January 1987
In This Issue
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Articles
The New Shape of American Politics
An analysis of the forces at work in both parties which have dramatically altered the political landscape over the past twenty years—how they brought Ronald Reagan to power and how they will influence the race to succeed him in 1988.
The 1929 Parallel
Will the stock market crash? History may not repeat itself, argues the author of The Great Crash, but the dynamics of speculation are remorselessly constant, and they, along with other ominous indicators, give no comfort to optimism
Living With Fallout
An American abroad in Chernobyl’s aftermath confronts the half-life of truth
The January Almanac
Notes: Marx's Carbuncles
East Asia: The Rice Plot
How rice farmers control Japan’s politics and distort its economic system
Washington: Vat Is a Bad Idea
The deficit crisis has put a national sales tax back on the public agenda. Herewith the case against it
Italy: Living With Fallout
An American abroad in Chernobyl’s aftermath confronts the half-life of truth
That Post-Modernism!
Contributors
Sunday in the Old Republic
A Farm at Raraba
Fred Astaire and Count Basie
The Bad Physician
Long Distance
Prayer to Sparrow in Two Seasons
The Symphonic Furtwängler
Fast Puff Pastry
The Eternal Worm
All the Food That's Fit to Eat
Robert Frost Himself
Falling Towards England
The Man Who Made the Devil Glad
Vavra's Cats
The Greek Generals Talk
Hodgepodge
Remaking America
Acrostic No. 18
The Puzzler
Word Watch
Here are a few of the words being tracked by the editors of The American Heritage Dictionary, published by Houghton Mifflin. A new word that exhibits sustained use over time may eventually make its way into the dictionary.
