| The Continuing Crisis | 2 |
| Editorial | 3 |
| Tyrrell, R. Emmett Jr. | |
| The Business of America | 4 |
| Clark, Lindley H. Jr. | |
| Southeast Asia: Accommodation or Surrender? | 5 |
| Kroef, Justus M. van der | |
| Buchanan: The Apodiabolosis that Failed | 8 |
| wheeler, Richard | |
| The California Welfare Reforms of 1971 | 9 |
| Chickering, A. Lawrence | |
| Contributors | 10 |
| Everybody Above Average | 11 |
| Haag, Ernest van den | |
| Letter from a Whig | 12 |
| Slemp, C. Bascom | |
| Social Revolution in China | 13 |
| Wittfogel, Karl A. | |
| An Assassin's Diary | 17 |
| Duggan, J. P. | |
| At the End of the Day | 18 |
| Cosgrave, Patrick | |
| The Public Policy | 19 |
| Brudnoy's Film Index | 20 |
| Retreat from Victory | 22 |
| Grant, James | |
| Correspondence | 23 |
| The Bootblack Stand | 25 |
| Current Wisdom | 26 |
| Jackasses, Assorted |
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