June 1999
In This Issue
Lester C. Thurow, “Building Wealth”; Robert Kaplan, “Kissinger, Metternich, and Realism”; Wendy Kaminer, “The Grads of '69”; Thomas H. McNeely, “Sheep”; and much more.
Articles
Eden: A Gated Community
The plot contains elements of Lost Horizon and Heart of Darkness, Fitzcarraldo and The Tempest. After making a fortune as founder of North Face and Esprit, Douglas Tompkins embraced the principles of deep ecology. Then, forsaking civilization, he bought a Yosemite-sized piece of wilderness in Chile, where only he and a like-minded few would live. They intended to show the world how an eco-community could flourish even as the ancient forest was kept pristine. Tompkins ran into one big problem: other people
To the Animal in the Hole
Building Wealth
One of the nation's most influential economists asks a few basic questions. How does knowledge create wealth? How can societies incubate entrepreneurs? What skills will the entrepreneurs need?
When They Get Out
How prisons, established to fight crime, produce crime.
Kissinger, Metternich, and Realism
Henry Kissinger's first book, on the Napoleonic Wars, explains Kissinger's foreign policy better than any of his memoirs, and is striking as an early display of brilliance and authority
The Mirror of Dorian Gray
Mirrors never lie, they say. But how much truth do we really want?
Two Deaths in Rathmines
A memory of loss from the distant Dublin childhood of the writer and former diplomat
The Making of the English Middle Class
Under Margaret Thatcher and now under Tony Blair, Britain has become markedly less class-bound. How did this happen?
Sheep
"What you done, son," the sheriff said to Lloyd, "separates a man from the whole world. And that's why I said you need to get right with yourself."
The Wild New West
Daredevils, coots, and cowboy poets love Moab, Utah -- and so does at least one all-American family
Politically Correct Planting
When gardening becomes a crusade, it's time to pause and take stock
Red Sauce Revisited
The backlash against a noble tradition has gone too far
The Grads of '69
Brief Reviews
photographs by R. Valentine Atkinson,foreword by Nick Lyons. Lyons Press, 176 pages, $39.95.
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Letters
The Almanac
Cats Out of the Bag
Investigations of slang by the editor of the Random House Dictionary of American Slang
