The November Cover (image) The Warring Visions of the Religious Right A prominent liberal theologian visits Pat Robertson's Regent University, which turns out to be a microcosm of the theological and intellectual turbulence within what is often mistakenly seen as a monolithic "religious right" in America. by Harvey Cox In the Strawberry Fields California agriculture relies more than ever on the exploitation of an imported peasantry. And the rise of the strawberry industry reveals a new and insidiously oppressive form of sharecropping, tantamount to debt peonage. by Eric Schlosser What Main Street Can Learn From the Mall While others deride the aesthetics of the American shopping mall, one retail consultant, Robert Gibbs, argues that the principles of the mall can actually help revitalize towns and small cities. by Steven Lagerfeld

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