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Vintage CRB - Volume IV, No. 2 - Summer 1985

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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

John A. Wettergreen on the Jaffa-Pangle exchange: The Politics of Moderation: Strauss's Esotericism


ESSAYS


George Anastaplo: The Teacher as Learner: On Discussion

Harold W. Rood: Win a Few, Lose a Few: WWII Remembered


REVIEWS

The Editors: Soft-Hearted
A review of Losing Ground: American Social Policy, 1950-1980, by Charles Murray

John W. Coffey: Democracy and Arms Control
A review of Arms Control: Myth Versus Reality, edited by Richard F. Starr

Ralph C. Hancock: Barbarism with a Human Face
A review of Strong Democracy: Participatory Politics for a New Age, by Benjamin Barber

R.S. Hill: Wrong-Headed
A review of Cincinnatus: George Washington and the Enlightenment, by R.S. Hill

Harry Neumann: Liberal Education: The Beckmann Retrospective
A review of The Beckmann Retrospective, an exhibit at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art

Walter Nicgorski: Reason, Politics, and Christian Belief
A review of The God of Faith and Reason: Foundations of a Christian Theology, by Robert Sokolowski

Ronald Maurice Peterson: A Misogynistic Machiavelli
A review of Fortune is a Woman: Gender and Politics in the Thought of Niccolo Machiavelli, by Hanna Fenichel Pitkin

Gregory B. Smith: Socrates and Political Philosophy
A review of Four Texts on Socrates: Plato's Euthyphro, Apology, and Crito, and Aristophanes' Clouds, translated with notes by Thomas G. West and Grace Starry West

Lindsay Thompson: Literary Criticism
A review of The American Novel and the Way We Live Now, by John W. Aldridge, and Panic Among the Philistines, by Bryan F. Griffin

Lauren Weiner: William Kennedy, Revised Edition
A review of Ironweed, The Ink Truck, Legs, and Billy Phelan's Greatest Game, by William Kennedy

Thomas G. West: Nobility in the American Founding
A review of American Political Writing During the Founding Era, 1760-1805, edited by Charles S. Hyneman & Donald S. Lutz 


BOOKS IN  BRIEF


The Politics by Aristotle, translated by Carnes Lord; The Lost Soul of American Politics: Virtue, Self-Interest, and the Foundations of Liberalism, by John P. Diggins; The Prick of Noon, by Peter DeVries


REDUCTIO AD ABSURDUM


FLICK-FLACK


Ladyhawke; The Sure Thing; The Purple Rose of Cairo; The Gods Must Be Crazy; Alamo Bay; Rambo: First Blood, Part II

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