Spring 1989

Comments and Opinions
The First 35 Years Were the Hardest
Merger Mania and Economic Decline
The End of Jeane Kirkpatrick’s Ideology
Report from Abroad
Sweden, Not Yet Paradise, But…
Articles
Toward a New Socialism: Beyond the Limits of the Present
The Third Technological Revolution and Its Possible Socioeconomic Consequences
The Critic in Exile: Breyten Breytenbach & South Africa
The Death Throes of Western Communism: A Major Event in Recent European History
The Waning of the Cold War: A Turning Point in Modern History?
Education Without Dogma: Truth, Freedom, & Our Universities
Pages from a Gender Diary: Basic Divisions in Feminism
Slouching Toward Pluralism: An End to “The American Century”?
Turning Point in Hungary: A Voice from the Democratic Opposition
The New History & its Critics: A Look at Gertrude Himmelfarb’s Complaint
Twenty Years Later: 1968 and the West German Republic
Notebook
Morning in Privatopia
Nuclear Civil War
Communications
The Constitution, Taste, and “Violence of Factions”
What Should We Be Teaching?
Culture Notes
Violence for Fun and Profit
Books
New Thinking About Poverty
Deconstructing History
Some Truth About Our Economy
Myths of Election
Reconstruction Reconsidered
In Memoriam
Joseph Clark
Robert Lekachman