Table of Contents

Volume 32, Number 3 · February 28, 1985

Murray Kempton, The Wind that Blew in Reagan

The New Politics of Inequality by Thomas Byrne Edsall

Michael Wood, The Backlands Rebellion

The War of the End of the World by Mario Vargas Llosa, translated by Helen R. Lane

Conor Cruise O'Brien, Wishful Thinking

The British Empire in the Middle East, 1945–1951: Arab Nationalism, The United States, and Postwar Imperialism by William Roger Louis

Ronald Syme, Caesar: Drama, Legend, History

Clifford Geertz, The Ultimate Ghetto

The Last Arab Jews: The Communities of Jerba, Tunisia by Abraham L. Udovitch, by Lucette Valensi

Oliver Sacks, The Twins

Oliver Sacks, The Twins and Modular Arithmetic

Arthur Berger, Success Story

Copland: 1900 Through 1942 by Aaron Copland, by Vivian Perlis

Brad Leithauser, An Actor Plays a Trumpet (poem)

Michael Scammell, Chameleon

Ilya Ehrenburg: Revolutionary, Novelist, Poet, War Correspondent, Propagandist—The Extraordinary Epic of a Russian Survivor material by by Anatol Goldberg, with an introduction, postscript, and additional Erik de Mauny

Gordon S. Wood, Hellfire Politics

The Lost Soul of American Politics: Virtue, Self-Interest, and the Foundations of Liberalism by John Patrick Diggins

Peter Burke, Good Witches

The Night Battles: Witchcraft and Agrarian Cults in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries by Carlo Ginzburg, translated by John Tedeschi, by Anne Tedeschi

La sorcière de Jasmin by Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie

Christopher Ricks, The Case of the Crooked Bookman

An Enquiry into the Nature of Certain Nineteenth Century Pamphlets (2d Edition) by John Carter, by Graham Pollard, edited by Nicolas Barker, by John Collins

A Sequel to 'An Enquiry': The Forgeries of H. Buxton Forman and T.J. Wise Re-examined by Nicolas Barker, by John Collins

Edwin Frank, Snake Train (poem)

Andrew Hacker, 'Welfare': The Future of an Illusion

The Economic Illusion: False Choices Between Prosperity and Social Justice by Robert Kuttner

Capitalism and the Welfare State: Dilemmas of Social Benevolence by Neil Gilbert

Kate Quinton's Days by Susan Sheehan

Selective Nontreatment of Handicapped Newborns: Moral Dilemmas in Neonatal Medicine by Robert F. Weir

What Is a Wife Worth? by Michael H. Minton, with Jean Libman Block

Demographic and Socioeconomic Aspects of Aging in the United States Bureau of the Census, US Department of Commerce (Series P-23, No. 138)

Catholic Social Teaching and the US Economy US Bishops Ad Hoc Committee

Philip S. Holzman, Mortimer Ostow, Donald P. Spence, et al. Talking to the Analyst: An Exchange

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Letters

Derek Freeman, Evolving Margaret Mead
Nathan Tarcov, Evolving Margaret Mead
Jane Howard, Stephen Toulmin, Evolving Margaret Mead
Israel Shahak, Hugh Trevor-Roper, Richelieu & Olivares

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Contributors

Edwin Frank is the editor of NYRB Classics.

Clifford Geertz is Professor Emeritus at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. He is the author of, among other works, The Social History of an Indonesian Town and Negara: The Balinese State in the Nineteenth Century. (March 2006)

Andrew Hacker teaches political science at Queens College. He is currently writing a book on higher education in collaboration with Claudia Dreifus. (September 2008)

Murray Kempton (1917-1997) was a columnist for Newsday, as well as a regular contributor to The New York Review of Books. His books include Rebellions, Perversities, and Main Events and The Briar Patch, as well as Part of Our Time. He won the Pulitzer Prize in 1985.

Brad Leithauser is a novelist, poet, and essayist. He lives in Massachusetts.

Conor Cruise O'Brien's many books include God Land: Reflections on Religion and Nationalism and The Long Affair: Thomas Jefferson and the French Revolution. His Memoir: My Life and Themes will be published in the US in May. (December 2000)

Christopher Ricks is William M. and Sara B. Warren Professor of the Humanities and Co-Director of the Editorial Institute at Boston University, and Professor of Poetry at Oxford. His most recent book is Dylan’s Visions of Sin. (March 2008)

Oliver Sacks is a physician and the author of ten books, including The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, Awakenings, An Anthropologist on Mars, and, most recently, Musicophilia. He lives in New York City, where he is University Artist and Professor of Neurology and Psychiatry at Columbia University.

Michael Scammell is Professor of Writing and Translation at Columbia. He is the author of Solzhenitsyn: A Biography, and has just completed a biography of Arthur Koestler. (November 2005)

Gordon Wood is the Alva O. Way University Professor and Professor of History at Brown. A collection of his essays, The Purpose of the Past: Reflections on the Uses of History, was published in March. (May 2008)

Michael Wood is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Princeton. His most recent book is Literature and the Taste of Knowledge. (April 2008)

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