| The Continuing Crisis | 2 |
| Capitol Ideas/ A Cross of Gold | 4 |
| Bethell, Tom | |
| Editorial / With the Senator from Newsweek / Afterthought | 5 |
| Tyrrell, R. Emmett Jr. | |
| The Trivialization of Friedrich Nietzsche | 7 |
| Dannhauser, Werner J. | |
| Allah and Man at Columbia | 13 |
| Ross, Mitchell S. | |
| Media Smears: One Man's Experiences | 17 |
| Sowell, Thomas | |
| The Nation's Pulse / Gildering the Lily | 21 |
| Haag, Ernest van den | |
| Eminentoes/ Ayn Rand, R.I.P | 24 |
| Bakshian, Aram Jr. | |
| Among the Intellectualoids / High Minds | 26 |
| Wooster, Martin Morse | |
| Correspondence | 29 |
| Ethnic America: A History / Markets and Minorities / Pink and Brown People, and Other Controversial Essays | 30 |
| Sowell, Thomas | |
| God's Fifth Column | 32 |
| Gerhardie, William | |
| Growing Up Underground | 34 |
| Alpert, Jane | |
| A Fistful of Fig Newtons | 36 |
| Shepherd, Jean | |
| Social Studies | 37 |
| Lebowitz, Fran | |
| Saki: A Life of Hector Hugh Munro | 38 |
| Langguth, A J. | |
| Current Wisdom | 42 |
| ackasses, Assorted J |
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