June 1972
In This Issue
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Articles
Lives Without Language
Spring Moviegoing
The Peripatetic Reviewer
The Descent of Woman
Before the Deluge
The Quiet End of Evening
Things to Come
Bonecrack
We
China, India, and the Ruins of Washington
Going to America
The Godforgotten
A Political Education
The Bridge
The Rosa Luxemburg Contraceptives Cooperative
Ethiopia
A Year in a Welsh School
Innocent Bystander: Confessions of a Second-Class Citizen
Contributors
Superdams: The Perils of Progress
The Editor's Page
Divinest Syzygy
Strictly Personal
A Conscientious Objector at Parris Island
“Look what we got here! A pacifist in my Marine Corps!”
In the Toils of the Law
On jury duty, everyone tries hard to be fair; some try hard to be fair to the defendant, some to the plaintiff.
Academic Ignorance and Black Intelligence
The controversy over why children in the inner-city schools show such low educational achievement has been examined in several recent issues of The Atlantic. In the September, 1971, Atlantic, R. J. Herrnstein summarized the position of psychologists and others who believe that heredity is substantially more important than environment in determining intelligence, as measured by IQ tests. In its issue of December, 1971, The Atlantic published a number of letters (the correspondents included sociologists, anthropologists, economists, educators, and a few psychologists) taking issue with Professor Herrnstein’s article. Many of those who wrote maintained that environmental factors, rather than any genetic deficit, explain the poor performance of lower-class inner-city children.
The Weapons Debate
The Debt
Bridges
Out of Small-Town America
Provide, Provide!
Hemingway: The Posthumous Achievement
