Spring 2005
ARTICLES
Roosevelt Redux
By Thomas N. Bethell
Robert M. Ball and the battle for Social Security
End Game
By Amitai Etzioni
The elderly are entitled to what they have earned
All About Eve By Cynthia Russett
What men have thought about women thinking
A Long Cold View of History By Donald Worster
How ice, worms, and dirt made us what we are today
Performance By Michelle Herman
Is there a genetic predisposition to sing on street corners?
Socrates’ Mistake By George Watson
The unexamined life is well worth living
A Standard Oil Childhood By Thomas H. Rogers
Oil refineries, sand dunes, and other objects of beauty and affection
The Big Roundup By Ted Gioia
John Lomax roamed the West, collecting classic songs from the cowboy era
ARTS
The Salome Factor By William Deresiewicz
How the sexualization of concert dance helped end a golden age
A Few Good Buildings By Stanley Abercrombie
Reading the obituaries of Philip Johnson
Miller’s Tale By Wendy Smith
The playwright’s public break with Broadway
POETRY
Invisible Things By Langdon Hammer
Thylias Moss and Charles Simic
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BOOKS
Leading Men
The Founding Fathers as culture heroes
By Anne Matthews
Reviews:
Intellectual property bazaar;
the best defense?
attack on the Bonus Army
By Siva Vaidhyanathan, James Webb, and Robert S. McElvaine
DEPARTMENTS
Editor's Note
Letter From Kiev
On Independence Square
By Adrian Karatnycky
Commonplace Book:
Catastrophe
Collected by André Bernard
Works in Progress
Atlanta bust;
rover, rover;
physics quiz;
digging poetry and a riverboat;
raising the roof;
got MLK?
The Reader Replies
Findings
Swept Away
By Adam Goodheart
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