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Spain’s year of wonders

by John Midgley,

Government by consensus and a chance for democracy

Notes on fame

by John Lahr,

The machinery of celebrity provides the faith Americans seek

Washington’s world of style

by Tom Bethell,

Image has become an indispensable component of substance

Juxtapositions

by Brent C. Brolin,

America’s new strategy of containment

D??©tente does not preclude an activist role

Mr. Hayakawa goes to Washington

by S.I. (Samuel Ichiyé) Hayakawa,

On learning the legislative dance

Utopia in trouble

by Björn Kumm,

The problems of Sweden's superdevelopment

Writing on the party’s terms

by Charles Sawyer,

Establishing the boundaries of Czech intellectual life

The parable of the talents

by Benjamin Martin,

Liberal anxiety over the Bakke case is based on utopian visions

Hyperbole’s child

by A. Bartlett Giamatti,

An appreciation of Robert Lowell

by Hayden Carruth,

Flirting with guilt and tyranny

by Eric Larsen,

Succurrere vitae

by Joel Agee,

Mirages

by Annie Dillard,

Edward Penfield posters

by Harper’s Staff,

Environmentalism and the Leisure Class

by William Tucker,

The politician’s art

by Henry Fairlie,

The official avant-garde

by Sally Helgesen,

The road less traveled

by Erazim V. Kohák,

A Commonwealth’s Choice

by John Bartlow Martin,

The troublesome question of Puerto Rico’s independence

Meditations on the letter Z

by William Saroyan,

The Faded Laurel Crown

by Christopher Hitchens,

A Conspiracy of Silence

by Joseph Epstein,

The hammer and the sickle

by David Suter,

America’s innocence abroad

by T.D. Allman,

Giving Yale to Connecticut

by William F. (William Frank) Buckley,

Problems and precedents

by Peter Meyer,

Mexican transfer