Issue
May/June 1992, Volume 43, No.3
Featured Articles
Hoovergate
Author: Barton J. Bernstein
On the 20th anniversary of Watergate, a recently discovered diary reveals a similar conspiracy four decades earlier.
How America’s Health Care Fell Ill
Author: John Steele Gordon
As modern medicine has grown ever more powerful, our ways of providing it and paying for it have gotten ever-more-wasteful, unaffordable, and unfair. Here is an explanation and a possible first step toward a solution.
Indy
Author: J. M. Fenster
Every spring, 30,000,000 Americans watch the Indianapolis 500. It’s the nation’s premier racing event and the pinnacle of a glamorous, murderous epic that stretches back nearly a century.
The House of Many Layers
Author: Alexander O. Boulton
The Colonial Revival was born in a time of late-19th-century ferment, and, from then on, the style resurfaced every time Americans needed reassurance.
“Dear Beatrice Fairfax…“
Author: Lynne Olson
America’s first Miss Lonely hearts advised generations of anxious lovers in the newspaper column that started it all.
Facing Death
Author: John Updike
Our ancestors look gravely and steadily upon things that we cannot.