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April 1996 Issue
- 22 Articles
Departments
Letters
, pp. 2-3
Tilting at Windmills
Charles Peters
, pp. 4-7
Patty's Revenge... Pushing the Polls ... Blowing the Whistle... and Paying the Price......
Steve Forbes, Joe Camel, and the ACLU
Joshua Wolf Shenk
, pp. 8-12
Government isn't the only threat to our civil liberties. So is the power of money.
The Art of Flattery
Lucy Komisar
, pp. 13-14
Letters from a CIA director to a president.
Tidbits and Outrages
, p. 15
Reinventing American Capitalism
Reinventing the Corporation
Jonathan Rowe
, pp. 16-23
The public gives corporations their right to exist and asks very little in return. It d...
The Big Job Boosters That Everyone's Missing
Amy Waldman
, pp. 24-27
What Buchanan, Reich, Forbes, and Kennedy don't understand about how to create greater ...
Why Higher Taxes (on the Wealthy) Won't Slow Growth
Wallace C. Peterson
, pp. 28-30
The proof is in the history.
Departments
Memo of the Month
, p. 31
An End to the Free Lunch?
Alice Love
, pp. 32-33
Not quite. That lobbying reform passed by Congress last year turns out to have more hol...
Who's Who
, pp. 34-35
Is the President a Waffler?
Jeremy Paul
, pp. 36-39
In some cases, yes. But part of the reason is that he shuns the easy answers of both ri...
Monthly Journalism Award
, pp. 40-41
Reclaiming Our Cities, Block by Block
Julian E. Barnes
, pp. 42-44
How a Little Rock program offers hope for countering urban decay.
On Political Books
[+]
In Defense of a Defense of Government
(Review)
Jon Meacham
, pp. 45-47
A proposal for smart, activist public institutions and the question: How do we get ther...
In Defense of Government
by Jacob Weisberg
[+]
Milosevic's Wars
(2 Reviews)
Charles Lane
, pp. 48-51
The canard about the Balkan conflict is that it springs from deep, ethnic hatred. In fa...
Yugoslavia: Death of a Nation
by Laura Silber and Allan Little
Love Thy Neighbor
by Peter Maass
[+]
Constitutional Buchananism
(Review)
Lloyd Cutler
, pp. 52-53
Daniel Lazare sees a mess, and proposes absolute majority rule as a way to clean it up.
The Frozen Republic
by Daniel Lazare
[+]
Political Booknotes
(4 Reviews)
, p. 54
[+]
Review
Character Above All, by Robert A. Wilson
(Review)
Martin Walker
, p. 54
Character Above All
by Robert A. Wilson
[+]
Review
Integrity, by Stephen L. Carter
(Review)
David Linker
, p. 55
Integrity
by Stephen L. Carter
[+]
Review
Above the Law, by David Burnham
(Review)
Ronald Goldfarb
, pp. 56-58
Above the Law
by David Burnham
[+]
Review
Closed Doors, Opportunities Lost, by John Yinger
(Review)
Dante Ramos
, p. 59
Closed Doors, Opportunities Lost
by John Yinger
Departments
Political Puzzle
, pp. 60-62
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