January 1989
In This Issue
Explore the January 1989 print edition below. Or to discover more writing from the pages of The Atlantic, browse the full archive.
Articles
People Who Meet People: Getting Acquainted in Sixteen Countries
National News
A Border Between Worlds
A Serious Character
Degas
Sanitary Centennial & Selected Short Stories
Wayfarer
Marc Chagall Arabian Nights
Into My Own
Passion & Cunning: Essays on Nationalism, Terrorism a Revolution
Surrender or Starve: The Wars Behind the Famine
Acrostic No. 42
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. The information below: represents the first stage of research, not the final product.
The January Almanac
Notes: A Grateful Nation
El Salvador: Death's Democracy
Civil war, corruption, political murder by left and right—such is the portrait of El Salvador on the eve of a critical election
Egypt: A Benign Brotherhood?
A political force often pictured as incendiary may in fact have a large stake in stability
No Sense Lending My Body an Ear
Wounded Healers
The “helping professions, “ notably psychotherapy and the ministry, appear to attract more than their share of the emotionally unstable
Thus
Contributors
A Van for Violet
The Unfinished War
An inside look at how personal enmity, political calculation, and policy misjudgments prevented any effective prosecution of the War on Poverty by either Lyndon Johnson or Richard Nixon. Part two of a two-part article.
The Upper Story
Shouting "Fire!"
Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes’s famous analogy is widely used and nearly useless
