A.T.&T. and Fiber OpticsSidney W. Dean Jr. and Robert Lewis Shayon
Grabbing and Electronic Bonanza
Abernathy, King and the LeftPeter Marin
On the Humanity of Saints
Abortion and politicsSteven Pressman
A U.S. Supreme Court decision has thrown the controversy over abortion back to the stat...
Abortion politicsDan Smith
Republicans battled Republicans in a special election to replace the late GOP Assemblym...
Abortion: Law & PoliticsJack Fowler
The War Within the States
Abortive IssueFred Barnes
Is there pro-life after Webster? The Republicans are beginning to wonder
Abraham's Other ChildrenDouglas E. Streusand
Is Islam an Enemy of the West?
The Abuse of Probability in Political AnalysisGeorge Tsebelis
The Robinson Crusoe Fallacy
American Political Science Review, March 1989, pp. 77-92
The Gospel Reconsidered
Act II, Winning an ElectionNicholas Lemann
Getting our act together and taking it on the road.
In the Arts
Ad NauseamRichard Mahler
Whittle-ing Away of the State of Young Minds
Adam Smith's Welfare StateAdam Meyerson
Generous Government Is Consistent with a Market Economy
Adios, General!Micah Morrison
Our new roving correspondent travels to Chile and reports on its return to democracy no...
The American Spectator, May 1989, pp. 16-20
Affirmative Action: a Counterproductive PolicyErnest Pasour
Quality suffers when quotas replace merit.
Affirmative InactionGary L. McDowell
The Brock-Meese Standoff on Federal Racial Quotas
In These Times
Affirming InactionSalim Muwakkil
Court Just Says No to U.S. History
Afghanistan's Slide Toward Civil WarJames Rupert
U.S. Policy and the Mujaheddin
African StarsChris Granlund
Interview with Doris Lessing
Articles
After Bush's A.C.L.U. SmearJames Ledbetter
New Members, New Problems
After BusingDavid J. Armor
Education and School Choice
After CatholicismDavid Martin
Speaking in Latin Tongues
After RoseRichard John Neuhaus and John Wauck
After the RevolutionsThe Editors
The political faiths of 1914 collapsed beneath the weight of their own unanticipated co...
After the WallThe Editors
The American Century was fun while it lasted
Aftermaths of EmpireHugh Trevor-Roper and George Urban
AftershocksBill Bradley
Will the quake bring back activists government in California?
Against the Creation of Wealth: The Threatening TideArthur Shenfield
Forces that threaten to undermine the production of wealth.
The Age of VulnerabilityH.W. Brands
Eisenhower and the National Insecurity State
Aggadah and Anti-SemitismJoshua Berman
The Midrashim to Esther 3:8
AIDS and HomelessnessSarah Schulman
Thousands May Die in the Streets
Articles
AIDS as ApocalypseDarrell Yates Rist
The Deadly Costs of an Obsession
AIDS as Human SufferingPaul Farmer and Arthur Kleinman, M.D.
AIDS in Africa: Diversity in the Global PandemicBarbara O. de Zalduondo and Gernard Iddi Msamanga, ...
AIDS in the United StatesAran Ron, M.D. and David E. Rogers, M.D.
Patient Care and Politics
AIDS: The Challenge to Biomedical ResearchMargaret A. Hamburg, M.D. and Anthony S. Fauci, M.D., ...
Air SicknessHenry Fairlie
Welcome to the Frank Lorenzo school of airline management
Airport '89Elaine Buckberg
Your $34 million gift to H. Ross Perot
Alaska Over the BarrelsJohn Greely
The Spills and Spoils of Big Oil
The Alcoholism ControversyWilliam Madsen and Herbert Fingarette
"All in Some Degree Related to Each Other"Daniel Scott Smith
A Demographic and Comparative Resolution of the Anomaly of New England Kinship
Al's PalsMark Green
Senator D'Amato's role in the HUD scandal turns out to be just one node in a vast netwo...
Ambivalence at the TopJames Duram
California Congressman Charles Gubser and Federal Aid for Classroom Construction during...
The Ambivalent LegacyVicki Caron
The Impact of Enlightenment and Emancipation on Zionism
America in the World EconomyBarry P. Bosworth and Robert Z. Lawrence
The United States May No Longer Be the Colossus of the World Economy, But It is Still t...
"American Exceptionalism" RevisitedDaniel Bell
The Role of Civil Society
America's PurposeCharles Krauthammer and Nathan Tarcov
A Series
America's Rising SunJoel Kotkin
The doomsayers ignore unique strengths that could spark a resurgence in our third centu...
Among the EducationaloidsChester E. Finn, Jr.
The Science of Bad Science
Among the IntellectualoidsDavid Evanier and Harvey Klehr
Anticommunism and Mental Health
Anarchism and the Public Goods IssueDavid Osterfeld
Law, Courts, and the Police
The Journal of Libertarian Studies, Winter 1989, pp. 47-68
Annals of DiplomacyJohn Newhouse
(Reagan and the Nuclear Age---Part I)
Annals of DiplomacyJohn Newhouse
(Reagan and the Nuclear Age---Part II)
Historical News and Comment
Anne Frank's HandwritingThe Journal of Historical Review, March 1989, pp. 97-100
AnnotationAnton Shammas
Arafat's Types of Ambiguity
AnnotationPolice Chief Joseph D. McNamara
A Nation of Certified Killers
The Harpers Monthly, May 1989, pp. 58-59
AnnotationMurray Waas
The Sum of Their Possessions
Annual ReportsJeremiah Creedon
Storied Histories and Sorted Tales
The Exercise of Leadership
Answering the Demo-Doomsayers: Five Myths About America's Demographic FutureRoger Conner
Challenges for the Futurists Who Predict That a Coming Population Decline Will Have Det...
Answering 'The German Question'James Chace
Reunification has switched categories overnight from the almost unthinkable to the argu...
The Anti-African ProtestsRaymond Seidelman
More Than Just Chinese Racism
Antiapartheid ProtestsPippa Green
New Wave of Defiance in South Africa
Antitrust and InsuranceD.T. Armentano
Should the McCarran Act Be Repealed?
Antitrust ReformDominick T. Armentano
Predatory Practices and the Competitive Process
The Review of Austrian Economics, Spring 1989, pp. 61-74
Apocalypse ThenRobert Sam Anson
Like any good journalist, Time's Robert Sam Anson decided to get out of the office. But...
Appropriate TechnologyGeorge Ovitt, Jr.
Development and Social Change
Are the Contras Finished?Elliott Abrams and Mark Cunningham
Argentina at the CrossroadsRichard A. Cooper
A return to classical liberalism or venturing further down the road to serfdom?
Argentina Drifts Toward DisasterAmbrose Evans-Pritchard
Our correspondent reports on the wages of Peronism's economic sins-and expects little r...
Argentina's TurmoilMartin Edwin Andersen
Dirty Secrets of the "Dirty War"
Articles
An Armenian JournalMichael Arlen
Faucet Sales and Crush Syndrome
Arms and the ManE. Christian Kopff
Clint Eastwood as hero and filmmaker
Around the StatesJohn A. Barnes
Michigan: Preempting Local Rent Control
Art AgnosSusan Yoachum
The October 17th earthquake did more than shake up San Francisco; it propelled the city...
The Art of DifferenceHannah Vowles and Glyn Banks
Rasheed Araeen
The Artificial Inflation of Natural RightsAntony Flew
Option rights and welfare rights.
As the World TurnsRobert B. Reich
The global economy has divided the U.S. workforce sharply into winners and losers
Ashes & DiamondsAlexander Cockburn
The Vote and the Accord: Old Piss in New Bottles
Articles
Asian Aladdin's CaveDenis MacShane
Dreaming of the Forty-Hour Week
Aside from That Sam How Did You Like the Speech?If today's White House press corps had covered the Gettysburg Address...
Atwatergate"T.R.B."
Let's all have a good wallow
Articles
The Austerity AgendaDoug Henwood
Have We Really Been Bingeing?
Axis, Ltd.Murray Sayle
Why Japan and Germany are winning the battle after losing the war
C
Aztec C and the ANSI C Standard DelayedRex Jaeschke
Rex reports on the delays in getting out the ANSI C standard, along with a look at Manx...
The B.L.S. Numbers GameWilliam Serrin
Playing Down Unemployment
Back to the futureJulie Miller
Half a century ago, Californians traveled mostly by rail. And with traffic congestion r...
Backing into the FutureJeff Reid
Pop's the Question in the Decade That Wasn't
Bad Boy FloydSteve Swatt
Hawthorne Democrat Dick Floyd bring his own brand of lawmaking to the California Assembly.
Bad CopFred Barnes
It's John Dingell, public investigator. Dum da dum dum
In Short
Bad-Mouthing Mother Russia's TongueHubert Devonish and Nan Elsasser
Ballot BlocksRobert Kagan
Impediments to fair elections in Nicaragua won't go away without a little help from its...
A Banana Republic BaedekerWilliam McGurn
If you're traveling to the Third World, don't leave home without it. Or better yet, don...
The Bankruptcy RefugeRuth Shereff
How to Reward the Criminals
The Baptized Rabbi of RomeWallace P. Sillanpoa and Robert G. Weisbord
The Zolli Case
Bargaining in LegislaturesDavid P. Baron and John A. Ferejohn
Base closuresSteve Pressman
When Congress released its list of military installations to be closed, California took...
Basic Rights and Meta-RightsWilliam B. Irvine
Waiving and transferring our basic rights.
Basket CaseJames J. Cramer
As Wall Street's latest mini-crash shows, futures have brought back the past, complete ...
The Battered ChildThe Editors
What the government can and can't do about child abuse
The Beauty of Municipal BondsJoe Mysak
In fact, they're so attractive that Congress is now thinking about doing them in throug...
Being Black and Feeling BlueShelby Steele
Black Hesitation on the Brink
Beltway BanditsDavid Corn and Jefferson Morley
Beltway BanditsDavid Corn and Jefferson Morley
Beltway BanditsDavid Corn and Jefferson Morley
Beltway BanditsDavid Corn and Jefferson Morley
Beltway BanditsDavid Corn and Jefferson Morley
Beltway BanditsDavid Corn and Jefferson Morley
Beltway BanditsDavid Corn and Jefferson Morley
Beltway BanditsDavid Corn and Jefferson Morley
Beltway BanditsDavid Corn and Jefferson Morley
Beltway BanditsDavid Corn and Jefferson Morley
Beltway BanditsDavid Corn and Jefferson Morley
Beltway BanditsDavid Corn and Jefferson Morley
Beltway BanditsDavid Corn and Jefferson Morley
Beltway BanditsDavid Corn and Jefferson Morley
Columns
Beltway BanditsDavid Corn and Jefferson Morley
Beltway BanditsDavid Corn and Jefferson Morley
Bennett the Drug Czar: An AgendaFred Barnes
But he will need George Bush's doughty support to implement it.
Bennett's Lore on DrugsMike Tidwell
The Myth of 'Lock' Em up and Throw Away the Keys'
The Best Japanese Science Fiction Stories (1989)John L. Apostolou and Martin Harry Greenberg
1 Review
Better C++ Code GenerationJohn M. Dlugosz
A close look at the code generated by C++ translators and compilers and how it could be...
Beverly Hills HUDTimothy Noah
How to get a HUD grant without ruining the neighborhood
Health Care
Beware of BargainsMichael Walker
In the absence of market-set prices, waiting lists have emerged as a means of allocatin...
Beware the Pork-HawkRobert Higgs
In Pursuit of Reelection, Congress Sells Out the Nation's Defense.
America and the World 1989/90
Beyond the Cold WarJeane J. Kirkpatrick
Beyond the Legal RightWhy liberals and feminists don't like to talk about the morality of abortion.
Beyond Willie HortonRichard B. Abell
The Battle of the Prison Bulge
The Big FixJames Ring Adams
The Savings and Loan Crisis has become the nation's biggest economic problem and-thanks...
The big gorillaGreg Lucas
California's two public pension funds-PERS and STRS-wield an enormous amount of clout i...
Big Man on CampusFred Barnes
George Bush hits the college lecture circuit
Bill of HealthThe Editors
The hard-nosed case for socialized medicine
A Billion Here, a Billion ThereRon Haskins and Rep. Hank Brown
Social Spending under Ronald Reagan
A Billion Points of LightRoger A. Brooks and Andrew B. Brick
Reassessing Policy Toward China
A Billion-Dollar StoryRichard Pollak
The Trial of Donald and Si Newhouse
BingoMichael Doyle
Bingo on California's Indian reservations is big business, and big business often attra...
California Journal, May 1989, pp. 211-216
"Bird-Cage Socialism"?Peter Kwong and Dusanka Miscevic
China Gropes Toward a Way Out
Articles
Birth of a Bad IdeaSusan LaCroix
Jailing Mothers for Drug Abuse
Bitter HarvestKarl Zinsmeister
Farmers pay a high price for government subsidies
Black AmericaSalim Muwakkil
Looking for a New Consensus
Black Leadership GapSusan Anderson
Eyes on the Prizes, Not the People
Blackboard JungleBen Wildavsky
The Collapse of Discipline Is Public School Enemy No.1
Blacks Challenge the I.A.F.F.Paul Rockwell
Fighting the Fires of Racism
BlackstabbersRichard Blow
How do ruthless white capitalists win black political support? First, they stop by Budg...
Bloc That TradeRobert Kuttner
The emerging world of giant trading blocs has free traders grumbling, but they always w...
Blockading OurselvesCecil E. Bohanon and T. Norman Van Cott
What the blockade of confederate ports teaches about protectionism.
Blood BrothersRobert F. Haddad
With peacekeepers like the Syrians, the Lebanese don't need enemies
In Short
Blood MoneyDavid Bates
Assassin Says He Slit Throats While U.S. Wrote Checks
The Board of EqualizationGale Cook
Once a sleepy backwater, the State Board of Equalization is now a beehive of political ...
Book reviewCharles Price reviews two books on California's initiative process.
BookendsRoy Furchgott
There isn't much difference these days between advertising executives and political con...
Books for ChristmasIt's that time of year again, as eminent readers and writers recommend tomes-some old, ...
Borderline CasesMorton M. Kondracke
How many immigrants should we let in, and what kind?
Borders and QuotasPeter Skerry
Immigration and the Affirmative-Action State
Born to be MildTimothy Noah
He's influential, informed, and responsible. But do you really want Sam Nunn to be pres...
Bradley's beat goes onJohn Schwada
With his most formidable potential opponent out of the race, Los Angeles Mayo. Tom Brad...
The Brandeis PapersE.L. Doctorow
"A Gangsterdom of the Spirit"
Brat Pack IIAlex Heard
It seems like days-or is it weeks?-since the original literary Brat Pack of Jay McInern...
The Brazzaville ProtocolGwin Lister and Mark Verbaan
Peace at Last in Namibia?
Britain's ShameMichael Elliott
The abandonment of Hong Kong is a suitably sordid end to the British empire
The British Way of Withholding CareHarry Schwartz
Rationing medical care to save money.
Broadest BluesAlice Rawsthorn
Interview with Jeremy Isaacs
Btrieve for C ProgrammersAmrit Khalsa and Pete Maclean
A clean C interface to the Btrieve file manager
Buchenwald's Second LifeGeorge Watson
The Soviets did not close this concentration camp
Budget Balancing ActJohn J. Pitney, Jr
Would a Constitutional Convention Undo Everything ...or Accomplish Nothing?
The budget dealStan Draenos and Richard Zeiger
Finishing off the 1989-90 state budget took a lot of negotiating between old enemies, p...
Views
The Bull's-Eye of DisasterJames Bond Stockdale
Why we cannot put Vietnam behind us
AHR Forum: The Old History and the New
The Bureaucratization of HistoryTheodore S. Hamerow
The American Historical Review, June 1989, pp. 654-660
Bush Administration on Arms ControlJim Wurst
"Vision Thing" Is Nowhere to Be Found
BusinessRobert W. Poole, Jr
The Incredible Bond Machine
The Business of AmericaIrwin M. Stelzer
Save US from the Reregulators
The Business of AmericaIrwin M. Stelzer
Corporatism Ousts Reaganomics
The American Spectator, May 1989, pp. 31-33
Articles
The C.I.A. ExplosiveDavid Corn
Did It Blow Up Flight 103?
California Diarist: Rich But DumbTimothy Noah
If Beverly Hills proves anything, it's that having too much money is no picnic