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Your Weekly Guide to the Best National Review Magazine Articles from the '50s, '60s, and '70s

This Week's Featured Issue: December 22, 1972

Please Enjoy the Following NR Articles . . .

The Future of American Politics
By Kevin Phillips

The early '70s saw a huge upheaval in American politics. The Republicans had a chance to latch on to a large segment of the old New Deal vote. Kevin Phillips thought that the Nixon administration failed to see the opportunity for what it was and was poised to miss it. Read the article here.

Frisking: The Social Dividend
By William F. Buckley, Jr.

In his "On the Right" column, WFB writes about the ACLU's concern over airport frisking, a "fusion" candidate running for NYC mayor, and the uproar over a political poll given to Princeton faculty members. Read it here.

An Explosive Chess Game
By Nena Ossa

NR's Chilean correspondent reports on the anti-Communist strikes in that country and speculates on the sympathies of General Prats. The possibility of Allende's Communists gaining control of the military was a real threat. No one foresaw Prat retiring and the rise of Pinochet. Read the piece here.

The Sudden Death of Feticide
By Russell Kirk

Abortion-on-demand proposals on ballots in November, 1971, in Michigan and North Dakota were defeated and New York's legislature repealed its liberal abortion law (although Governor Rockefeller vetoed the bill.) Russell Kirk predicted that the campaign for legalized abortion was too unpopular to gain traction. One month later the Supreme Court took the matter out of the states' hands. Read the piece here.

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