The A.T.&T. SettlementRonald Brownstein
The Promise and the Problems
About Knowledge and DecisionsWilliam Havender
A Review of Thomas Sowell's Knowledge and Decisions
The Abstract Concept of Human LibertyRobert LeFevre
A guiding star beyond the levels of people, events and things
The Acid Rain WarRobert Sherrill
Reagan Inc. Dumps on Canada
Ad Game in El SalvadorWayne Biddle
The Selling of D'Aubuisson
Adam Smith's Economics of FreedomJohn Montgomery
Our debt to one of the great advocates of the market economy.
Additives AnonymousTom Hundley
If you only go around once, you better know what's in your drink.
Adventures in UnhistoryAvram Davidson
The Boy Who Cried Werewolf
Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, March 1982, pp. 116-139
Adventures of the MindLewis Thomas, M.D.
Self-Sacrifice for Others
The Saturday Evening Post, May 1982, pp. 42-45
Adventures of the MindCarl Sagan
Can We Know the Universe?
The Saturday Evening Post, July 1982, pp. 44-49
Africa and Foreign AidFrederick W. Stokeld
Using Scarce Resources Wisely
Africa---Challenges and ResponsesA. Bolaji Akinyemi
A Foreign Policy Perspective
African FlashpointsRaymond W. Copson
Prospects for Armed International Conflict
After Silkwood, GalatiaRoberta Lynch
Kerrr-McGee Tries Union Territory
After The Budget Axe FallsDale H. Gieringer
Can the arts, education, job training, science, and aid for the poor survive government...
Articles
After West BeirutMilton Viorst
Jordanians Ask, Are We Next?
Afternoon SessionSamuel E. Karff
Reform Judaism's Adaptation to America
Afternoon SessionHarold S. Kushner
The American-Jewish Experience: A Conservative Perspective
Afternoon SessionWalter S. Wurzburger
Denominationalism and the American Experience---An Orthodox View
The Age of the Artful Put-DownAlex Heard
Nowadays, everyone's a Mencken.
The Washington Monthly, May 1982, pp. 35-40
Agency under siegeLillieanne Chase
Consumers and builders alike have plenty of complaints about the Contractors State Lice...
Agenda: Jobs for EveryoneRobert M. Kaus
There's work to do, and there are people to work. So what's the problem?
Agent WhiteKeith Schneider
For the defoliation jobs Agent Orange couldn't finish, the Army called in Agent White. ...
Agents Protection ActHerman Schwartz
A Constitutional Disaster
Agricultural Land ProtectionE.C. Pasour, Jr.
Is Government Intervention Warranted?
Alexander ZinovievPhilip Hanson
Totalitarianism from Below
Algeria 1954-1982Kuider Sami Nair
Social Forces and Blocs in Power
Alien SexDr. Robert A. Freitas, Jr.
Analog/Astounding Science Fiction, June 1982, pp. 46-53
All for Love: Europe in the SpringtimeJohn P. Sisk
Love dopes the Western world
All This and Heaven TooSteve Salerno
Do cardinals eat pizza? We know all about the pomp, and almost nothing about their circ...
Along the Mexican BorderVictor Perera
Two Cultures, Two Extinctions
Ambivalence, Ambiguity, and ContradictionRichard O. Curry and Lawrence B. Goodheart
Garrisonian Abolitionists and Nonviolence
America Asean and the Japanese ChallengeU.S. Economic Policy Toward the Association of Southeast Asian Nations: Meeting the Jap...
An American Dilemma: The Military Racial MixBlacks and the Military Discusses the Complex Issues Raised By the Disproportionate Rep...
American EyeThomas A. Bass
The California Unconscious
The North American Review (New), March 1982, pp. 4-11
American EyeMargaret Morganroth Gullette
Sheep May Freely Graze
American EyeJohn Morgan
Notes from Wales (Alaska)
The American House of Saud, ISteven Emerson
The Petrodollar Connection
The American IdeaRalph Bradford
The spiritual, political and economic antecedents of freedom.
American Intellectual ConservatismClaes G. Ryn
Needs, Opportunities, Prospects
American MiscellanyAlexander Theroux
The evangelist as a social type
The American ProsceniumForeign Policy---Modesty---Nixon Returns to Duke
The American ProsceniumPoor John Wilkes Booth---Political Philosophy---ERA to RIP
The American ProsceniumPublishing and Dissemination
The American ProsceniumHenry Fonda, R.I.P.---Ralph Moody, R.I.P.
The American ProsceniumPeace on Earch Without Heaven
The American ProsceniumCourage and Greatness---Economygate
American Women Make Lousy LoversTaki
Another chapter from the ugly history of American feminism by an erudite student of the...
Americans as Guinea PigsLeonard A. Cole
The Army's Secret Germ-Testing
America's Master of Formal VerseBrad Leithauser
Reconsideration: Richard Wilbur
America's Voluntary EstablishmentWade Clark Roof
Mainline Religion in Transition
"Amid the New Depressions"David Bensman
Hard Times for American Labor
Anatomy of an electorateTony Quinn
There is a fickle one-fourth of California voters whose ballots actually determine whic...
And Now for Some Good Economic News!Russell Shannon
Computers and other innovations in technology signal market progress.
Annual Financial SectionInterview with Franz Pick
Articles
The Antinomies of PeaceFerenc Feher and Agnes Heller
ApartnersPhyllis B. Grodsky and Arthur Weinberger
Appeal From ExileMansour Farhang
Khomeini's Reign of Terror
Aptitudes vs. AchievementChristopher Jencks and James Crouse
Should We Replace the SAT?
Are the New Economic Models the Answer?Martin Neil Baily
The Flaws in Mainstream Economics Have Shown Clearly in the Past Decade, and New Ideas ...
Argentina on the BrinkHans F. Sennholz
An expert view of the history and the prospect for freedom in Argentina.
Articles
Arms Trade or Cutting ToolsAmos Kenan
The Dilemma of Israel's Future
ArtHarvey Mudd and Ken Price
Philip Marlowe, where are you?
ArtRuth Berenson
Portrait of the Artist in Three Dimensions
ArtJoe Zucker
Left and Right Hand Devils
Art Versus CollectiblesEdward C. Banfield
If the government really wants to promote the appreciation of art, it should flood the ...
Artistic LicensesPhilip Weiss
In New York City, credentialism invades ones of the last bastions of creativity.
The Arts of Self-DefenseAva Plakins and William Tifft
As The World TurnsMichael Massing
Newspapers for the Privileged
As the World TurnsWilliam Thwaites and Frank Awbrey
Can Creationists Keep Time?
New Mike Shayne Short Novel
The Assassination of Mike ShayneBrett Halliday
New Mike Shayne Short Novel
Mike Shayne's Mystery Magazine, June 1982, pp. 4-31
Assessing Social Security EffectsEconomic Effects of Social Security Argues That Decisions About the Future of Social Se...
Assessing the New International OrderDavid Osterfeld
Prospects for Third World Development
Assisting StravinskyRobert Craft
A misunderstood collaboration
The Atlantic PuzzlerEmily Cox and Henry Rathvon
The Atlantic PuzzlerEmily Cox and Henry Rathvon
The Atlantic PuzzlerEmily Cox and Henry Rathvon
The Atlantic PuzzlerEmily Cox and Henry Rathvon
The Atlantic PuzzlerEmily Cox and Henry Rathvon
The Atlantic Monthly, May 1982, pp. 110-112
The Atlantic PuzzlerEmily Cox and Henry Rathvon
The Atlantic PuzzlerEmily Cox and Henry Rathvon
The Atlantic PuzzlerEmily Cox and Henry Rathvon
The Atlantic PuzzlerEmily Cox and Henry Rathvon
The Atlantic PuzzlerEmily Cox and Henry Rathvon
The Atlantic PuzzlerEmily Cox and Henry Rathvon
The Atlantic PuzzlerEmily Cox and Henry Rathvon
Attacks on Nuclear ReactorsBennett Ramberg
The Implications of Israel's Striek on Osiraq
The Baby Boom: Another ViewThe Baby Boom Generation and the Economy Evaluates the Actual Impact of the Postwar Gen...
Back on TrackJoel Parker #2 and Dan Biggs
Baggage: The $310 Million Paranoia SubsidyPatrick Brogan
All those airport X-ray machines are a waste of money
The Balanced-Budget AmendmentDonald Lambro
The Constitution to the Rescue
Banning Baggies and BongsJeff Riggenbach
The DEA is aggressively peddling an anti-headshop act to state and local government tha...
"Barbarous Strangers"Charles Ingrao
Hessian State and Society during the American Revolution
The Battle of Back CreekI. Dean Ahmad
The Big Guys Wanted a Piece of the Water Taxi Business... but they wouldn't Fight Fair.
Battles Within, Battles WithoutFred Halliday
The Many Fronts of Khomeini's War
New Mike Shayne Short Novel
Beautiful But DeadBrett Halliday
New Mike Shayne Short Novel
Behind Reagan's Secrets OrderBetty Miller Unterberger
Burying the Diplomatic Record
Benito and FranklinDonald Feder
There were striking parallels between the economic programs of Mussolini and FDR. Were ...
The Best and Worst of The U.S. SenateEleanor Randolph
Wizards, peacocks, sluggards, and other lawmakers.
Best BetsNancy McKeon and Corky Pollan
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The best of BillMost politicians speak and write cautiously to avoid offending anyone. Then there's Sen...
Between the BlocsJon Bloomfield
Europe's third road to peace
Beyond "Birds and Flowers"Tom Chaffin
Environmentalists Are Reaching Out
Beyond "No First Use"Mary Kaldor
What the Peace Movement Really Means
Beyond the Christmas StoryClarence B. Carson
Christ exemplifies the message of freedom.
Biblical Myth and Contemporary ExperienceMichael Brown
The Akedah in Modern Jewish Literature
Big changes in Small ClaimsRick Dower
Higher fees and free legal advice will have major impact this year in the "People's Cou...
Big Little GovernmentsGary McGath
Local governments can also practice tyranny, if out of control.
$50 Billion That Can GoGordon Adams and David Gold
How to Cut the Defense Budget---Now
A $1-Billion-a-day ManeuverWendy Cooper
The Float: How Banks Make Money With Your Money
Billions Down the DrainWilliam Tucker
Why Californians are squandering their most precious resource
The Biosafety ControversyEllen Cantarow
Gene Splicing---Not in Our Town!
Birdbrains in the ParkJohn S. Peterson
A child-care specialist reports on New York City's antinuke festivities
Bird's recall: Will it fly?Robert P. Studer
The chief justice has history on her side as double-barreled efforts to remove her get ...
Articles
Black Market Technology in the U.S.S.R.Leo Timofeev
Or, The Peasants' Art of Starving
Black MusicKalamu Ya Salaam
Out of a Musical Fort Knox
BlackmailGeorge Florance-Guthridge
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, February 1982, pp. 78-84
Politics
Blockbusting, Government-Style.Dennis Cauchon
What raises the rents of low-income people, violates their privacy, and subsidizes larg...
Dialog
Body-Building on the LeftRuth Messinger and Paul Du Brul
Bonn and WashingtonWilliam E. Griffith
From Deterioration to Crisis?
New Mike Shayne Short Novel
Book of the DeadBrett Halliday
New Mike Shayne Short Novel
Mike Shayne's Mystery Magazine, July 1982, pp. 4-39
Departments
The Bottom LineJack Egan
Is It Time to Start Buying Stocks Again?
Discussion
The "Brandt" ControversyPeter Wiles
Is Third World Aid Really Hopeless?
The "Brandt" ControversyPeter Bauer and Basil Yamey
Aid & Its Effects
The "Brandt" ControversyP.D. Henderson
Aid, Inequality, & Planning
A Breakdown of ConsensusMark Greenberg
Problems in the Welfare State
Breaking the Cold War IceE.P. Thompson
East, West---Is There a Third Day?
BrechtMartin Esslin
The Bitter Bread of Exile
BriefingJohn Judis
Campaign Strategies for the'80s
The Brigands and the BargainersErnest G. Ross
The case for trading rather than plundering.
Bring Back the WPATimothy Noah
How we can pay for it--and why we can't afford not to.
Broken WindowsJames Q. Wilson and George L. Kelling
Every neighborhood desperately wants order, but we are reluctant to let the police main...
Brown's ciusading courtK. Connie Kang
The state Supreme Court is more controversial than ever, and not all of its critics fit...
Brown's last budgetEd Salzman
The would-be U.S. senator is seeking fiscal stopgap measures, leaving the tough decisio...
Budgetary ReferendaRoger A. Arnold and Thomas L. Wyrick
An Efficient Alternative to Representative Democracy
Articles
Build a Better Mousetrap...Fred J. Cook
I. A Rejected "Coal Reactor"
Build a Better Mousetrap...Alexander R. Peters
II. A Long-Lost Synfuels Process
Building a MovementBertram Gross and Stanley Moses
Full Employment: Planning from the Bottom Up
Building Up SteamJoel Parker #2 and Dan Biggs
Bureaucracy, Productivity, and InflationMark D. Isaacs
Sound monetary policy determines the effectiveness of economic calculation and producti...
Burying the PicketStephen Schlossberg
A labor leader calls for detente with industry.
Busting AntitrustMichael McMenamin
Antitrust isn't about to be broken up, but the IBM and AT&T settlements signal that the...
Articles
But Will They Come?Frank Donner
The Campaign to Smear the Nuclear Freeze Movement
C.I.A. Agents Never Die...Peter H. Stone
High Times in the "Political Risk" Business
The C.I.A. and Page AirwaysMurray Waas
The Case of the Flying Spies
Calendar for KidsLynn Edelman Schnurnberger
Initiatives
Californians Will Vote on MeasuresThomas Brom and Paul Glickman
California's classroom crisisVic Pollard
Will laumakers increase taxes for public schools while their constituents demand major ...
California's pot experimentMary Kathleen Smith
Red tape has plagued the state's first efforts to aid cancer victims with legal marijuana.
Canada Damaged by Faulty TheoriesKenneth McDonald
Some refreshing new alternatives to the interventions that have plagued Canada.
Canada's Chicken-And-Egg ProblemPaul K. Gorecki
The High Cost of Price and Output Controls
Canada's LeaderLubor J. Zink
The Unpenetrated Problem of Pierre Trudeau
Canada's New ConstitutionEdgar Z. Friedenberg
The Struggle for Human Rights
Other Contributors
Cancer's Uncertainties and Public PolicyWilliam R. Havender and Elizabeth M. Whelan
Capitalism and GreedJames Doti
A personal experience brings home the lesson that self-interest serves other as well.
Capitalism Observed: King of the ChewsElaine F. Weiss
Present at the creation of a forty-cent status symbol
Capitalism Observed: Lawn OrderTimothy F. Bannon
Call in the high-tech horticulturalists, or it's all over for your grass
Capitalism Observed: Make Mine MoinkJim Quinn
The secrets of modern restaurant management
Capitalism Observed: Pinstripes and Lunch PailsStan Luxenberg
Wall Street works for the workers---and isn't earning its keep
Capitalism Observed: Rich Doctors, Poor NursesDavid Osborne
Testing our notions about a fair day's pay
Capitalism Observed: The Board GameTimothy F. Bannon
Why celebrity has-beens make perfect corporate directors
Capitalism Observed: Those Who Can't ConsultDavid Owen
Why do experienced executives pay millions for the advice of young punks?
Capitalism-Hero or Culprit?Ralph Bradford
The origin and blessings of trade.
Capitalists and CommissarsPaige Bryan, Scott Sullivan, and Steve Pastore
Capitol warfareVic Pollard
Reporters and state legislators used to party together; now they resemble two suspiciou...
The Case of ChaseBertha Star
Bankers and Their Codes of Conduct
Cases on FileVincent James
Have You Seen Elma Sands?
Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine, August 1982, pp. 61-66
Cases on FileT.M. McDade
Take the Money and Run---Where?
Castro's RevengeNick Nichols
We sent him Johnny Rosselli. He sent us his killers and thieves.
Ceasefire Between the BranchesWarren Christopher
A Compact in Foreign Affairs
VI. Celebratory Statements
Celebratory StatementsFirst Amendment
Celebrity Censorship.Nat Hentoff
Both Jane Fonda and Susan Sontag bravely used their First Amendment rights to speak out...
Censorship in the West BankMatti Megged
How Democracy Can Be Distorted
A Central American JournalRobert D. Novak
The Novak of Evans and Novak reports adagio con pessimismo from San Salvador, Managua, ...
Champion of the WorldSteve Perry and George Florance-Guthridge
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, August 1982, pp. 49-60
Research Note
Change and Stability in Foreign PolicyKjell Goldmann
Detente as a Problem of Stabilization
Articles
A "Change for the Worse"Jessica Mitford
An Update on the "Prison Business"
The Changing Face of FranceGerard Sandoz
What Has the Miterrand Government Done So Far?
Charge of the seniorsRobert P. Studer
There's strength in voting numbers, as the state's growing ranks of the elderly are lea...
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Chariots of Fire: From Dark Horse to Thoroughbred (Review) Blair Austin
Chariots of Fire (1981 Film), by Hugh Hudson
- Chariots of Fire (1981 Film) by Hugh Hudson
The Saturday Evening Post, July 1982, pp. 18-25
Chemical and Nuclear Waste DisposalJames P. Murray, Joseph J. Harrington, and Richard Wilson, ...
Problems and Solutions
Chicago HighbrowJames Atlas
Growing up in a home that resembled a Bennington dorm
ChickensRoy Blount, Jr.
In appreciation of an underrated bird
The Atlantic Monthly, May 1982, pp. 93-94
Child-Care Tax CreditJill Norgren and Sheila Cole
Heaven Help the Working Mother
Chile's Economic RevolutionClaudia Rosett
An eye-opening, first-hand look at the world's most radical attempt at economic decontrol
Articles
The Chill Is OnTodd Gitlin
The Screening Out of "Lou Grant"
China's Political EvolutionMichel Oksenberg and Richard Bush
1972-82
Choice and ResponsibilityThomas W. Knepher
A call for a resumption of personal responsibility for our choices.
Social Science and the Arts
Christo in Central Park---and in HarlemNathan Glazer
City DeskBarbara J. Heil and Steven J. Brams
Approval Voting: How to Improve DC's Crazy Elections
City DeskSam Smith
Why Barry Deserves Another Term
City Desk: The Quiet RetreatJohn Phelan
Last Fall the Barry Administration Went to Court and Got Home Rule Reduced, Here's How.
City TalkAnd Now, Two Candidates You Haven't Heard from...
City TalkNext Time You Visit Us...
Departments
Cityside: The Parkway All-Stars Come HomeMarty Friedman and Frederick Allen
Garrison State
Civil Disaster.David C. Morrison
Part of Caspar Weinberger's plan to wage a prolonged nuclear war is to shuttle the citi...
The Civil War and Political NationalizationClarence B. Carson
Concerning the extension of federal intervention and control in the aftermath of the ci...
Clash of the titansLillieanne Chase
Environmentalists must wage a two-front war against litter (Proposition 11) and for wat...
The Class War We Can't Afford to LosePhil Keisling
Saving our public schools from the enemy within.
Classics by the PoundHugh Kenner
The Library of America will sit on your bookshelf forever
Closets of PowerTaylor Branch
Dan Bradley became the highest government official yet to announce that he was homosexual
Co-Determination in West GermanyHans F. Sennholz
The power of decision amounts to ownership and control-and may destroy competitive ente...
Coherent Defense StrategyLouis J. Walinsky
The Case for Economic Denial
Coining Soon: The Licensed LobbyistBill Keller
The boys in the backroom seek respectability.
Features
The Collapse of the Reagan RevolutionDoug Bandow
Ronald Reagan rode into Washington on a landslide ready to turn decades of speeches int...
Collectivism in Medicine: An Exception or a Hook?Jane M. Orient, M.D.
A thoughtful diagnosis of the doctor-Patient relationship under alternative systems.
Collision CourseJohn Doherty
The next time two planes collide in midair, it could be because the FAA shot down a pri...
Color on the CourtJerome Karabel and David Karen