A virtucrat remembers / Joseph Epstein -- Notes of a journey / Julius Lester -- How I spent my summer vacation / Martha Bayles -- The New Left / Jeffrey Herf -- Liberal in the middle / John H. Bunzel -- Looking backward / Peter Collier -- Letter to a political friend / David Horowitz -- On hanging up the old red flag / Ronald Radosh -- Errand into the wilderness / Michael Novak -- Why did you sign that ad? / James Finn -- The wide and crooked path / Carol