July 1996

Articles

• Gap Politics

  The famous gender gap is often described simply as good news for one party—women are moving to the Democrats. But it's a two-way gap—even more men have moved to the Republicans. Each party and its candidates now appear to represent, at least in part, the interests of one sex against the other

  Steven Stark

• Recipe for a Depression

  Anonymous

• The Forces Making for an Economic Collapse

  Why a depression could happen

  Thomas I. Palley

• The Economic Consequences of Mr. Clinton

  The belief that balancing the budget must takeprecedence over every other economic considerationhas captured the minds of President Bill Clinton andhis advisers. In this essay a former economic policymakertakes a critical look at the economic logic and portentoushistory behind a new orthodoxy he regards as dangerous

  Robert A. Levine

• Express Yourself: It's Later Than You Think

  If you're confused about Postmodernism,that may mean you understand it.

  Brad Holland

• Like Young

  Jazz has been attracting its first young audiences in decades -- but are they hearing a music without a future?

  Francis Davis

• Welcome to Our Tomb

  Visitors to Ulysses S. Grant's final resting placehave an opportunity to preserve their reactions for posterity. They don't need any prodding

  Richard Rubin

• High Resolution, Unresolved

  Private companies will soon launch satellites powerful enough to spot environmental hazards--or a car in your driveway. Should we worry about snooping from space?

  Mary Graham

• Germania Irredenta

  Renouncing a provision of the 1945 Potsdam Declaration, Germans are looking more than wistfully at lands they lost in the war -- and suing to get them back. Do some things never change?

  Hans Koning

• Buffed and Polished

  Health spas are more numerous and diverse than ever before. Our correspondent learns how to choose wisely.

  Deborah Fallows

• Living-Room Galleries 96.07

  As the New York art world rebounds, dealers are responding to an increasingneed for community--and to high rents--byreviving the artistic salon.

  Carol Kino

• Robert Penn McInerney

  A review of Last of the Savages by Jay McInerney

  Charles Thompson

• 745 Boylston Street

• Letters

• The Almanac

• Word Court

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