1983/02 — Contents as follows: Reports & Comment: Voting: What Midterm Results Mean by Richard M. Scammon Washington: Less Red Ink by Milton Friedman Paris: Unhappy Allies by John Carson Parker Watching the Russians by Cullen Murphy Mrs. Six Legs — A short story by Edward Minus White Clover — A poem by Marvin Bell [...]
1982/12 — Contents as follows: Reports & Comment: Smyrna, Tenn: A Japanese Auto Maker Finds a Home by Michael Lenehan Morocco: A Friend in Need by Pranay Gupte The Price of Power by Seymour M. Hersh – Kissinger, Nixon, and Chile “The Chambered Nautilus” a short story by H.L. Mountzoures Assisting Stravinsky by Robert Craft [...]
1982/10 — Contents as follows: Reports & Comment: London: God Save the Monarch by Bernard Levin Washington: Outside the Mainstream by Jennifer Seymour Whitaker Divad — The Army’s new “ultra” weapon may not work very well, but it’s expensive – by Gregg Easterbrook Loyal – A Poem by William Matthews Monday NIghts – A Short [...]
1982/08 — Contents as follows: Reports & Comment: Economics: Producing Something from Nothing by Robert B. Zevin Tegucigalpa: Honduras on the Edge by Loren Jenkins Argentina: The Falklands and Colonialism by J.P. Taylor The Politics of Crime – Powerful forces oppose the steps that could reduce violent crime – by Richard Neely The Quality of [...]
1982/06 — Contents as follows: Reports & Comment: Indonesia: An Effort to Hold Together by James Fallows Washington: Environmental Deregulation by David Osborne Waiting for the End – Millions of Americans Expect Doomsday this Decade – by William Martin Life Without Pain – A Short Story by Leslie Epstein The Myth of Oppressive Corporate Taxes [...]
1982/05 — Contents as follows: Reports & Comment: Washington: Endless Deficits by James Fallows Solar Energy: No Profit in Politics by Byron Harrin Kissinger and Nixon in the White House by Seymour M. Hersh The Power of Positive Buying by Robert M. Strozier Where the Water is Wide – A Short Story by Dianne Benedict [...]
1982/04 — Contents as follows: Reports & Comment: The United Nations: Rules of the House by Bernard D. Nossiter Conservation: Counting the Whales by William McCloskey Chicago Highbrow by James Atlas Promising the Air — A poem by Stnaley Plumly Intersection — A drawing by Guy Billout The Years of Lyndon Johnson by Robert A. [...]
1982/03 — Contents as follows: Reports & Comment: Foreign Policy: Outmoded Assumptions by Henry Steele Commager Northfield, Vt.: Scratching the Surface by Floyd C. Stuart Broken Windows – Every neighborhood desperately wants order, but we are relucatant to let police maintain it — by James Q. Wilson and George L. Kelling Playing Trombone – a [...]
1982/02 — Contents as follows: Reports & Comment: The Bomb: The Last Epidemic by Peter H. Stone Jerusalen: Symbols of Recognition by Richard Sennett Have You Ever Tried to Sell a Diamond? – The sentimental value of diamonds may be forever, but their market value is theatened from several directions — by Edward Jay Epstein [...]
1982/01 — Contents as follows: Reports & Comment: Cancun: “North” and “South” at the Summit by Sanford J. Ungar London: Local Surprises by Janet Morgan Cairo: They Don’t Miss Sadat by Jennifer Seymour Whitaker The Economy: Inflation and Uncertainty by John Case The Kennedy Imprisonment – Part 1. The Prisoner of Charisma – On John [...]
1981/10 — Contents as follows: Reports & Comment: Kyoto: A Gorgeous “Na” Melody by Mary Jo Salter Krakow: Russophobia in Poland by Timothy Crouse Living on the Fault Line by James Fallows The Years of Lyndon Johnson by Robert A. Caro An Instinct fr the Game by David Halberstam – what it takes to play [...]
1981/09 — Contents as follows: Reports & Comment: Washington: The Return of the ABM by Fred Kaplan Resources: Oil, Fish, and Georges Bank by William MacLeish “Cathedral” a short story by Raymond Carver “Kneeling Down to Look Into a Culvert” a poem by Robert Bly The Kingdom of Auschwitz by Otto Friedrich “The Prophet’s Hair” [...]
1981/08 — Contents as follows: Washington Defense, Taxes and the Budget by James Fallows Hanoi: The Problems of Peace by Stanley Karnow On Chekhov by Vladimir Nabokov — one master explains another — 5 pages The Ultimate Toy by Tracy Kidder During the War — A Poem by Marvin Bell The Wasp — A Drawing [...]
1981/07 — Contents as follows: Europe: The End of a Miracle by Edward Jay Epstein and Jeffrey Steingarten Washington: The Vietnam Generation by James Fallows “Pygmalion” — A Story — by John Updike Among the Believers — An Islamic Journey — by V.S. Naipaul Debating the Unknowable — Some scientific arguments — by Lewis Thomas [...]
1981/05 — Contents as follows: Reports & Comment: Wyoming: The Solace of Open Spaces by Gretal Ehrlich Your Transit Commission by Garrison Keillor America’s High-Tech Weaponry by James Fallows “Look Homeward, Angel” – a story by Philip Roth Betrayal on the Left by Edward Sorel “Crows” a poem by Charles Simic A Father Figure for [...]
1981/04 — Contents as follows: Paris: A Taste of the New Age by Mavis Gallant “The Museum” — A Story by Ian Frazier The New Economic Faith by Robert B. Zevin “Mushrooms” — A Poem by Margaret Atwood Medicine Without Science by Lewis Thomas “In the Run” — A Story by Philip Roth “At the [...]
1981/02 — Contents as follows: Back to the Gold Standard? by James K. Glassman Teaching a Stone to Talk – a meditation on silence – by Annie Dillard Rite of Passage – Watching old age turn into a childhood; a memoir — by Anthony Brandt Of Sex and the Catholic Church – Liberal Catholics confront [...]
1981/01 — Contents as follows: Cease This Madness — Our Collision Course with the USSR — by George F. Kennan The New Snobbery: How to Show Off in America by John Brooks The Rise of the Newsocracy: All the News All the Time by Louis Banks New England Recaptured: The World of the Howes Brothers [...]
1980/12 — Contents as follows: Ulster’s Children by Robert Coles Words Upon the Greatness of William McGonagall The Names of Christmas by John Ciardi “Look Out for Turkey Wart” And other advice from Thurber to E.B. White by James Thurber Museums and Hype by Deborah Trustman FICTION: “The Man Who Counted” by John P. Sisk [...]
1980/11 — 123rd Anniversary IssueContents as follows: The Wallenberg Mystery by Kati Marton Escape From Boredom: A Defector’s Story by Nora Beloff Shooky Fink’s Backyard Diamond by John McCormick Environmental Vigilante by Kenneth Brower Margaret Drabble: Cautious Feminist by Diana Cooper Clark FICTION: “My Uncle’s Story” by Leslie Norris “A.D. 991″ by Jorge Luis Borges [...]
1980/10 — Contents as follows: The Presidential Race: Decision or Deadlock Foreward by Robert Manning Looking at Reagan by James Conaway Is It All Carter’s Fault? by James Fallows What Happens If Nobody Wins by Laurence H. Tribe and Thomas M. Rollins Governor vs. Governor by Stephen Chapman Portfolio: The Photographer as Artist by Arnold [...]
1980/09 — Contents as follows: American Industry: What Ails It, How to Save It by James Fallows Is There a Russian Energy Crisis? by Marshall I. Goldman The Silver Scam: How the Hunts Were Outfoxed by Alan Trustman A State of Grace: Understanding the Martial Arts by Don Ethan Miller The Cult of Candor by [...]
1980/08 — Contents as follows: Picking the President: Time to Change the Rules by Terry Sanford Learning the Language, From A to M — Adventures in etymology — by John Ciardi “I Thought My Last Hour Had Come …” – An eyewitness account of the bombing of Hiroshima — by Robert Guillain Lunch With Anthony [...]
1980/07 — Contents as follows: The Politics of Grain by Dan Morgan The Cruelest Game by E.J. Kahn, Jr. about backgammon Making It Through Hard Times by Ann Banks The Doomsday Scenario by Deborah Trustman FICTION: “Poppa’s Books” by Jay Neugeboren “Who He Slept By” by Linda Svendsen POETRY: “The Surround” by James Dickey “Three [...]
1980/06 — Contents as follows: Playing Games The Case Against the Moscow Olympics by Joseph Brodsky How to Avert a New “Cold War” by George McGovern The Future of the Photovoltaic Cell by Tracy Kidder The Third Kind of Knowledge by Robert Fitzgerald Annie, Don’t Get Your Gun by Mary Jo Salter FICTION: “St. Stephen’s [...]
