November 1995
In This Issue
Harvey Cox, “The Warring Visions of the Religious Right”; Eric Schlosser, “In the Strawberry Fields”; Steven Lagerfeld, “What Main Street Could Learn From the Mall”; Michael Finkel, “The World's Toughest Competition”; and much more.
Articles
In the Strawberry Fields
The management of California's strawberry industry offers a case study of both the dependence on an imported peasantry that characterizes much of American agriculture and the destructive consequences of a deliberate low-wage economy.
A Model Prison
McKean, a federal correctional institution, does everything that "make 'em bust rocks" politicians decry --imagine, educating inmates! -- and it works
The Warring Visions of the Religious Right
Regent University is the intellectual and theological center of the Christian Coalition. What is it like there? Does an inverse political correctness rule? What theology is taught, and what are its political implications? On a recent visit the author, a noted Harvard theologian, found some surprising answers -- among them, that the "Christian right" is no monolith
What Main Street Can Learn From the Mall
A guided tour with a landscape architect and retailing specialist who believes that shopping malls—vilify them though we might—can offer moribund cities what they desperately need: practical lessons in the psychology of commerce
The Elite Primary
It's the real first-in-the-nation contest. At stake: the Rolodex men, the press, and Rush Limbaugh
Bow Ties
Some rules of thumb for the neck
Clash of the Titans
Ours
Scaling the Heights
A skier's pilgrimage to Switzerland--and how to afford one
Traveling Collections
Presaging what might become atrend, a West Coast museum is paying to show part of the permanent collection of an overcrowded East Coast one
The World's Toughest Competition
Each spring some eighty Army Rangers seek to demonstrate that they are the hardiest and most multi-talented athletes in the world.
A Passive President?
A rich one-volume biography of the touchstone of American greatness
From Out of the South
A review of All God's Children: The Bosket Family and the American Tradition of Violence by Fox Butterfield
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Letters
The Almanac
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