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Comments on several issues relevant to American politics and society in 1990. Act of moral cowardice and vicious hatred charged against the Dartmouth Review; Clarification that Newt Gingrich's critical remarks in a memorandum quoted in "The Washington Times," in October 1990 issue were not aimed at Democrats participating in the budget talks in the country; Evidence that the editors of the paper included the Hitler quotation intentionally.

Focuses on developments related to economics and politics. Dow-Jones average of industrial stocks; Ratio of stock prices to yields; New York Stock Market paper values; Urgency of unemployment and unused plant capacity; Reasons for stock market decline; Attention given to Canadian elections; Clamor from labor leaders and advice from academic economists; Importance of stock market correction.

Comments on crime and the peace and order situation in Chicago, Illinois. Social environment to which the prevalence of major crimes of violence is attributed to; Socialization of crime as a recognized adjunct to business and more than an occasional feature of home life; Implications on criminology and social sciences.

Presents letters to the editors concerning politics and socioeconomics in the U.S. Support for replacing the paper dollar with a coin for silver mining interests; Failure of the Susan B. Anthony dollar; Need for national referendum on the dollar coin; Need for appropriate laws to prevent child abuse; Similarities and differences between post-modernism and pragmatism; Texas Governor Ann Richards comments on President George Bush; Emphasis of the American culture on youth.

Comments on the meeting of the scholars in the U.S. Gathering of the social science groups in Chicago; Publication of the minutes of the events by the societies; Importance of knowing how the truth transpires; Announcement at the meeting of the British Royal Astronomical Society about the prediction of the German mathematician, Albert Einstein; Experimental checks on the Einstein theory; Human aspects of the learned society.

Contemplates life and culture during the Victorian age and life during the early 20th century. Conventions observed in the Victorian era; Decline of the era of royalty; Influence of mass media over modern society; Challenges to understanding the last great age; Social changes affecting human behavior.

Presents letters to the editor concerning politics in the U.S. Misinformation acquired by the Central Intelligence Agency with regards to Cuba; Malaise of American liberalism according to Gerald Johnson; Underlying problems of the trade issue as it affects the continued free world leadership of the United States and as it affects our domestic economy; Critical judgments of Frank Getlein and who are less than enthusiastic about Abstract-Expressionism.

Argues that President George W. Bush's distrust of expert staffers in various departments has brought disastrous results. Conservative hostility towards social-scientific methods that protect analysts from political pressure; Prohibition of Defense Department officials from participating in interagency planning for the reconstruction of Iraq; Methodology which led the administration to overrule the CIA's doubts over whether Iraqi agents had tried to buy Nigerian yellowcake.

Comments on several issues relevant to society and the conduct of life in the U.S. Skiing; Dating games on television; Prediction by popular songs and news magazines of economic recession via decreased consumer optimism and spending.

Focuses on the issue of disparagement of liberalism, which is a recurring feature of Western political culture. Opinion of German philosopher Martin Heidegger on liberalism; Observation that attacks on modernity were largely replaced by attacks on liberalism; Reference to various books on liberalism including "Knowledge and Politics," by Roberto Unger and "Liberalism and the Limits of Justice," by Michael Sandel. INSET: COME BACK by Rob Wilson..

Discusses the socio-political conditions in Nicaragua. Information on the ending of the 45-year reign of the Somoza family and its National Guard with the help of Sandinista National Liberation Front backed by a popular insurrection; Comments on the deteriorating political situation in Nicaragua; Description of the government's foreign policy; View that Nicaraguans are threading their way through the maze caused by the juxtaposition of conflicting ideological abstractions; Information on the hierarchy of administrative control in Nicaragua; Discussion on the judiciary system and the freedom of press in the state.

Presents several newspaper clippings related to politics.

Lists several books on politics. "Is America Safe for Democracy?" by William McDougall; "The Anglo-American Future," by A.J. Gardiner; "The Wreck," by Rabindranath Tagore; "Orphan Dinah," by Eden Phillpotts; "Books on the Table," by Edmund Gosse.

Presents a letter to the editor about the proposed school of Social Research.

Focuses on developments related to economics and world politics. Japanese Association of Tokyo's meeting to commemorate the outbreak of the China Incident; Pack between Russia and the United States to prevent war; Progress of the Dominican Republic.

Introduces several books related to philosophy. "Problems of Ethics," by Moritz Schlick; "The Foundations of the Theory of Signs," by C. W. Morris; "The Principles of the Theory of Probability," by Ernest Nagel and "The Heritage of Kant," edited by G. T. Whitney and D. F. Bowers.

Comments on political and socio-economic issues. Adoption of a new Constitution which reserves to the government the ownership of natural resources; Rejection of the report of a majority of the Tariff Commission recommending that the tariff on sugar be reduced by about half a cent a pound by U.S. President Calvin Coolidge; Dissatisfaction with the basis of indemnification for property taken under the agrarian or mining clauses of the New Mexican Constitution.

Comments on the importance of social science and culture in the U.S. Determination of the simpler class of people; Role of social scientist in promoting unselfishness, municipal organization or public welfare; Contribution of religion and poetry on the perfection of the quality of men's living; Significance of culture to heighten the sense of antiphonal radiance; Determination of the sociological writing toward a mechanistic style.

Discusses the social conditions that are prevalent in the U.S. Focus on the attitude of cultivating a refined sensibility or of losing oneself in abstruse intellectual pursuits; Domination of salesmen and brokers in the U.S.; Discussion of the development of America that has taken place inside the bourgeois psychology; Comments on works by certain American authors; Discussion of American intelligentsia including scientists, philosophers, artists, and engineers.

Comments on issues relevant to politics in the United States compiled for the week of October 17, 1928. Significance of the back-door policy of President Edgar Hoover on Muscle Shoals; Suggestion by Cuban President Machado to repeal the Platt Amendment which gives the United States the right to control the country's foreign relations.

Comments on political and social issues in the U.S. Formal withdrawal by William G. McAdoo of his candidacy for the Democratic presidential nomination; Implication of the improved chance of Governor Alfred Smith for the nomination on progressive politics; List of the planks of the political platform for the progressives in the next Congress issued by Senator Nye of North Dakota.

Focuses on the book "The Mind of Primitive Man," by Franz Boes. Information on difficulty for the evaluator in evaluating the book. Information on the introduction of the book in the market in 1911; Formulation of revolutionary thesis by Boes; Development of the aboriginal population and their activities; Demonstration of mix of races and sub-races and that their instability; Explanation for differences in customs and religions in the book; Effect of the book on the author's contemporaries outside the immediate circle; Views of Boes about liberation from antiquated methods of approach; Enunciation of new methodology to be used in the obtaining and understanding of ethnological data, by the book; Opinion of Boes on conditioning factors; Focus on the problems of societal stability and change; Approach of Boes to data of ethnology; Neutralization of the facts found by Boes by fact that his method of approach prevented him from understanding; Focus on the approach of the book being philosophical-psychological one.

Focuses on various socio-political developments from around the world. Aspects of the liquor problem which presents the irrepressible conflict between desire for profit on the part of the seller and the welfare of the community; Discusses the U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt's monetary policy to overcome national crisis; Information on new series of trials in the Scottsboro case on a question of justice to Negroes charged with a serious crime; Announcement of different job-producing programs by German dictator Adolf Hitler during the ten months of his Chancellorship.

Presents letters to the editor concerning politics in the United States. Description of large corporations; Economics of small business; Management of socialized corporations; Capital gains from stock ownership; Acquittal of eight national guardsmen on charges of violating civil rights of Kent State University students; Food price problems; Rise and decline of protest movements; Benefits from protest movements.

Focuses on developments related to politics and socioeconomic issues. Support of archbishop Desmond Tutu for the Palestinian cause; Equating of the occupation of Gaza and West Bank with apartheid; Publication of Nicolae Ceausescu's comments praising Joseph Stalin; Issues facing the gubernatorial candidates of Ohio; Abortion position of the gubernatorial candidates; Advice given by Gary Bauer to a conference of young conservatives; Leak of the story about the "Achille Lauro".

Explains the modern conception of liberty known as liberty of liberalism and its significance to culture. Components of liberalism; Practice of the idealism in liberal countries; Traditions removed with this kind of liberalism; Triumph of the individual over society called culture; Liberalism required by culture; Culture's absence of ulterior purpose and forced unity; Moral side of culture; Decline of liberalism and culture during war; Proportionality of the rightness of liberalism to the diversity of human nature.

Presents the author's experiences in Paris, France, during the war. Description of city life and local folk; Impact of the war on Paris; Implications on city life and society.

Comments on the internal struggle for political power in Ireland. Factions involved in the struggle for power; Efforts for unification; Implications for politics and government.

Presents opinions of book writer and critic Oliver Allston on human nature. Opinion of Allston on queer things associated with other people; Perspective of Allston of the effect of vogue of psychology on the sense of character by people of modern age; View of Allston on who determines the value of civilization; Reaction of Allston as a result of portrayal of indifference from other people on the study of character; Comments of Allston of religious denominations.

Examines the condition of the political influence of Mexican Americans in the Southwest of the U.S. Revelation of the lack of the Mexican's political participation in government despite having the second to the largest minority community;Observation of the absence of elected Chicano government officials in any U.S. city; Efforts of the federal government in 1967 and 1969 to correct the neglect of the Mexican American affairs; Formation of an independent political party "La Raza Unida" by Jose Angel Gutierrez to introduce Mexican nationalism into practical politics.

Presents letters to the editors referencing articles and topics discussed. Trend of the changing civilization and the problems concurrent with its growth; Criticism on the book "Lady Chatterley's Lover"; Strike of the employees of cotton mill Marion Manufacturing Company when the company refuse to lower the work hours of employees. .

Presents information on various socio-political and economic developments from around the world. Intervention of the U.S. in Mexican revolution; Description of famine in China; Decision of the General Electric Co., of England, to allow only British subjects to subscribe to a proposed new issue of 1,600,00 shares of common stock; Information on the New York Telephone Co.'s decision to charge more for its excellent services; Details of work on business cycles of the National Bureau of Economic Research.

Presents letters to the editor referencing articles and topics published in previous issues. Analyses the progress of Communism towards its goal in the last 50 years; Analysis of the contribution of Wilfredo Pareto to sociology; Concern over the fate of writers and artists in Germany under the Fascist regime; Information regarding the U.S. poet Sidney Lanier.

Presents letters to the editor concerning politics. Tax relief from the Energy Tax and Individual Relief Act of 1974; Bad publicity on the Irish Republican Army (IRA) terrorism; Jewish population of Palestine; Key to war and peace in the Middle East; Diversion of relief funds to arms buying by the IRA.

Presents letters to the editor on articles ad topics discussed ion previous issues. Comment on the irony associated with first endorsing a person and then lambasting him in connection with the article "Dukakis for President," published in the November 7, 1988 issue; Insight into the article "The Community Trap," by Stephen Holmes in the November 28, 1988 issue, on the philosophical attack on liberalism.

The article focuses on the U.S. foreign policy. The American spirit is hardening in world affairs, although we have played the role of leading power for just ten years. it is part of the trend away from a ceases less renewal and reaffirmation of our values and toward a servile and sterile worship of institutions and the status quo that frightened the men who edited this magazine 35 years ago. This trend is conservatism. It can be overcome only if it is brought into the open and countered in the arena of debate by positive and vigorous liberalism. Unless that clear choice is presented to the American people the functioning of the democratic process, through which democracy thrives, is atrophied.

Discusses the social aspects of the use of drugs in the U.S. Favorable effect of drugs on the motility of man when used in moderation; Assertion that the most typical and most desired effect of drugs is the sense of self-motion; Lack of defense against the holocaustic uses of drugs in the market; Claim that the use of drugs lessens life.

Focuses on the occupation of being a professional understander (PU). Role of the PU to be an efficiency expert on women; Need for the PU to know and understand how a contemporary woman's mentality and behavior works; Focus on the efforts of E. Percival Peters as a women movement interpreter; Ability of Peters to lecture and expound on various topics about women and their relationships with men; Inclination of Peters to classify women in several categories; Importance of indexing and cataloging the classification of women.

Presents multiple letters to the editor highlighting socio-political issues of the United States. Focus on reader's observation; Admiration for U.S. senator; Suggestion of a reader.

Focuses on the United States Senate's adoption of a system of cloture rule. Exercise of the privilege of unlimited debate; Opinion of the public on unlimited debate; Occurrence of filibustering in spite of the restrictions; Delay of the passage of the padded Public Buildings bill; Introduction of thousands of bills covering minor administrative matters; Plans for the implementation of the cloture rule; Pressure of militant public opinion.

Focuses on the first three weeks of the Seventieth Congress in the U.S. Voting out of two Senators-elect; Constitutionality of the Senate action; Reasons for losing the seat in the Senate.

Presents letters to the editor referencing articles and topics discussed. “Penalties of the Sacco-Vanzetti Execution” which explores the opposition against the penalties given to convicted criminals Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti; Conduction of Civil Service examination for the posittion of technical editor; Denial of the full rights as American citizen to Negroes in Massachusetts.

Focuses on the utilization of hostile elements in military science and politics. Formation of the Bolshevik Party; Creation of impression that the trials are frame-up.

Presents information on the consequences of resumption of diplomatic relations between the United States and the Soviet Union. Discussion of the terms of the settlement which seem to be just; Effect of the resumption of relations upon the world peace situation; Description of factors which will lead to a tremendous increase in Russo-American trade in the immediate future.