September 1996

Articles

• Home From Nowhere

  Can the momentum of sprawl be halted? America's zoning laws, intended to control the baneful effects of industry, have mutated, in the view of one architecture critic, into a system that corrodes civic life, outlaws the human scale, defeats tradition and authenticity, and confounds our yearning for an everyday environment worthy of our affection.

  James Howard Kunstler

• Fort Leavenworth and the Eclipse of Nationhood

  At Fort Leavenworth, where the Army trains its top brass, captains and colonels study high-tech warfare, read the classics, and ponder what will be left to defend in a transnational world.

  Robert D. Kaplan

• The E Word

  "We are not at war with Egypt. We are in a state of armed conflict."-- ANTHONY EDEN DURING THE SUEZ CRISIS, 1956

  Cullen Murphy

• In the Land of Conservative Women

  A diverse group of womanactivists, including many young people and small-business owners, are bringing new energy to the Republican Party.

  Elinor Burkett

• Vessel of Last Resort

  One of the last tourists to take a barge up the Congo River had arrived, but dead of malaria

  Jeffrey Tayler

• Victim Kitsch

  With its pop sentimentality,

  Francis Davis

• Molten Gold

  With its origins in exotic nectars, honey canhave flavors you would never expect

  Corby Kummer

• A Magisterial History

  The years of abundance and racial reconstruction were all the time making for the darkest folly.

  Jack Beatty

• 77 North Washington Street

• Letters

• The Almanac

• Word Court

  Barbara Wallraff

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