Today's date:
 
Spring 1996


TABLE OF CONTENTS:

Comment:

Socialism's Fate Awaits the Welfare State


The East Is Red Again (Kind Of):

Back in the USSR GENNADY ZYUGANOV
Stop the War, Set Up a Safety Net GRIGORY YAVLINSKY
Please, Don't Panic YEVGENY YEVTUSHENKO
MTV, NATO and Postcommunism in Poland ALEKSANDR KWASNIEWSKI
The Czech Exception VACLAV KLAUS

Wages, Work and Welfare Under Siege:

Can 19th Century Capitalism Work in 2013? LESTER C. THUROW
Secession of the Successful ROBERT REICH
Ghosts of the ATM Machine ROBERT HEILBRONER
Don't Worry, Expect Less ROBERT SAMUELSON
Elderly Entitlements Made the Middle Class WALTER RUSSELL MEAD
Lower Wages Will Mean More Work for Germany HORST SIEBERT
France: A Welfare State Living Beyond Its Means DOMINIQUE MOISI

Redeploying Employment, Redesigning the Safety Net:

Placeless Work in the 21st Century WILLIAM KNOKE
Escaping the Jobless Productivity Trap HAZEL HENDERSON
More Workers + Fewer Hours = Higher Productivity TIBOR SCITOVSKY
Economic Security for a Flexible Society BILL BRADLEY

At Century's End:

God's Next Life JACK MILES
The Last Sigh of Diversity SALMAN RUSHDIE

Collage of Comment:

The Circle of Rivers GABER ASFOUR
Islam: The Postman of Civilization HARIS SILAJDZIC
An Egyptian Renaissance LOTFI KHOULI, NAGUIB MAHFOUZ

As the World Turns:

Broken Peaces: Ireland, Israel and Bosnia BERNADETTE DEVLIN MCALISKEY, AMOS OZ, RICHARD HOLBROOKE
Singapore: Post Liberal City of the Future NATHAN GARDELS

Just Think...

Educate the Leaders, Not just the Workers STANLEY K. SHEINBAUM