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    2. At Issue, pp. 4-7
    3. The Idiocy of Race by Ivan Hannaford, pp. 8-35
    4. Why Wright Endures by Witold Rybczynski, pp. 36-45
    5. Questioning the Leadership, p. 46
    6. What's Wrong with American Political Leadership? by Alan Brinkley, pp. 47-54
    7. Do We Overstate the Importance of Leadership? by Alan Ryan, pp. 55-64
    8. Can Leadership Be Studied? by Jacob Heilbrunn, pp. 65-72
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      1. Exit Into History by Eva Hoffman
      2. The Birth of Freedom by Andrew Nagorski
      3. The Walls Came Tumbling Down by Gale Stokes
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        A Rebel in Defense of Tradition by Michael Wreszin
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        The Birth of Fascist Ideology by Zeev Sternhell, Mario Szajder, and Maia Asheri
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        The Bauhaus by Frank Whitford
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        The Intellectuals and the Masses by John Carey
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        Selling God by R. Laurence Moore
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        Bertrand Russell: A Life by Caroline Moorehead
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        Blasphemy by Leonard W. Levy
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        There's No Such Thing As Free Speech... by Stanley Fish
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        Silent Travelers by Alan M. Kraut
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        Uncommon Sense by Alan Cromer
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        The Astonishing Hypothesis by Francis Crick
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    17. Poems by John Crowe Ransom, pp. 94-98
    18. How to Avoid Date Rape by Nelson W. Aldrich, Jr., pp. 99-108
    19. Mere Lewis by James Como, pp. 109-118
    20. Periodicals, pp. 119-143
    21. Researdch Reports, pp. 144-145
    22. Commentary, pp. 146-151
    23. From the Center by Charles Blitzer, pp. 152-154
    24. Cover: Detail of a first-century Roman fresco
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    Summer 1994 Issue = 30 Articles
    1. Editor's Comment, pp. 2-3
    2. At Issue, pp. 4-7
    3. Wired for What?, p. 8
    4. In Search of the Cybermarket by Douglas Gomery, pp. 9-17
    5. Learning from the Net by Edward Tenner, pp. 18-28
    6. The Cultural Consequences of the Information Superhighway by Tom Maddox, pp. 29-39
    7. Hamilton's Legacy by Michael Lind, pp. 40-53
    8. The Population Question Revisited by George Moffett, pp. 54-79
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      How to Make History by James Morris, pp. 80-81 - 1 Review
      1. Telling the Truth About History by Joyce Appleby, Lynn Hunt, and Margaret C. Jacob
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      The Masculine Mystique by Jean Bethke Elshtain, pp. 82-84 - 2 Reviews
      1. The Trouble with Boys by Angela Phillips
      2. What Men Want by John Munder Ross
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      Reading Cultural Studies by Mark Edmundson, pp. 85-88 - 1 Review
      1. The Cultural Studies Reader by Simon During
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      History (3 Reviews)
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        Double Lives by Stephen Koch
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        To Keep and Bear Arms by Joyce Lee Malcolm
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        A Rage to Punish by Lois G. Forer
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        The Green Crusade by Charles T. Rubin
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        The Wages of Guilt by Ian Buruma
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    18. Language on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown by Anatoly Naiman, pp. 108-117
    19. A Doubter's Dictionary by John Ralston Saul, pp. 118-124
    20. Periodicals, pp. 125-151
    21. Research Reports, pp. 152-153
    22. Commentary, pp. 154-159
    23. From the Center by Charles Blitzer, pp. 160-162
    24. Cover: Detail of Fin de Siecle by Nam June Paik
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    1. Editor's Comment, pp. 2-3
    2. At Issue, pp. 4-7
    3. Pain's Dominion by David B. Morris, pp. 8-19
    4. Pain and America's Culture of Death by Kathleen M. Foley, pp. 20-27
    5. The Language of Pain by Richard Selzer, pp. 28-33
    6. Oppenheimer Investigated by Robert Erwin, pp. 34-45
    7. The Great American Job Hunt by Paul Osterman, pp. 46-55
    8. Technology's Revenge by Paul Krugman, pp. 56-64
    9. The Immigrant Challenge by Thomas Muller, pp. 65-71
    10. The Virtual Job by Laura L. Nash, pp. 72-81
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      3. Civil Wars: From L.A. to Bosnia by Hans Magnus Enzensberger
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      1. Dictatorship of Virtue by Richard Bernstein
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        A Better Place to Live by Philip Langdon
        The New Urbanism by Peter Katz
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        Race and Culture: A World View by Thomas Sowell
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        The Art of the Personal Essay by Phillip Lopate
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        Camp Grounds by David Bergman
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        The Old Moderns by Denis Donoghue
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        The King of Inventors by Catherine Peters
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        The American Presidency by Forrest McDonald
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        The Soviet Tragedy by Martin E. Malia
        Imperium by Ryszard Kapuscinski
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        The Mass-Extinction Debates by William Glen#2
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    20. Poems by Evgeny Rein, pp. 102-105
    21. The Strange Birth of Liberal France by Mark Lilla, pp. 106-120
    22. Periodicals, pp. 121-147
    23. Research Reports, pp. 148-149
    24. Commentary, pp. 150-156
    25. Biennial Index, pp. 157-159
    26. From the Center by Charles Blitzer, pp. 160-162
    27. Cover: Anguish (1989) by George Dergalis
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    1. Editor's Comment, pp. 4-7
    2. At Issue, pp. 8-9
    3. The Lost Promise of the American Railroad by Mark Reutter, pp. 10-37
    4. Churchill the Writer by James W. Muller, pp. 38-49
    5. The Rise of Europe's Little Nations by Alastair Reid, pp. 50-58
    6. The Transylvania Tangle by William McPherson, pp. 59-69
    7. A Country in Spain by David T. Gies, pp. 70-76
    8. A Legacy of Empire by G.M. Tamas, pp. 77-81
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      1. Land of Desire by William R. Leach
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      1. Deep Politics And The Death of JFK by Peter Dale Scott
      2. Case Closed by Gerald Posner
      3. Who Shot JFK? by Bob Callahan
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        A History of God by Karen Armstrong
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        The Age of Federalism by Stanley Elkins and Eric McKitrick
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        American Political Cultures by Richard J. Ellis
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        The Beginning of the Journey by Diana Trilling
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        Mark Morris by Joan Acocella
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        William Faulkner and Southern History by Joel Williamson
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        White House Daze by Charles Kolb
        Hell of a Ride by John Podhoretz
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        The Fate of Hong Kong by Gerald Segal
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        In Europe's Name by Timothy Garton Ash
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        At the Hand of Man by Raymond Bonner
        The Last Panda by George B. Schaller
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        Nuclear Renewal by Richard Rhodes
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        Science and Anti-Science by Gerald Holton
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    16. Poems by Peter Huchel, pp. 102-107
    17. Lifestyle by Robert Erwin, pp. 108-115
    18. The Critic as Novelist by Michael Levenson, pp. 116-124
    19. Periodicals, pp. 125-151
    20. Research Reports, pp. 152-153
    21. Commentary, pp. 154-159
    22. From the Center by Charles Blitzer, pp. 160-162
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