Let Us Talk of Many Things: The Collected Speeches Book

	Acknowledgments	xiii
	Foreword	xvi
	Notes from the Lecture Circuit: A New Yorker Essay	xxi
	The Fifties
	Today We Are Educated Men: An address to fellow graduates	3
	The Trojan Horse of American Education?: A defense of private schools	7
	The Artist as Aggressor: On congressional investigations	13
	Only Five Thousand Communists?: Welcoming the House Committee on Un-American Activities to town	16
	Should Liberalism Be Repudiated?: Debating James Wechsler	20
	The Sixties
	In the End, We Will Bury Him: Protesting Khrushchev's visit	33
	Scholar, Fighter, Westerner: Introducing Jacques Soustelle	38
	The Lonely Professor: Saluting O. Glenn Saxon	41
	An Island of Hope: Defending Taiwan's independence	42
	Norman Mailer and the American Right: A debate	48
	What Could We Learn from a Communist?: An appeal to the Yale Political Union	58
	Who Did Get Us into This Mess?: Debating Murray Kempton	68
	The Impending Defeat of Barry Goldwater: Off the record, to the Young Americans for Freedom	74
	A Growing Spirit of Resistance: To the New York Conservative Party	78
	The Free Society--What's That?: Applauding Henry Hazlitt	85
	Buckley versus Buckley: A self-interview, on running for mayor of New York	88
	The Heat of Mr. Truman's Kitchen: Celebrating National Review's tenth anniversary	93
	On Selling Books to Booksellers: Addressing the American Booksellers Association	96
	The Aimlessness of American Education: In defense of small colleges	100
	"You Have Seen Too Much in China": To a concerned organization	108
	The Duty of the Educated Catholic: To a high-school honors society	112
	Did You Kill Martin Luther King?: To the American Society of Newspaper Editors	117
	Life with a Meticulous Colleague: Saluting William A. Rusher	123
	On the Perspective of the Eighteen-Year-Old: To graduating high-school students	128
	Words to the Counterrevolutionary Young: Addressing the Young Americans for Freedom	133
	The Seventies
	On the Well-Tempered Spirit: A commencement address	145
	Resolutely on the Side of Yale's Survival: At a twentieth reunion	149
	The Republic's Duty to Repress: To a conference of judges	152
	"That Man I Trust": Appreciating James L. Buckley	163
	The World That Lenin Shaped: On visiting Brezhnev's Soviet Union	168
	John Kerry's America: To the cadets of West Point	179
	The West Berlin of China: Upon Taiwan's expulsion from the United Nations	184
	Affection, Guidance, and Peanut Brittle: A special toast	189
	On Preserving the Tokens of Hope and Truth: Saluting Henry Regnery	191
	Without Marx or Jesus?: To the American Society of Newspaper Editors	197
	The "Leftwardmost Viable Candidate": Debating John Kenneth Galbraith	202
	The Terrible Sadness of Spiro Agnew: To the New York Conservative Party	208
	The High Cost of Mr. Nixon's Deceptions: To the New York Conservative Party	211
	On Serving in the United Nations: Testimony to a Senate committee	213
	No Dogs in China: At the National War College	218
	The Courage of Friedrich Hayek: Addressing the Mont Pelerin Society	223
	The Protracted Struggle against Cancer: To the American Cancer Society	235
	A Salutary Impatience: A commencement address	238
	Cold Water on the Spirit of Liberty: Replying to President Carter	242
	The Reckless Generosity of John Chamberlain: A tribute	249
	A Party for Henry Kissinger: A birthday toast	252
	What Americanism Seeks to Be: To the Young Republicans	255
	The Eighties
	His Rhythms Were Not of This World: Remembering Allard Lowenstein	261
	The Rudolph Valentino of the Marketplace: Saluting Milton Friedman	263
	The Greatness of James Burnham: To a friend and mentor	268
	Halfway between Servility and Hostility: At a historic college	272
	Earl Warren and the Meaning of the Constitution: Addressing a class of future lawyers	275
	Sing a Song of Praise to Failure: At a graduate business school	277
	How Leo Cherne Spent Christmas: An introduction	287
	10 Downing Street: The Girls Club of Britain: A transatlantic salute	290
	Moral Distinctions and Modern Warfare: Parsing nuclear war	292
	Democracy and the Pursuit of Happiness: A commencement address	301
	The Genesis of Blackford Oakes: On the distinctively American male	308
	Waltzing at West 44th Street: An ode to the America's Cup	316
	The Blood of Our Fathers Ran Strong: Celebrating National Review's thirtieth anniversary	320
	The Distinguished Mr. Buckley: Introducing a best-selling novelist	322
	On Her Way to the Cross: Remembering Clare Boothe Luce	324
	Out of Oppression, a Political Poet: Introducing Vladimir Bukovsky	329
	The Massive Eminence of Dr. Sakharov: A salute	332
	Towards a Recovery of Gratitude: To the Intercollegiate Studies Institute	334
	A Hero of the Reagan Revolution: Applauding Jack Kemp	337
	The Pagan Love Song of Murray Kempton: An appreciation	339
	The Nineties
	Dismantling the Evil Empire: On the end of the Soviet Union	347
	The Simon Persona: A tribute to a critic	351
	A Distinctive Gentility: Recollections of Yale	353
	Time to Go to Bed: A valedictory	360
	Taxation and the Rule of Law: Analyzing Reaganomics	364
	Can Eastern Europe Be Saved?: To the Philadelphia Society	369
	Singularly Humane: Introducing Aileen Mehle	375
	"If He Gives the Blessing...": A toast to Monsignor Eugene Clark	378
	We Won. What Now?: At the end of the Cold War	380
	The Politics of the Common Man: On modern political manners	383
	"Better Redwoods than Deadwoods": Encountering Arthur Schlesinger Jr.	387
	The Architectural Splendor of Barry Goldwater: A tribute	389
	From Wm to Wm: Remembering William F. Rickenbacker	392
	O. J. Simpson and Other Ills: Analyzing current concerns	397
	The Drug War Is Not Working: To the New York City Bar Association	404
	Let Us Now Praise Famous Men: To the twelfth International Churchill Conference	409
	The Underperformance of the Press: The Theodore H. White Memorial Lecture	416
	The Mother Hen of Modern Conservatism: Introducing Lady Thatcher	426
	Who Cares If Homer Nodded?: To the graduating class	429
	How to Work, How to Read, How to Love: Remembering Richard Clurman	434
	A Serene Gravity: Acknowledging Walter Cronkite	435
	The Special Responsibility of Conservatives: To the International Conservative Congress	437
	The Personal Grace of J. K. Galbraith: A birthday tribute	443
	A Man Who Looks the Beggar in the Face: Saluting William E. Simon	445
	Forgiving the Unforgivable: On President Clinton's problem	447
	The Animating Indiscretions of Ronald Reagan: A birthday tribute	457
	Preserving the Heritage: On the Heritage Foundation's twenty-fifth anniversary	464
	Index	479