| The Continuing Crisis | 8 |
| Correspondence | 9 |
| Editorials/Beauty and the Beasts/Gorby of Mayberry | 10 |
| Tyrrell, R. Emmett Jr. | |
| Capitol Ideas/Divided Over Defense | 11 |
| Bethell, Tom | |
| A New McCarthyism: The List Continues | 14 |
| O'Rourke, P. J. | |
| The Mysteries of RU-486 | 17 |
| Allen, Charlotte Low | |
| Special Report: The Asbestos Rip-Off | 21 |
| Fumento, Michael | |
| Special Report: Brat Pack II | 27 |
| Heard, Alex | |
| Spectator's Journal/Carrot and Shtick | 30 |
| Teachout, Terry | |
| Presswatch/Supreme Court Press | 32 |
| Eastland, Terry | |
| Eminentoes/Gold Diggers of '89 | 34 |
| Queenan, Joe | |
| The Nation's Pulse/Four for Baseball's Good Old Days | 35 |
| Gold, Victor | |
| The California Spectator/Let's Rake a Deal | 37 |
| Stein, Benjamin J. | |
| The Talkies/In Woody's Shadow | 38 |
| Bawer, Bruce | |
| The Culture We Deserve | 41 |
| Barzun, Jacques | |
| Memoirs of a Counter-Revolutionary | 44 |
| Cruz, Arturo Jr. | |
| God's Dust | 45 |
| Buruma, Ian | |
| Collected Poems | 46 |
| Larkin, Philip | |
| Now, Where Were We? | 48 |
| Blount, Roy Jr. | |
| Current Wisdom | 51 |
| Jackasses, Assorted |
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