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September 1986 Issue
September 1986 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.
  • Women in the Work Force
    George Guilder
  • Sex in Our Time
    Phyllis Rose
  • The Triumph of the Nerds
    Lloyd Rose
  • Alaska: Southeast to McKinley
  • Impostors
    Phoebe-Lou Adams
  • Men's Lives
    Phoebe-Lou Adams

New Zealand: The Politics of Identity

A pastoral country, threatened by “Americanization,” seeks to find its own voice

By David Harlan
September 1986 Issue
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