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by William F. (William Frank) Buckley, Michael Novak, Garry Wills, Robert E. Coles, Eugene J. McCarthy, J.M. (James Munro) Cameron,

When Did You Stop Wanting to Be President?

An unscientific poll of interested parties Ronald Reagan I never started. Now, more than ever, I believe the job must “seek the man.” Aspiration to the Presidency is the stuff of…

Community mental health

by Mark Vonnegut,

Good intentions run amok

Fly now, live later

by Terry King,

Why smaller refrigerators can preserve the human race

by Appletree Rodden,

Costs of amorality

by Robert J. Lieber, Donald S. Rothchild,

A "political science lecture"

They’re keeping it hushed up

by Oliver Ormerod Jensen,

Guilty, not guilty, or sufferedenuff

by Margaret Bennett,

Death, with thanks

by Mark Huntington Wiseman,

Divorce, with love

by Don Gold,

The Wadhwa proposal

by Kirkpatrick Sale, Edward Sorel,

Rulers v. reality

by Art Buchwald, Vermont Royster, Arthur Meier Schlesinger, Peregrine Worsthorne, Victor Gold, Karl Hess, Eugene J. McCarthy, Michael Novak, Theodore C. Sorensen,

An Obsolescent Life

by Molly Gleiser,

Book reviewers

by Mary Ann Riley,

Lovers, not lions

Natural childbirth (as if it happened any other way)

by Susan Schwartz McDonald,

Liberation–in whose terms?

by Dexter Duggan,

Beastly inventions

by Robert Powell,

Why I want to bite R.D. Laing

by Mark Vonnegut,

Quote commitment unqoute

by Veronica Geng,

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Once More Unto the Breach

On natural aristocracy

On folly

On magic

On the character of politicians

On war

On policy

Zero historian growth

A satire for the unemployed–and for Ayn Rand

In defense of old hypocrisy

Hisstory in the seventies

Christians, why do you still believe in God, in the promise of the Cross?