reason and Morality by Alan Gewirth
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Science Fiction (4 Reviews) John J. Pierce
, pp. 38-40 Science Fiction Comes of Age
- The Persistence of Vision by John Varley
- The Faded Sun Trilogy by C.J. Cherryh
- Up the Walls of the World by James Tiptree, Jr.
- Dreamsnake by Vonda N. McIntyre
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Ursula Leguin: Novelist (Review) Jeff Riggenbach
, p. 41 The Language of the Night, by Ursula K. Le Guin and Susan Wood
- The Language of the Night by Ursula K. Le Guin and Susan Wood
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An All-Too-Possible Future (Review) F. Paul Wilson
, pp. 42-44 Schulman's Characters Face Social Collapse and find a way out
- Alongside Night by J. Neil Schulman
Autobiography
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American Dissidents (2 Reviews) Justus D. Doenecke
, pp. 45-49 Felix Morley and Henry Regnery reflect on their lives in American Publishing
- For the Record by Felix Morley
- Memoirs of a Dissident Publisher by Henry Regnery
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Social Philosophy (Review) Ellen Frankel Paul
, pp. 50-51 Herbert Spencer: Radical Antistatist
- The Principle of Ethics by Herbert Spencer
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Undercutting Egalitarianism (2 Reviews) Wallace I. Matson
, pp. 52-57 Two New Books Expose Dogmas that Rationalize the Attempt to Make Everyone Equal
- A Rational Animal, and Other Philosophical Essays on the Nature of Man by Antony Flew
- Beast and Man by Mary Midgley
- Viewpoint
Murray N. Rothbard
, p. 58 Is Liberty Enough?
- Spotlight
John R. Lott
, p. 59 Pushing Decriminalization
Arts & Letters
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Movies (5 Reviews) John Hospers
, pp. 60-69 Escape from Alcatraz; The Amityville Horror; North Dallas Forty; Picnic at Hanging Rock...
- Escape From Alcatraz (1979 Film) by Don Siegel
- The Amityville Horror (1979 Film) by Stuart Rosenberg
- North Dallas Forty (1979 Film) by Ted Kotcheff
- Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975 Film) by Peter Weir
- Soldier of Orange (1977 Film) by Paul Verhoeven