July 1983

Articles

• Military Spending: Are We Falling Behind the Soviets?

  The case for greater U.S. defense spending may rest on a misreading of the military balance between NATO and the Warsaw Pact nations

  Franklyn D. Holzman

• Art and Ardor

  James Atlas

• The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill

  Phoebe-Lou Adams

• Whose Little Boy Are You?

  Phoebe-Lou Adams

• A Bitter Fog

  Phoebe-Lou Adams

• The Dog Book

  Phoebe-Lou Adams

• The Name of the Rose

  Phoebe-Lou Adams

• The Wandering Unicorn

  Phoebe-Lou Adams

• A Private View

  Phoebe-Lou Adams

• Gusliar Wonders

  Phoebe-Lou Adams

• The Atlantic Puzzler

  Emily Cox and Henry Rathvon

• Demographics: An Epidemic of Publicity

  The rate of births to girls between the ages of fifteen and nineteen has fallen by 45 percent since 1957

  Jo Ann S. Putnam-Scholes

• Peking: Trying to Make China Work

  A renewed interest in private gain has little chance of improving China’s statecontrolled economy

  Ross Terrill

• The Ordeal of Kenneth Adelman

  A battle in the holy war overarms control

  James Fallows

• The Declining Middle

  With most jobs being created at the top and the bottom of the ladder; America may have difficulty remaining a middle-class society

  Bob Kuttner

• The Difficult Marriage

  Donald Hall

• Robert Louis Stevenson and Henry Adams

  Nancy Caldwell Sorel

• Horace and Margaret's Fifty-Second

  Charles Baxter

• Ibis

  Harvey Oxenhorn

• The Future of Water

  The threats to the resource are real , but not insurmountable

  Peter Rogers

• The List of the Mohicans: 1. Chingachgook 2. Porthos? 3. Uncas

  Roy Blount Jr.

• Free to Argue

  Robert Lekachman

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