| LETTERS | 1 |
| TILTING AT WINDMILLS | 6 |
| Peters, Charles | |
| RALPH NADER RECONSIDERED | 12 |
| Rowe, Jonathan | |
| WHO'S WHO in the Administration | 21 |
| 15th Annual Book Award | 24 |
| A History Lesson for the Professors | 25 |
| Fallows, James | |
| Why Star Wars Is Not Like the Manhattan Project | 32 |
| TIERNEY, JOHN | |
| MEMO OF THE MONTH | 37 |
| The Case for Brotherhood | 39 |
| Alter, Jonathan | |
| Machine Dreams: Retooling Fiction | 42 |
| McGowan, William | |
| POLITICAL PUZZLE | 47 |
| The Cigarette Companies: How They Get Away With Murder, Part II | 48 |
| OWEN, DAVID | |
| Son of the Marlboro Man | 51 |
| Rosenthal, James | |
| JOURNALISM AWARD | 53 |
| TIDBITS AND OUTRAGES | 55 |
| POLITICAL BOOKNOTES | 56 |
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