July 1991
In This Issue
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Articles
Eating and Sleeping
The Three Ages of the Catholic Church
Love and Empire
Letters From the Lost Generation: Gerald and Sara Murphy and Friends
Letters From the Lost Generation: Gerald and Sara Murphy and Friends
Against a Peacock Sky
Iceland
The Puzzler
Word Histories
Etymologies derived from the files of the Dictionary of American Regional English
The July Almanac
Notes: Dear Me
The end of a beginning?
Europe: My Country, Right... Or What?
As regions of different countries seek to profit from a united Europe, nationalism seems an ever quainter notion
Southeast Asia: Brave New Singapore
Despite failures elsewhere in Asia, authoritarian capitalism is thriving in Lee Kuan Yew’s tiny fiefdom
What Is the National Interest?
For almost half a century U.S. foreign policy has been based on internationalism—on the assumption that the security and prosperity of every place on earth is vital to America’s own. Internationalism, the author argues, has entailed enormous risks and costs—more than we can continue to bear or need to pay—and offers scant promise of success. It is time, he argues, for a new foreign-policy blueprint—a stripped-down strategy whereby the United States looks out for itself and recognizes that building its own strength, not creating a perfect world, is the best guarantor of its safety and well-being
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Contributors
The Couple
Why the Gulf War Served the National Interest
Why the Gulf War Was Not in the National Interest
Poem in Blank Rhyme
What Happened to Tally
What his father had done wasn’t right, he knew that, but at least it was something of his own, an act he had thought out and had completed and had taken responsibility for
Ludwig Wittgenstein and Bertrand Russell
Urban Design
By plan and by chance, Seattle is both urban and livable—and very agreeable for visitors, too
