Fall 1992

Comments and Opinions
The Election: Impending Realignment?
The Supreme Court and Abortion
A Landmark Decision
Who Are the Real Looters?
The Fiasco at Rio
Italy: The Politics of Disintegration
Reports from Abroad
After the Israeli Elections: “The Rabin Era”?
Tattered Velvet: A Country Falls Apart
Articles
An Economy in Deep Trouble: Proposals for Improvement
The Conflict at Caterpillar: The UAW in the “Post-Strike” Era
On Politics and Trust: A Growing Problem of Modern Life
The War Against The Poor: Instead of Programs to End Poverty
Scenarios for Possible Lefts: Where Can We Go?
Is Egalitarianism Dead?: A Problem for Socialists—and Others too
Rooted Cosmopolitanism: Thoughts on the Left, Nationalism, and Multiculturalism
Latin America: Still in Trouble
After the Communist Collapse: New Political Tendencies in Russia
In the Years of Perestroika: Workers’ Actions, Workers’ Politics in the USSR
Marx and Market Socialism
Communications
Tribalism and the State: A Reply to Michael Walzer
Tribalism and the State: Michael Walzer Replies
Culture Notes
Is it the Shoes?
Jews and Blacks in Hollywood
Books
The Inimitable GBS
A Brilliant Marxist
Stand By Your Woman
Orwell Among the Academics
Before I’ll Be a Slave
Future of the Welfare State
The Poverty Debate
Left Paternalism
In Memoriam
Joseph Buttinger 1906-1992