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January 1989 Issue
January 1989 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.
  • People Who Meet People: Getting Acquainted in Sixteen Countries
    Barbara Wallraff
  • National News
    David M. Kennedy
  • A Border Between Worlds
    Jorge I. Domínguez
  • A Serious Character
    Phoebe-Lou Adams
  • Degas
    Phoebe-Lou Adams
  • Sanitary Centennial & Selected Short Stories
    Phoebe-Lou Adams

Shouting "Fire!"

Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes’s famous analogy is widely used and nearly useless

By Alan M. Dershowitz
January 1989 Issue
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