June 1980
In This Issue
Explore the June 1980 print edition below. Or to discover more writing from the pages of The Atlantic, browse the full archive.
Articles
Annie, Don't Get Your Gun
The question of whether women should be drafted forces society to think more deeply about both war and feminism
How to Avert a New 'Cold War'
The senator from South Dakota and 1972 Democratic candidate for president examines the so-called Carter Doctrine, finds it seriously wanting, and proposes a different road to security and survival in the nuclear age.
The Atlantic Puzzler
The American Short Story Contest
Israel: Jews Versus Jews
The embattled nation’s perpetual struggle for survival masks an unpleasant truth: Israel is beset by ethnic strife within its own society.
The Wary Traveler: The Summer of 1980
Playing Games
The case against—or for—holding the Olympics in Moscow, in which it is posited that one can detect a tyranny merely by assaying the state’s emphasis on sport.
The Editor's Page
St. Stephen's Green
Empty White Blotch on Map of Universe: A Possible View
Uncle Sidney and the Mexicans
New
The Future of the Photovoltaic Cell
Can solar power ever play an important role in solving our energy problems? The answer depends in large part on the perfection of the ingenious device that turns sunlight into electricity.
Everything Twice
The Third Kind of Knowledge
Young and at Cambridge, suffused with the charm and comfort of university life, a student and poet came to terms with the knowledge that lies beyond reason and experience.
Strasbourg: The European Parliament Convenes
For the first time in history Europe has a democratically elected parliament, and the newly independent body is feeling its oats.
The Stengler Ploy
All the Tea in India
Smile Please
Moortown
The Lean Years: World Resources and the Politics of Scarcity
Falling in Place
Beyond Geography: The Western Spirit Against the Wilderness
Innocent Blood
The Diary of Virginia Woolf
The Diary of Virginia Woolf
"Fastnet, Force 10"
Doctor Fischer of Geneva or the Bomb Party
The Kemble Era: John Philip Kemble, Sarah Siddons and the London Stage
The Viking World
A. E. Housman
John Flaxman
Sherman's March
A Winter's Day
The Gossamer Fly
Scott and Amundsen
Laying Waste/the Search for Solutions
