June 1998
In This Issue
Christopher Caldwell, “The Southern Captivity of the GOP”; Murray Sayle, “The Social Contradictions of Japanese Capitalism”; Roy Blount, “That Was Me on TV”; Elizabeth Stuckey-French, “Electric Wizard”; and much more.
Articles
Good News and Bad News About Breast Cancer
Women are more alarmed than they need to be about the chances that they will develop breast cancer. But they are also more confident than they should be that the advances medicine has made in treating the disease and prolonging life mean that it can be cured
The Southern Captivity of the GOP
In a geographic and cultural box, with political demography tilting against it, the Republican Party is an "obsolescent one," argues the author, a senior writer for the conservative
The Social Contradictions of Japanese Capitalism
Behind the bad economic news from Japan, the writer argues, is a worse social crisis—one he witnesses daily in microcosm in the Japanese village where he lives
A Good Climate for Investment
Reducing reliance on carbon for energy -- to safeguard our atmosphere and our climate -- could bring about not personal deprivation but a worldwide economic boom
That Was Me On TV
Life in the last, or next-to-last, slot
Moving the Bell
Soon America's most venerated icon will have a new, and more appropriate, home
Electric Wizard
They sat calmly, waiting to hear Jason's poem, and the weight of what had happened to them hung heavily in the room. I hoped they'd start fighting again
Beyond Prague
Where to slake a thirst for fairy-tale architecture -- among other Czech specialities
Better Butter
An intentional and elusive sourness heightens butter's natural sweetness -- and makes it worthy of being the featured rather than the supporting player
Discovering Young Poets
How some of the best-known poets of this century got that way
How McKinley Begot Franco
77 North Washington Street
Letters
The Almanac
At Last Count
Word Improvisation
Investigations of slang by the editor of the
