| The Continuing Crisis | 4 |
| Editorials/ Worst Books of the Year/Doped/Chef Kroc | 6 |
| Tyrrell, R. Emmett Jr. | |
| Capitol Ideas/ Smithwick and the Hive | 7 |
| Bethell, Tom | |
| The Big Cancer Lie | 10 |
| Efron, Edith | |
| The Befuddlement of American Catholicism | 18 |
| McGurn, William | |
| Conservative Homes and Gardens | 21 |
| Jamieson, T. John | |
| The Truth About Joe McCarthy | 23 |
| Bishop, William Rusher, with a reply by Joseph W. Jr. | |
| The Nation's Pulse / The Death of the Jackson Wing | 26 |
| Barnes, Fred | |
| Eminentoes /The Sickness of Comrade 'Dropoff | 28 |
| Karatnycky, Adrian | |
| The Talkies/Silkwood Vague | 31 |
| Bayles, Martha | |
| Reflections of a Neoconservative | 33 |
| Califano, Joseph A. Jr. | |
| The Troubled Crusade: American Education 1945-1980 | 35 |
| Turner, John R. | |
| Bernard Baruch | 36 |
| Yoder, Edwin M. Jr. | |
| The Anatomy Lesson | 38 |
| Johnston, George Sim | |
| The Last Testament of Oscar Wilde | 39 |
| Lewis, Roger | |
| Washington Irving: History, Tales, and Sketches, | 41 |
| Anant, Victor | |
| Politique Internationale/ Visions of Cairo | 45 |
| Taki | |
| Current Wisdom | 47 |
| Jackasses, Assorted |
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