America's muscular response to the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait has temporarily stilled all talk of American decline. Yet the national alarm over the expense of Operation Desert Shield, the urgent demands for more help from U.S.
In late July, 1863, in the middle of told me about you."' the Civil War, an imposing man The president's visitor was, of course, with stern features arrived at the Frederick Douglass, the editor of a re-White House hoping to meet Abra- spected abolitionist newspaper, a man in- ham Lincoln. Describing their in- ternationally famous for his oratorical terview later, he declared that, powers and anti-slavery activities. A self-though he was the "only dark spot" in the- taught former...
To return to the Soviet Union or not to return? That is the question now facing one of Russia's most popular novelists. On August 15, 1990, the citizenship of Vladimir Voinovich-as well as that of Alexander Solzhe- nitsyn, Joseph Brodsky, and other Soviet artists-in-exile-was restored. But going home poses problems. Voinovich describes his dilemma.
by Vladimir
If you want something good to hap-
pen in Russia, said the Russian
writer Kornei Chukovsky, you have
to live a long life. Chukovsky to...
Reviews of new research at public agencies and private institutions
"Who Reads Literature?"
Seven Locks Press, P.O. Box 27, Cabin John, Md. 20818. 106 pp. $9.95.
Authors: Nicholas Zill and Marianne Winglee
In the Age of Nintendo, do people still read "serious" lit- erature? Zill, a social psycholo- gist, and Winglee, an analyst at Decision Resource Corpora- tion, knew that someone had to be reciting from the 1,000 volumes of poetry and drama, pondering the 2,000 works o...
James L.Does Congress Payne, "The Permanent Democratic Congress" Norman Need to Be Fixed? Ornstein, and "Public Opinion and the 'Congress Problem' " by
Everett Carl1 Ladd, in The Public Interest (Summer 1990), 11 12 16th St. N.W., Washington, D.C. 20036.
Who is to blame for Washington's long deadlock over the federal budget deficit and other national issues? Congress has emerged as the favorite culprit of many critics. They tend to think that only struc- tural changes-limitations o...
Willard Sterne Randall, in American Heritage (Sept.-Oct. 1990), 60 Fifth Ave., New York, Benedict Arnold N.Y. 10011.
In grade school, every child learns about the treacherous Benedict Arnold, who coldly sold out his country for �£20,000 But Randall, a historian at the University of Vermont, writes that Arnold's treason can be explained, if not excused, a "long fuse of bitterness."
Arnold's vanity and brashness made him an outsider throughout his military career....
David R. Beam, Timothy J. Conlan, and Of Reform Margaret T. Wrightson, in Political Science Quarterly (Summer 1990), 475 Riverside Dr., Ste. 1274, New York, N.Y. 10115-
There used to be only one way to enact radical reforms in Washington: Elect a
u
new president who sweeps into office and rallies Congress to his cause during his fig- urative first 100 days.
Recently, a second stvle of reform has emerged. Because of the explosive growth of congressional staffs, think tanks, and other institutions....
David R. Beam, Timothy J. Conlan, and Of Reform Margaret T. Wrightson, in Political Science Quarterly (Summer 1990), 475 Riverside Dr., Ste. 1274, New York, N.Y. 10115-
There used to be only one way to enact radical reforms in Washington: Elect a
u
new president who sweeps into office and rallies Congress to his cause during his fig- urative first 100 days.
Recently, a second stvle of reform has emerged. Because of the explosive growth of congressional staffs, think tanks, and other institutions....
Jorge Castaiieda, in World Policy Journal (Summer 1990), 777 United
A Latin Policy Nations Plaza, New York, N.Y. 10017, and "Rediscovering Latin America" Abraham l? Lowenthal, in Foreign Affairs (Fall 1990), 58 E.68th St., New York, N.Y. 10021.
Will the end of the Cold War finally free the United States of its last inhibitions against wholesale military intervention in Latin America? That, apparently, is what some Latin Americans fear.
Castafieda and Lowenthal both cite this minority v...
Jorge Castaiieda, in World Policy Journal (Summer 1990), 777 United
A Latin Policy Nations Plaza, New York, N.Y. 10017, and "Rediscovering Latin America" Abraham l? Lowenthal, in Foreign Affairs (Fall 1990), 58 E.68th St., New York, N.Y. 10021.
Will the end of the Cold War finally free the United States of its last inhibitions against wholesale military intervention in Latin America? That, apparently, is what some Latin Americans fear.
Castafieda and Lowenthal both cite this minority v...