| The Continuing Crisis | 2 |
| Editorial/The Worst Book of the Year | 4 |
| Tyrrell, R. Emmett Jr. | |
| Capitol Ideas/A Strange New Respect | 5 |
| Bethell, Tom | |
| Whoring After the New Thing | 7 |
| Griffin, Bryan F. | |
| One Baby for You, One Baby for Me | 15 |
| Tung, Tung | |
| The Rapid Deployment Farce | 18 |
| Koehl, Stuart L. & Glick, Stephen P. | |
| The Transition Control Center | 21 |
| Nollson, John | |
| "Special" Correspondence | 23 |
| The Public Policy/An Even More Dismal Science | 26 |
| Stark, Andy | |
| The Great American Saloon Series/Billy Goat's | 29 |
| Ertel, George | |
| Shrinking History: On Freud and the Failure of Psychohistory | 31 |
| Stannard, David E. | |
| The Winding Passage: Essays and Sociological Journeys 1960-1980 | 33 |
| Bell, Daniel | |
| Saul Bellow: Drumlin Woodchuck | 34 |
| Harris, Mark | |
| Current Wisdom | 38 |
| Jackasses, Assorted |
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