1977
April 18
Essay: The Perils of Rising Protectionism
May 30
Book Review: American Hunger by Richard Wright
July 11
Cover Story: The Youth Crime Plague
Recognition: Letter from the Publisher
July 18
Book Review: The Totalitarian Temptation by Jean-Francois Revel
October 31
Essay: That Troublesome Panama Canal Treaty
1978
January 23
Obituary: Death of an American Original (Hubert Humphrey)
April 17
Essay: Mythologizing the Panama Canal
June 26
Book Review: A Time for Truth by William Simon; Two Cheers for Capitalism by Irving Kristol
July 10
Cover Story: Bakke Wins, Quotas Lose
December 18
Book Review: A Dangerous Place by Daniel Patrick Moynihan
1979
February 5
Obituary: The Champ Who Never Made It (Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller)
February 19
Book Review: History without a Hero by Curtis Cate
April 9
Book Review: The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt by Edmund Morris
April 30
Essay: Strengthening the CIA
Recognition: National Intelligence Study Center
October 15
Book Review: Zebra by Clark Howard Merek
October 29
Book Review: Breaking Ranks by Norman Podhoretz
November 12
Book Review: The Man who Kept the Secrets by Thomas Powers Knopf
1980
February 18
Essay: The Troubling Ethics of Abscam
May 19
Book Review: Wilderness of Mirrors by David C. Martin
July 21
Cover Story: Reagan Takes Command
August 25
Essay: Drawing the Battle Lines
Essay: Marketable Baskets of Issues
September 1
Essay: Dueling over Defense
October 6
Essay: War, Peace and Politics
October 13
Cover Story: The Jackpot States
October 20
Essay: Point Man Harold Brown
October 27
Essay: The Great Defense War
November 3
Essay: Another Contrary Congress
November 17
Essay: Draft Picks for the New Team
December 8
Essay: New Resolve by the New Right
December 29
Essay: Reagan Sticks with Haig