October/November 1995
Vol. XX No. 4

• Editor's Notes.
• Contributors to this issue.

Is Government Incompetent?

A Democratic Revival? by Ruy Teixeira

A Rational Option by John Canham-Clyne with Steffie Woolhandler and David Himmelstein

No Soul by Alan A. Stone

Burnt by the Sun is a remarkable film with one large flaw -- it sentimentalizes Stalinism.

Digging Ditches (story) by Debra Dickerson

Poet's Sampler: Brenda Hillman introduces Annah Sobelman

Atrocities by Allan Forbes

World War II ended the tradition of civilian immunity. We've been living with the consequences ever since.

Message to the Bride (poem) David Rivard

Reader's Forum

Responses to Rivers' "Beyond the Nationalism of Fools"

• Michael Berube
• Tony Martin
• Robin D. G. Kelley
• Martin Kilson
• Glenn C. Loury
• Bruce Nichols
• Lisa Y. Sullivan
• Karen Lattea
• Willard R. Johnson
• Mark Tushnet
• Bob Hulteen

Responses to Thomson's "Abortion"

• Philip L. Quinn
• Donald Regan
• Douglas Laycock
• Drucilla Cornell
• Peter de Marneffe
  
  
• reply by Judith Jarvis Thomson

Evening III (poem) Stuart Dischell

Books

Flashman and the Tragic Sensibility by Andrew Klavan

Harry Paget Flashman is a liar, coward, and bully -- the perfect amoralist and an ideal historian.

Reviews

Richard Kaye reviews Dada Suicides: Selected Texts of Arthur Cravan, Jacques Rigaut, Julian Torma and Jacques Vache Ed. Roger Conover, et al.

Doron Weber reviews Sabbath's Theater by Philip Roth

Don Share reviews The Wild Field by Rita Gabis