November 1992
In This Issue
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Articles
Feminists Against the First Amendment
A critique of a movement that is winning new recruits among politicians and on college campuses—a movement that appeals to the widespread loathing of pornography, that promotes a view of men as lubricious brutes, and that has united authoritarians on the left and the right in an assault on free speech
Bosnia: Hands Off
Why Europe has been reluctant to intervene
Owl Pellet
How Portland Does It
A city that protects its thriving, civil core
Heirlooms
Bivouac Near Trenton
Buzzard
To the Wall
What School Choice Really Means
The elementary and junior high schools of East Harlem have been held up by many educators and politicians as models, and as proof that allowing parents to choose their children’s schools is the key to improved performance. Many of the achievements in East Harlem are real, the author finds, but the reasons for them are not always apparent—and not always faced up to by educators
Lotte Lenya and Kurt Weill
Travel Notes
Vocal Violin: Remembering Joseph Szigeti and an Expressive Approach We Have Lost
A Failed Dominion
A Perfectible Culture
Unions to the Rescue
The Great Game
The Call of the Toad
Doctor Criminale
O Caledonia
The Volcano Lover
The Puzzler
Word Histories
The November Almanac
Notes: No More Laissez-Faire
It’s time to confront a pernicious form of protectionism
Russia: The Meaning of 1917
On the seventy-fifth anniversary of the Czar’s downfall, a question: Was there really a Russian Revolution?
Engineering: Pyramid Schemes: Efforts Persist to Explain How Egypt's Pyramids Were Built, and Why
745 Boylston Street
Contributors
Arts & Entertainment Preview
History and Mystery
Family Values Abroad
Tune in to Tie-Ins
Getting More Bang for Your Buck
A Taylor-Made Yellow Brick Road
At Long Last, Angels--in l.A
Childs Play
Jewels in the Crown
The Reggae Revolution Lives On
Rollin' Through Gotham
Son of a Gun
