Happy Days Were Here Again by Buckley-Jr., William F. -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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Praise ALSO BY WILLIAM F. BUCKLEY JR. Title Page Dedication Acknowledgements Introduction ONE - ASSAILING

1 - The So-Whatness of Nuclear Winter 2 - Jesse on My Mind 3 - Cuomitis 4 - Black Thought, Black Talk 5 - Excavating the Titanic 6 - The Birth of BuckPac 7 - Lenny Explains 8 - Eight Down, ? To Go 9 - Count Me Out 10 - The Perils of Perotocracy 11 - It’s a Wonderful Life 12 - I Confess 13 - Religion Scorned 14 - Terminological Right of Way 15 - Sleaze, 18-Karat 16 - Legal Legerdemain 17 - The Professor Doesn’t Understand 18 - Understanding “Fairness” 19 - It Is Too Much! 20 - His Supreme Preppiness

TWO - ANALYZING

1 - THE GREAT GORBACHEV YEARS

—1985: GORBACHEV COMES IN —1988: SO LONG, EVIL EMPIRE? —1989: EXITING AFGHANISTAN —1989: GORBACHEV MEETS THE POPE —1989: HALLELUJAH! —1992: THE SOVIET UNION IS DEAD

2 - THE ACADEMIC SCENE

—HANOVER BLUES —THE GREAT PURGE —PASSION AMONG IVYPERSONS —THE INDIAN AT DARTMOUTH —THE PROTESTERS AT WESLEYAN —COMMENCEMENT TIME! —ON LEARNING FROM OTHER CULTURES

3 - MORALS, RELIGION, AND CENSORSHIP

—PLAYBOY NEEDS YOUR HELP —SEX AND PARADOX THE STRANGE USES OF TOLERANCE —ARE YOU “RESPONSIBLE”? —SEE NO GOD? —THE SURRENDER OF THE CORCORAN GALLERY UNDERSTANDING MAPPLETHORPE

4 - THE NOMINATION OF CLARENCE THOMAS

—THE RESISTANCE OF BLACK LEADERS —THE REASONS THOMAS IS UNFIT —THE END OF THE AFFAIR

5 - THE GULF WAR

—THE UNITED NATIONS AS PARTNER —IS IT WORTH JOEY’S LIFE? —STOP THE U.S.S.R. NOW —GEORGE BUSH FACES DOWN INSTITUTIONAL CHRISTIANITY —THE ABANDONMENT OF THE KURDS —CAUSING TEARS

THREE - COMMENTING

—OH, FOR THE SIMPLE TRANSACTION —THE FIGHT AGAINST HO-HUM ANTI-TERRORISM —MAKING POLICY AS THE CROW FLIES —MORE OF THE SAME —THE EXQUISITE PHILANTHROPY OF MR. LANG —IS THERE A ROLE FOR THE MORALIST? —QUICK! GET MILTON FRIEDMAN ON THE LINE! —WE’LL SEE YOU FOR $100 BILLION —THE SLOW DEATH OF PRINCESS DI —RESTORATION TIME? —AN AGENDA FOR CONSERVATIVES

FOUR - REFLECTING

1 - Remembering Communism

—TEN YEARS AFTER VIETNAM —WHAT IF THEY WERE NAZIS? —TERRORISM AT THE EXPENSE OF THE SOVIETS? —RONALD REAGAN AT THE U.N. —HOW TO DEAL WITH ONE’S DISSIDENTS —KILLED IN NICARAGUA —THE U.N. TURNS TO HUMAN RIGHTS IN CUBA —TIANANMEN: A CRACK IN THE CONCRETE? —TIANANMEN: SO WHAT DO WE DO NOW? —TO BIND THE WOUNDS —LENIN’S GETTING OLD —A HISTORY OF THE COLD WAR?

2 - Combat Duty for Women ? 3 - Three Critical Views of Democratic Fetishism

A) DEMOCRACY—A CURE-ALL? B) DEMOCRACY IN HAITI C) OVERTAXING DEMOCRACY

4 - How Dangerous Is the Voters’ Ignorance? 5 - Poor Jim Baker 6 - On Resisting Temptation 7 - Can a Tax-Deductible Church Take Sides? 8 - On Having Fun with the Fundamentalists 9 - Opportunizing on Chernobyl 10 - There Is Danger in Honoring Evil Men 11 - The United Nations’ Fortieth Anniversary, 1985 12 - As We Get Older, Do We See More? 13 - Can We Resurrect the Idea of Sin? Sinfulness? 14 - The West Has to Believe in Its Uniqueness 15 - Redefining “Smart” 16 - Reflections on the Perils of the Holiday Season

FIVE - SNAPSHOTS

—GOP CONVENTION NOTES, 1992 —THE KGB EXONERATES ALGER HISS —GEORGE WILL OVERBOARD —SEVER DIPLOMATIC RELATIONS WITH NICARAGUA? —WELCOME TO THE SEVEN O’CLOCK NEWS —ANTHONY LEWIS, REPORTER

SIX - CORRESPONDING

SEVEN - PLAYING

1 - See You Later 2 - Playing a Duet with Isaac Stern 3 - An Attempt at Explaining ... 4 - The Indenture of the Dog Lovers 5 - Down to the Great Ship

EIGHT - APPRECIATING

1 - A Brief Exposure 2 - Happy Birthday to Malcolm 3 - Theodore White, R.I.P. 4 - The Perils of Baptism 5 - Sidney Hook, R.I.P. 6 - Is Beethoven a “Monument”? 7 - Olof Palme, R.I.P. 8 - Paul Weiss, Eighty-five 9 - Nixon’s Penultimate Days 10 - A Tribute to Herbert Hoover 11 - Nancy and Ronald Reagan 12 - Evelyn Waugh 13 - Malcolm Muggeridge, R.I.P. 14 - A Toast to William A. Rusher 15 - Clare Boothe Luce, R.I.P. 16 - William Shawn, R.I.P. 17 - Reginald Stoops, R.I.P. 18 - Christopher Columbus 19 - Gratitude

NINE - CELEBRATING

1 - Happy Birthday to J. S. Bach 2 - Fernando Valenti and the “Goldberg Variations” 3 - A Storm: Afterthoughts 4 - A Quiet American 5 - Dedicating a Competitor for the America’s Cup 6 - The Tribute to Jack Kemp 7 - On the Thirtieth Anniversary of National Review

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