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December 1998 Issue
- 47 Articles
Editorials
The Two Faces of Bill Clinton
Virginia Postrel
, pp. 4-5
Bombs
Nick Gillespie
, pp. 6-7
Letters
, pp. 8-11
Citings
Baby Food Fight
Jason Brooks
, p. 12
Instant Gratification
Ryan H. Sager
, p. 12
Balance Sheet
Rick Henderson
, p. 12
Political Prurience
Michael W. Lynch
, p. 12
Cyberspace March
Rick Henderson
, p. 13
Transit Troubles
Samuel Staley
, p. 14
Power Addicts
Michael W. Lynch
, p. 14
His Cartesian Way
Charles Paul Freund
, p. 15
Trapping Copycats
Mariel Garza
, p. 15
Eggheads
Michael W. Lynch
, p. 16
Paranoid Report
Michael W. Lynch
, p. 17
Numbers on America's Newcomers
Michael W. Lynch
, p. 17
Numbers Game
Michael W. Lynch
, pp. 18-19
Capital Letters
Theaters of Operation
Michael W. Lynch
, pp. 20-25
In which our man in Washington Encounters show Business, Beltway-Style, Rides Uncomfort...
Voices of Reason
, pp. 26-37
Thirty Years of Interviews
When Property Is Theft
Why Russia's Market Reform Failed--and What to do About it.
Edwin G. Dolan
, pp. 38-45
[+]
3 Reviews
The End of the Nation-State, by Jean-Marie Gue...
(3 Reviews)
Walter Truett Anderson
, p. 46
The End of the Nation-State
by Jean-Marie Guehenno
The Turning Point
by Fritjof Capra
Merged Evolution
by Susantha Goonatilake
[+]
2 Reviews
The Population Bomb, by Paul R. Ehrlich
(2 Reviews)
Ronald Bailey
, p. 47
The Population Bomb
by Paul R. Ehrlich
The Coming Boom
by Herman Kahn
[+]
3 Reviews
The Limits to Growth, by Donella H. Meadows, D...
(3 Reviews)
Gregory Benford
, p. 48
The Limits to Growth
by Donella H. Meadows, Dennis L. Meadows, and Jorgen Randers, ...
The World, the Flesh and the Devil
by J.D. Bernal
Imagined Worlds
by Freeman Dyson
[+]
2 Reviews
The Prospect of Immortality, by Robert C.W. Et...
(2 Reviews)
K. Eric Drexler
, p. 49
The Prospect of Immortality
by Robert C.W. Ettinger
Entropy
by Jeremy Rifkin and Ted Howard
[+]
3 Reviews
Four Arguments for the Elimination of Televisi...
(3 Reviews)
Charles Paul Freund
, p. 49
Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television
by Jerry Mander
Carnival Culture
by James B. Twitchell
Life on the Screen
by Sherry Turkle
[+]
2 Reviews
The Population Bomb, by Paul R. Ehrlich
(2 Reviews)
Michael Fumento
, p. 50
The Population Bomb
by Paul R. Ehrlich
Twenty-First-Century Miracle Medicine
by Alexandra Wyke
[+]
2 Reviews
The Technological Society, by Jacques Ellul
(2 Reviews)
Steven Hayward
, p. 51
The Technological Society
by Jacques Ellul
The End of History and the Last Man
by Francis Fukuyama
[+]
2 Reviews
The Other America, by Michael Harrington
(2 Reviews)
Charles Murray
, p. 51
The Other America
by Michael Harrington
Consilience
by Edward O. Wilson
[+]
3 Reviews
Economics, by Paul A. Samuelson
(3 Reviews)
John V.C. Nye
, p. 52
Economics
by Paul A. Samuelson
The Rise of the Western World
by Douglass C. North and Robert Paul Thomas
Mercantilism
by Eli F. Heckscher
[+]
Review
The New Industrial State, by John Kenneth Galb...
(Review)
Walter Olson
, p. 53
The New Industrial State
by John Kenneth Galbraith
[+]
3 Reviews
The Death and Life of Great American Cities, b...
(3 Reviews)
Randal O'Toole
, p. 53
The Death and Life of Great American Cities
by Jane Jacobs
Road to Ruin
by A.Q. Mowbray
Edge City
by Joel Garreau
[+]
2 Reviews
The Emerging Republican Majority, by Kevin P. ...
(2 Reviews)
John J. Pitney, Jr.
, p. 54
The Emerging Republican Majority
by Kevin P. Phillips
The Greening of America
by Charles A. Reich
[+]
2 Reviews
The Age of Discontinuity, by Peter F. Drucker
(2 Reviews)
Robert W. Poole, Jr
, p. 54
The Age of Discontinuity
by Peter F. Drucker
The Commanding Heights
by Daniel Yergin and Joseph Stanislaw
[+]
2 Reviews
The Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism, by ...
(2 Reviews)
Virginia Postrel
, p. 55
The Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism
by Daniel Bell
The Soul of a New Machine
by Tracy Kidder
[+]
2 Reviews
Technologies of Freedom, by Ithiel de Sola Pool
(2 Reviews)
Adam Clayton Powell III#2
, p. 56
Technologies of Freedom
by Ithiel de Sola Pool
Winchell
by Neal Gabler
[+]
Review
Love in the Ruins, by Walker Percy
(Review)
John Shelton Reed
, p. 56
Love in the Ruins
by Walker Percy
[+]
2 Reviews
The Death and Life of Great American Cities, b...
(2 Reviews)
Lynn Scarlett
, p. 57
The Death and Life of Great American Cities
by Jane Jacobs
Order Without Law
by Robert C. Ellickson
Special Book Section
[+]
California Dreaming
(2 Reviews)
Nick Gillespie
, pp. 58-61
Paradise Lost, by Peter Schrag
Paradise Lost
by Peter Schrag
From West to East
by Stephen Schwartz
[+]
What's Left?
(3 Reviews)
Alan Charles Kors
, pp. 62-65
Liberalism and Its Discontents, by Alan Brinkley
Liberalism and Its Discontents
by Alan Brinkley
The Dark Side of the Left
by Richard J. Ellis
Achieving Our Country
by Richard Rorty
[+]
Rebirth of Cool Cal
(3 Reviews)
John J. Miller
, pp. 66-69
Coolidge: An American Enigma, by Robert Sobel
Coolidge: An American Enigma
by Robert Sobel
The Presidency of Calvin Coolidge
by Robert H. Ferrell
Star-Spangled Men
by Nathan Miller
[+]
Secrets of Success
(2 Reviews)
Joel Mokyr
, pp. 70-75
Conquests and Cultures, by Thomas Sowell
Conquests and Cultures
by Thomas Sowell
Guns, Germs, and Steel
by Jared Diamond
Columns
Piling on the Prez
Loren Lomasky
, pp. 76-78
Let Clinton be Clinton!
How FEMA Fought the Future
Jodie T. Allen
, pp. 79-80
Confessions of an Emergency 'Planner'
Test Anxiety
Michael Fumento
, pp. 81-83
Why are Environmentalists Afraid of Pesticide Research?
Gaseous Menace
Kenneth Silber
, pp. 84-85
The Overblown Regulatory Anxiety Over Radon
Reasonable Doubts
Dial 'O' for Outrage
Walter Olson
, pp. 86-89
Tales from The Excuse Factory's Cutting-Room Floor
Selected Skirmishes
Hope Springs Paternal
Thomas W. Hazlett
, pp. 90-92
What Medical Reporters Think Inquiring Minds Don't Need to Know
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Andrea Baruffi
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