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September 1984 Issue
September 1984 Cover
This magazine has been fully digitized as a part of The Atlantic's archive. Each article originally printed in this magazine is available here, complete and unedited from the historical print. Read more from this magazine, or explore the full archive.
  • Stopping at the Savoy
    Holly Brubach
  • Appropriate Technology
    James Fallows
  • The Art of Memory
    Richard Sennktt
  • The Pulse of Capitalism
    David M. Cordon
  • Son of the Gulag
    Bernard Levin
  • Tough Guys Don't Dance
    Phoebe-Lou Adams

The Democrats' Coming Civil War Over Industrial Policy

On the vicissitudes of an idea that has come to mean different things to different constituencies

By Simon Lazarus and Robert E. Litan
September 1984 Issue
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