July 1997

Articles

• The Widening Gap Between Military and Society

  U.S. military personnel of all ranks are feeling increasingly alienated from their own country, and are becoming both more conservative and more politically active than ever before. Do they see America clearly?

  Thomas E. Ricks

• New-Alphabet Disease?

  It's tough suddenly changing from one alphabet to another. Azerbaijan is on its third one this century

  Toby Lester

• The Computer Delusion

  Todd Oppenheimer

• Zero

  Dick Teresi

• Word Court

  Barbara Wallraff

• The Mall of Fame

  Even in neglect, a shrine to our society's values embodies them still

  Richard Rubin

• Visitations

  Gerald Dumas

• Finitude

  Guy Billout

• A Train in Spain

  Lucy McCauley

• Alleycat Couriers

  Marshall Jon Fisher

• Surveyors of the Enlightenment

  Rick Moody

• Chekhov in American

  Adam Kirsch

• 77 North Washington Street

  Christina Adam

• Letters

  U.S. English, Inc.Washington, D.C.

  Robert D. King

• The July Almanac

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