| Scrapbook | 4 |
| Casual | 6 |
| Correspondence | 8 |
| Stand By Your Man | 11 |
| Stick it to the democrats | 13 |
| PODHORETZ, JOHN | |
| the speaker and his friends | 14 |
| BARNES, FRED | |
| An AGenda for the new congress | 17 |
| KRISTOL, WILLIAM | |
| health care: beware the 'little fix' | 22 |
| FRUM, DAVID | |
| Four Steps to a Smaller Washington | 28 |
| The Bad news about 1998 | 34 |
| BARONE, MICHAEL | |
| Special Correspondence | 37 |
| Homosexualizing Henry James | 40 |
| LYONS, DONALD | |
| The Profound Hack | 43 |
| Wilson, Bottum and John | |
| PARODY | 48 |
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