| The Continuing Crisis | 2 |
| Editorial/The Need for Public Nuisance Law | 4 |
| Tyrrell, R. Emmett Jr. | |
| Capitol Ideas/Food and Art/H G Wells' New Class/Senate Spenders | 5 |
| Bethell, Tom | |
| Chambers' Music and Alger Hiss | 7 |
| Kenner, Hugh | |
| Ecological Homicide | 11 |
| Oh, Violence! Please, Violence! | 12 |
| Koenig, Rhoda | |
| Mr. Deng's Arms | 14 |
| Strausz-Hupé, Robert | |
| Apartheid at Harvard | 16 |
| Beichman, Arnold | |
| A Dialogue | 18 |
| Haag, Ernest van den | |
| Washington's False Faces | 22 |
| Nollson, John | |
| The 1980 Watch-A Campaign Promise | 23 |
| Khachigian, Kenneth L. | |
| The Public Policy/Conflict of Interest: A Necessary Good | 24 |
| Baldwin, Fred D. | |
| The Talkies/Manhattan | 28 |
| Yagoda, Ben | |
| To Build a Castle-My Life as a Dissenter | 30 |
| Bukovsky, Vladimir | |
| A Hymnal: The Controversial Arts | 32 |
| Buckley, William F. Jr. | |
| How to Think about the American Revolution: A Bicentennial Cerebration | 34 |
| Jaffa, Harry V. | |
| Psychoanalytic Politics: Freud's French Revolution | 36 |
| Turkle, Sherry | |
| Take A Bishop Like Me | 40 |
| Moore, Paul Jr. | |
| Current Wisdom | 42 |
| Jackasses, Assorted |
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