Summer 1998
Is the Bible Bad News for Women?
In Essence
A Survey of Recent Articles
"A Tale of Two Reactions" by Mark Lilla, in The New York Review of Books (May 14, 1998), 1755 Broadway, 5th floor, New York, N.Y. 10019–3780; "The Southern Captivity of the GOP" by Christopher Caldwell, in The Atlantic Monthly (June 1998), 77 N. Washington St., Boston, Mass. 02114.
"Limits of Political Engagement in Antebellum America: A New Look at the Golden Age of Participatory Democracy" by Glenn C. Altschuler and Stuart M. Blumin, in The Journal of American History (Dec. 1997), 1125 E. Atwater Ave., Bloomington, Ind. 47401–3701.
"On the Myth of Chinese Power Projection Capabilities" by Rick Reece, in Breakthroughs (Spring 1998), Security Studies Program, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 292 Main St. (E38-603), Cambridge, Mass. 02139.
"The Fall of Berlin and the Rise of a Myth" by Donald E. Shepardson, in The Journal of Military History (Jan. 1998), Society for Military History, George C. Marshall Library, Virginia Military Institute, Lexington, Va. 24450–1600.
"Global Utopias and Clashing Civilizations: Misunderstanding the Present" by John Gray, in International Affairs (Jan. 1998), Chatham House, 10 St. James’s Square, London SW1Y 4LE, England.
A Survey of Recent Articles
"The New Meaning of Corporate Social Responsibility" by Robert B. Reich, in California Management Review (Winter 1998), Univ. of California, 5549 Haas School of Business #1900, Berkeley, Calif. 94720–1900.
"Reassessing Trends in U.S. Earnings Inequality" by Robert I. Lerman, in Monthly Labor Review (Dec. 1997), Bureau of Labor Statistics, Washington, D.C. 20212.
"Are U.S. Students Behind?" by Gerald W. Bracey, in The American Prospect (Mar.–Apr. 1998), P.O. Box 383080, Cambridge, Mass. 02238.
"Migration Experience and Family Patterns in the ‘Promised Land’ " by Stewart E. Tolnay, in Journal of Family History (Jan. 1998), Sage Publications, 2455 Teller Road, Thousand Oaks, Calif. 91320.
"Educational Television Is Not an Oxymoron" by Daniel R. Anderson, in The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science (May 1998), 3937 Chestnut St., Philadelphia, Pa. 19104.
"Ombudsman to the Swedes" by Steven Price, in American Journalism Review (Apr. 1998), 8701 Adelphi Road, Adelphi, Md. 20783–1716.
A Survey of Recent Articles
A Survey of Recent Articles
"The Origin of Birds and Their Flight" by Kevin Padian and Luis M. Chiappe, in Scientific American (Feb. 1998), 415 Madison Ave., New York, N.Y. 10017–1111; "The Big Flap" by Larry D. Martin, in The Sciences (Mar.–Apr. 1998), New York Academy of Sciences, 2 E. 63rd St., New York, N.Y. 10021.
"Chess Is Too Easy" by Selmer Bringsjord, in Technology Review (Mar.–Apr., 1998), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Bldg. W59, Cambridge, Mass. 02139.
"Antimicrobial Functions of Spices: Why Some Like It Hot" by Jennifer Billing and Paul W. Sherman, in The Quarterly Review of Biology (Mar. 1998), 110 Life Sciences Library, State Univ. of New York, Stony Brook, N.Y. 11794–5275.
"The Forgotten Killer" by Vince Passaro, in Harper’s Magazine (Apr. 1998), 666 Broadway, New York, N.Y. 10012.
"Restoration Drama" by Daniel Zalewski, in Lingua Franca (Feb. 1998), 22 W. 38th St., New York, N.Y. 10018.
"Did Salieri Kill Mozart?" by Agnes Selby, in Quadrant (Jan.–Feb. 1998), 46 George St., Fitzroy, Victoria 3065, Australia.
A Survey of Recent Articles
"Israel’s Revolution in Security Affairs" by Eliot A. Cohen, Michael J. Eisenstadt, and Andrew J. Bacevich, in Survival (Spring 1998), International Institute for Strategic Studies, 23 Tavistock St., London WC2E 7NQ England.
"The Ideology of Miss Thailand in National, Consumerist, and Transnational Space" by William A. Callahan, in Alternatives (Jan.–Mar. 1998), Lynne Rienner Publishers, 1800 30th St., Ste. 314, Boulder, Colo. 80301–1026.
Reviews of new research at public agencies and private institutions
Book Reviews
FAUST'S METROPOLIS: A History of Berlin By Alexandra Richie. Carroll & Graf. 891 pp. $37.95
MAKING SENSE OF ILLNESS: Science, Society, and Disease. By Robert A. Aronowitz, M.D. Cambridge Univ. Press. 267 pp. $29.95
ACHIEVING OUR COUNTRY: Leftist Thought in Twentieth-Century America. By Richard Rorty. Harvard Univ. Press. 159 pp. $18.95
By Bill Bamberger and Cathy N. Davidson. Center for Documentary Studies/Norton. 224 pp. $27.50
By Ivan Hall. Norton. 208 pp. $25
ONE NATION AFTER ALL
By Alan Wolfe.
Viking.
384 pp. $24.95
By Howard Kurtz. Free Press. 324 pp. $25
By Meredith Small. Anchorbooks. 320 pp. $24.95
By Henry Petroski. Knopf. 239 pp. $24
By Alex Zwerdling. Basic. 425 pp. $35
By Auberon Waugh. Carroll & Graf. 288 pp. $24
By Thomas M. Disch. Free Press. 272 pp. $25
By David M. Rabban. Cambridge Univ. Press. 393 pp. $34.95
By Ze'ev Sternhell. Translated by David Maisel. Princeton Univ. Press. 419 pp. $29.95
Edited by Robert Faggen. Farrar, Straus & Giroux. 178 pp. $21
By Rudiger Safranski. Translated by Ewald Osers. Harvard Univ. Press. 474 pp. $35
By Linda Simon. Harcourt Brace. 480 pp. $35
By Pierre Manent. Translated by Marc A. LePain. Princeton Univ. Press. 248 pp. $24.95
Essays
"I do not think that they ever experience the same feeling of fighting against time or having to coordinate activities with an abstract passage of time, because their points of reference are mainly the activities themselves, which are generally of a leisurely character--there being no autonomous points of reference to which activities have to conform with precision."
How should Americans balance work and leisure?
Fraught with profound questions about the obligations of citizenship, conscription has been a controversial issue at crucial moments in the American past. During the Vietnam War, the draft was almost as much an object of protest as the conflict itself. Then, a quarter-century ago, conscription ceased. Our author takes a look back.
It is often said that people come to resemble their dogs, and dogs their masters. But we humans do not stop at searching for reflections of our individual qualities in our canine companions. We are also eager to find the representative virtues of entire nations and ethnic groups.
The God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob is not the god in whom many women today find comfort. In response to New Age spiritualism or feminist need, such women are inventing goddesses or reclaiming ancient deities to give direction to their spiritual lives. Yet the rejection of the biblical God, and of the Bible itself, might be overly hasty—or so suggests a new generation of biblical scholars.
Of the many books that seek to tell Americans about themselves, The Lonely Crowd stands among a small collection of classics. Yet the meaning of this modern classic was largely misunderstood during the decade of its greatest popularity, and its analysis of American society may be more relevant to our time than it was to the 1950s.
Time is one of the more confounding products of civilization. While rooted
in nature, it is measured, cut, and consumed in different ways in different
cultures—though rarely satisfactorily in modern ones. In the West, a temporal
[At Issue]
The poetry of Eugenio Montale selected and introduced by Anthony Hecht
