24 MARCH 1984, page 9

The Price Of Amnesia

Christopher Hitchens Washington I n American journalism, the occupational vice is euphemism. In American televi- sion, the occupational vice is banality. In American publishing,......

Praying For Votes

Nicholas von Hoffman Washington S ince some sect or other detonated a bomb in a washroom of the Capitol, the guard has been reinforced, but the tour buses, the reverential......