May 1996
In This Issue
Peter G. Peterson, “Will America Grow Up Before It Grows Old?”; Dmitri Tymoczko, “The Nitrous Oxide Philosopher”; Thomas Byrne Edsall, “The Protean President”; Geoffrey Wheatcroft, “In Tune With Ireland”; and much more.
Articles
I Don't Talk Service No More
Neap's face is not very clear to me. It drifts just out of range. He said he could feel his house going down while we were talking on the phone.
Will America Grow Up Before It Grows Old?
The long gray wave of Baby Boomers retiring could lead to an all-engulfing economic crisis -- unless we balance the budget, rein in senior entitlements, raise retirement ages, and boost individual and pension savings. Yet politicians of both parties say that most of the urgently necessary reforms are "off the table
The Nitrous Oxide Philosopher
Do drugs make religious experience possible? They did for James and for other philosopher-mystics of his day. James's experiments with psychoactive drugs raise difficult questions about belief and its conditions
Backlogs of History
The past is a growing problem, and there's only going to be more of it
Blowback
The CIA poured billions into a jihad against Soviet-occupied Afghanistan, creating a militant Islamist Abraham Lincoln Brigade believed to have been involved in bombings from Islamabad to New York. Is Bosnia next?
Someplace Like Home
An eerily familiar house rises in many American landscapes
The Protean President
Changed, changed utterly
More Marriages: A Poetry Anthology
In Tune With Ireland
The annual Wexford Festivalmakes opera great fun
Finished Symphonies
Clementi's neglected orchestral music is far better than his present reputation suggests.
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