Spring 1990

Comments and Opinions
Soviet Transformation
George Bush and “The Vision Thing”
A Peace Dividend for the US Economy
On Education Spending and Capital Gains
Political Changes After the Cold War
And Just Why Did We Invade Panama?
Reports from Abroad
Reform and Conflict in Yugoslavia
El Salvador: No Peace in Sight
Democratic Stirrings in Bulgaria
Special Section: The European Revolutions
A Credo for this Moment
Creating a New-Old Europe
As We Go into the Nineties
The Triumph of Capitalism?
The Intellectuals of Soviet Reform
From the Dustbin of History
On the Fate of Communism
Chance Wanderings
Socialist Voices in the Soviet Union
Can There Be a Central Europe?
“Literary” Ugliness in Russia
What Does the Left Have to Offer?
Poland Takes the Plunge
Happiness in Czechoslovakia
In Romania: Between Euphoria and Rage
Social Reality and “Free Markets”
One or Two Cheers for “The Invisible Hand”
Solidarity in Virginia
China Since the Square
Business in American Politics
Communications
On the Canon
David Bromwich Replies
Notebook
Gus Hall Collides with Reality
Is There a Fish in this Class?
Remembering H.L. Mitchell
Does the Soviet Union Exist?
Culture Notes
Gorgeous George
Film
When G.M. Wrecked Flint
Books
Conflicts in a Progressive Union
Learning How to Teach
A Parade of Prejudices
Pynchon’s America
Trenchant and Turgid
In Memoriam
Edith H. Tarcov 1919-1990
Hal Draper