AROUND TOWN

Steven Hayward: Wither Liberal Education?
A review of the Pitzer College Bulletin, 1983-84


ESSAYS

W.B. Allen: The Great Mistake: Election '84
Presidential campaign analysis

James W. Muller: P.G. Wodehouse on the Women's Question

Michael Platt: Which Secondary Books Should I Read?
What to read to enhance—rather than confuse or obscure—the great primary texts of the western tradition


REVIEWS

The Editors: Deadly Habits
A review of Deadly Gambits: The Reagan Administration and the Stalemate in Nuclear Arms Control

John Alvis: Lincoln as Nihilist
A review of Lincoln: A Novel, by Gore Vidal

Kevin G. Long: Visions of Liberty
A review of Capitalism and a New Social Order: The Republican Vision of the 1790's

Ralph A. Rossum: . . . And Throw Away the Key
A review of Crime and Public Policy, edited by James Q. Wilson, and Criminal Justice Reform: A Blueprint, edited by Patrick B. McGuigan and Randall R. Rader

G.B. Tennyson: A Conjunction of Grammarians
A review of 14 books on words and writing


BOOKS AT A GLANCE

Wattenberg, The Good News is the Bad News is Wrong; Seabury & McDougall, The Grenada Papers; Barnett, Kandinsky at the Guggenheim


REDUCTIO AD ABSURDUM


FILMS IN BRIEF

A Soldier's Story; 2001: A Space Odyssey; Amadeus