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December 1989 Issue
December 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.
  • Can We Be Good Without God?
    Glenn Tinder
  • Plunge Right In: Exhilarating Caribbean Vacations by the Sea, and in It
    Barbara Wallraff
  • The Voices of Kurt Weill: New Recordings and Reissued Classics Speak to a Modern Audience
    Lloyd Schwartz
  • Learning by Story
    Neil Postman
  • A Symbol of the Eighties
    Jack Beatty
  • Thunder at Twilight
    Phoebe-Lou Adams

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