| Correspondence | 7 |
| Editorials/The Pope's God/Gruesome Interludes | 8 |
| Tyrrell, R. Emmett Jr. | |
| Capitol Ideas/What a Fool Believes | 9 |
| Bethell, Tom | |
| On the Condition of American Liberalism | 12 |
| The Unjust World of Bernhard Goetz | 18 |
| Tucker, William | |
| Democracy in the Third World: Egypt's High-Risk Experiment | 22 |
| O'Lessker, Karl | |
| The Life of the Mind | 24 |
| Bayles, Martha | |
| Presswatch/Big Media Jitters | 28 |
| Barnes, Fred | |
| Eminentoes/The Love Doctor | 30 |
| Ferguson, Andrew | |
| European Document/A Reply to Patrick Cosgrave | 32 |
| Donnelly, Brendan | |
| Idols for Destruction | 35 |
| Schlossberg, Herbert | |
| Getting to Know the General | 39 |
| Greene, Graham | |
| In Love and War | 41 |
| Jim & Stockdale, Sybil | |
| The Economic Illusion | 42 |
| Kuttner, Robert | |
| An American Procession | 44 |
| Kazin, Alfred | |
| James BoswelL" The Later Years, 1769-1795 | 45 |
| Brady, Frank | |
| A Book of One's Own." People and Their Diaries | 46 |
| Mallon, Thomas | |
| Spectator's Journal/Nehru III | 47 |
| Anant, Victor | |
| Current Wisdom | 50 |
| Jackasses, Assorted |
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