| LETTERS | 1 |
| Tilting at Windmills | 6 |
| Peters, Charles | |
| Saving the Underclass | 12 |
| Murray, Ken Auletta interviews Charles | |
| How Welfare Can Work | 17 |
| Bernick, Michael | |
| Refund? What Refund? Why the IRS is Screwing Up | 23 |
| Barrett, Paul M | |
| MEMO OF THE MONTH | 29 |
| POLITICAL PUZZLE | 32 |
| Put the Politics Back Into Political Science | 33 |
| Waldman, Steven | |
| TIDBITS AND OUTRAGES | 38 |
| Challenge to the Church: Make Capitalism Moral | 39 |
| Nocera, Joseph | |
| MONTHLY JOURNALISM AWARD | 43 |
| WHO'S WHO | 49 |
| The Scars of Busing | 50 |
| Lemann, Nicholas | |
| POLITICAL BOOKNOTES | 54 |
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