December/January 1995 Vol. XX No. 6

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

International Labor Standards: Protectionism or Simple Decency?

Hype or Help? by Alice Amsden

The Case for Labor Standards by Richard Rothstein

Letter to Horace by Joseph Brodsky

Brodsky writes to an old friend about imperial expansion and erotic passion, about meter and rhyme, about the limits of reflection and the possibility of imagination.

The Safety of Sunday (poem) by Tom Sleigh

No Runs, No Hits, No One Left on Base by Mary Ann Jannazo

Winner of the Third Annual Short Story Contest

Poet's Sampler: Bob Hass introduces Cal Bedient

Reflections on Strategy in a Dark Time by Richard Flacks

Radical democracy -- a relic of the 60s, or an idea whose time has come?

Race, Genes, and IQ by Ned Block

Critics of The Bell Curve have attacked every point in the book -- except the most important one.

Night Bloom (poem) by Patricia Traxler

Persuasion? by Alan A. Stone

The film redeems modern sensibilities -- and trashes Jane Austen's book.

BOOKS

Fiction

Poetry