May 1985
In This Issue
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Articles
The Afrikaner Mentality
The Matter of Wales
The Long Surrender
Annie John
The Tenth Man
Afro-American Folktales
Afro-American Folktales
Penance for Jerry Kennedy
A Haida Potlatch
Nero: The End of a Dynasty
De Alfonce Tennis
The Atlantic Puzzler
Notes: The Elements of Lifestyle
The term has not always been the property of mass-marketing
Washington: "Conservative Opportunity Society"
Newt Gingrich and other Republicans win votes by talking like conservatives and spending like liberals
Poland: Solidarity's Future
The resistance movement lives on, but it is increasingly dispirited by Poland’s official climate of enforced mediocrity
Crying Workshop to Be Offered
Smokers Get a Raw Deal
Business in Space
The weightless environment of space, in which valuable new commodities can be manufactured more efficiently than on Earth, may be the next economic frontier for American companies
Milkweed
Tyler and Brina
Eulogy for Richard Hugo
Cosima Wagner and Friedrich Nietzsche
Toward a New Public Philosophy
The old liberal public philosophy no longer compels widespread belief ,but its conservative successor is at odds with the new realities of the world economy
The Market in Bloodlines
Wealthy speculators have transformed the once genteel hobby of horse breeding into a high-stakes enterprise
In a Japanese Moss Garden
In Pursuit of the New
Humor and Nothingness
Queen of the Nineteenth Century
