| Correspondence | 2 |
| Editorials | 3 |
| Editor's notebook | 4 |
| Steinfels, Margaret O'Brien | |
| Rationing in Oregon | 5 |
| Higgins, Thomas | |
| Kugichagulia & kuumba | 6 |
| Marquez, Monica M | |
| World of faultlines | 8 |
| Hehir, J. Bryan | |
| Appalling, depressing, revolting | 9 |
| Garvey, John | |
| Let's start over | 11 |
| Murphy, P. Francis | |
| Be sure to read the fine print | 16 |
| Michel, Alexander Morgan Capron, Vicki | |
| Screen | 20 |
| Alleva, Richard | |
| Poetry | 21 |
| Nixon, John Jr. | |
| Media | 21 |
| McConnell, Frank | |
| BOOKS American Girl | 23 |
| McCarthy, Abigail | |
| Death without Weeping | 24 |
| Page, Joseph A. | |
| The Culture of Contentment | 25 |
| Lasch, Christopher | |
| Grant's Memoirs & Selected Letters/Memoirs of General | 26 |
| Weales, W.T. Sherman: Gerald | |
| The Idea of the University: | 28 |
| O'Brien, Dennis | |
| All the Pretty Horses: | 29 |
| Malin, Irving |
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