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April  1998  Issue
 
 
The Global Economy and Mammon

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Art and Change in the Culture
Who Founded Nashville?
Are Americans' Values Changing?

 
SPECIAL REPORT--THE GLOBAL ECONOMY
Super America?
Paul S. Hewitt
Blessings and Burdens of Globalization
Daniel T. Griswold
$35 Trillion and Growing
Bryan T. Johnson
The Global Economy
Editor

ANALYSIS
Europe's Tiny Giants
Susan Ladika

COMMENTARY
Europe's Bad Farm Policies
Dennis Avery
Asia and the IMF: Let Free Markets Work
Brett Schaefer And William W. Beach
Asia and the IMF: The IMF Can Stem the Crisis
Robert Solomon

ECONOMIC WATCH
Deflation Tribulation
Elise Griffith

ELECTION '98
Parties Split on Issues From A to T
John Gizzi

EYE ON THE HIGH COURT
To Form a More Perfect Union
David C. Slade

MEDIA IN REVIEW
Rush to Judgment?
Robert H. Giles

PEOPLE IN THE NEWS
Richard Solomon: Pursuing World Peace
Robert R. Selle

WORLD VIEWS
The Pope in Cuba

 

 
ADVENTURE
Home on the Anna Antal: Biking and Barging in Holland
Lloyd Eby

TRAVEL
The Mews of London: New Life for the Horse Stables of London
Linda Joyce Forristal

 

 
COMMENTARY
Trouble Comes to Town: Commentary on Clyde Edgerton's Where Trouble Sleeps
Robert Gingher

FEATURED BOOK
Introduction
Editor

REVIEWS
The China Tragedy
Yuan Feng
SILVER CITY
Li Rui, translated by Howard Goldblatt

They Just Don't Get It
Philip Gold
THE END OF SANITY
Martin L. Gross

Resistance and Reality
Herb Greer
OCCUPATION
Ian Ousby

Reagan: A Legacy of Leadership
Lee Edwards
RONALD REAGAN
Dinesh D'Souza
THE CITY ON A HILL
Michael Reagan
RECOLLECTIONS OF REAGAN
Peter Hannaford

John Quincy Adams: Battler for Liberty
Eric P. Olsen
JOHN QUINCY ADAMS
Paul C. Nagel

 

 
 
   

 
CRAFT & DESIGN
A Glass Act: Master Fuser Blends Art and Craft
Stephen Henkin

GALLERY
David Ruben Piqtoukun: Between Two Worlds
Editor

RELIGION IN THE ARTS
Art and the Resurgent Spiritual
Susan Fegley Osmond
Is Hollywood Hostile to Religion?: A Matter of Perspective
Lloyd Eby
Sin and the Small Screen
Tom O'Brien

 

   
AT THE EDGE
Those Mysterious Cosmic Gamma Rays
Stephen P. Maran
Streaming on the Web
G. Carroll Strait

IMPACTS
Titanium: At the Speed of Life
Steve Voynick

NATURE WALK
Liquid From the Gods
Tom Priddy

SCIENCE ESSAY
Fighting Hidden Hunger
Gerald F. Combs Jr., Ross M. Welch, And John M. Duxbury

 

   
CROSSROADS
Merit and Magic: Buddhism Faces Modernity in Thailand
Ben Barber

FOLK WISDOM
Fortune's Magic Favors: Two Folktales from the Philippines
Jan Knappert
Ever Tinkering With Chance: Baseball's Enduring Superstitions
Jack Connelly

HERITAGE
Southern Belles: Georgia's Sweet Vidalia Onions
Craig J. Renner

PATTERNS
Proud to Be a People: The Basters of Rehoboth, Namibia
Mark Downey

PEOPLES
From Ancient Mesopotamia to a Modern Basement: On Cuneiform Tablets and the Origins of Writing
Ewa Wasilewska

 

   
ESSAYS
A Penny of Prevention Saves a Dollar of Cure: The Case for Increasing Public-Health Spending
Patricia Carroll
Is the Euro a Good Idea for Europe?
Peter Neckermann
Theodore Roosevelt: A Man for All Ages
Martin D. Tullai

LITERATURE AND CHARACTER
Introduction
Editor
Shakespeare's Cordelia and the Power of Character
Diane Dreher

 
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