March 1988
In This Issue
Explore the March 1988 print edition below. Or to discover more writing from the pages of The Atlantic, browse the full archive.
Articles
Justice in the Middle
On the jurisprudence of Sandra Day O'Connor, possibly the swing vote on the new Supreme Court
Sixty
Some Differences Between Men and Women
We think and behave different for biological and psychological reasons, not just cultural ones
Judah P. Benjamin: The Jewish Confederate
Make Way!
Binstead's Safari
Scotland Through the Ages
The Book and the Brotherhood
Shrapnel in the Heart
Chanel
The Man Who Invented Saturday Morning and Other Adventures in American Enterprise
Acrostic No. 32
The Puzzler
Word Watch
Here are a few of the words being tracked by the editors of The American Heritage Dictionary, published by Houghton Mifflin. A new word that exhibits sustained use may eventually make its way into the dictionary, t he information below represents the first stage of research, not the final product.
The March Almanac
Notes: The Big Nine
The Far East: Asian Journal
Scenes from a debate between Lee Kuan Yew and William Safire, and a look at the racial troubles of Malaysia
Washington: Justice in the Middle
On the jurisprudence of Sandra Day O’Connor, possibly the swing vote on the new Supreme Court
Strange Tales
A Good Place to Live
today's designers of residential areas are increasingly influenced by the grid plans, narrow streets,intimate scale, and convenient shopping of nineteenth-century American towns
1-800-Your Boy
Lilies
Silly Sports
Making Stock: Nothing Takes the Place of Homemade Stock, Darn It
Pollini's Beethoven
Recordings that raise the issue of objectivism in performance
Inside the Beltway
What Poppa Knew
