April 1999

In This Issue
John Lewis Gaddis, “Living in Candlestick Park”; Robert Buderi, “The Virus Wars”; Matthew Gurewitsch, “Forget the Callas Legend”; Peter Davison, “Poet of the Factory Floor”; and much more.
Articles
Living in Candlestick Park
In the twenty-first century geopolitics might well take its metaphors from geology, as the state system of international relations gets shaken to its foundations
Confucius and the Scholars
East Asian technocrats and modernists in Beijing, among others, are eagerly embracing an updated Confucianism -- even as scholars in the West ask some eyebrow-raising questions. Did the Chinese sage really exist? If so, did he have much to do with the religious and ethical system that bears his name? Could Confucianism have been invented by Jesuit missionaries?
Afternoon of the Sassanoa
Jacob had never in his life seen his father or grandfather call for help while on the water. He had been thinking of his mother's shepherd's pie, but now he saw what he should have seen before
The Virus Wars
Guided by an inspired analogy with the human immune system, IBM scientists have developed the next generation of defenses against computer bugs.
If the Shoe Fits- 99.04
In search of a formula for everything
Ambivalent Autonomy
The vote to create an independent regional authority did not come automatically to Wales, as it did to Scotland. The startlingly close vote reveals much about a nation that has both embraced and resisted a colonial mentality
Touring Turin
The place to experience the height of northern-Italian elegance isn't where most people think
Forget the Callas Legend
The reissued official Callas discography reveals the art that will last, which the diva's image often obscures
Against Inequality
A valiant proposal to give every American twenty-one-year-old the same chance to prosper (or fail)
Poet of the Factory Floor
77 North Washington Street
Letters
The Almanac
Word Watch
A selection of terms that have newly been coined, that have recently acquired new currency, or that have taken on new meanings, compiled by the executive editor of the
