February 18, 1991 Issue, THE NEW REPUBLIC

- Correspondence, pp. 2-3
  Dylan's strange absence, McCarthy's nasty tactics, etc.
- TRB: Dink Stover At War
  Michael Kinsley
  , p. 4
  What's all this about Bush's WASP values?
- The Derisory Tower
  The Editors
  , p. 5
  The most subversive force in our society is the idea of the university. A radical defen...
- Notebook
  The Editors
  , pp. 6-7
  War critics' new complaint, revenge of the Kurds, etc.
- No Vietnam
  Paul Starr
  , pp. 8-9
  A liberal makes the case for total victory over Iraq
- Ad Nauseum
  James Workman
  , pp. 10-11
  Coverage of the Gulf War is grossing advertisers out
- Blood Soccer
  John Carlin
  , pp. 12-13
  Stompie wasn't Mrs. Mandela's only victim
- Desert Rat
  Michael Kelly
  , pp. 14-17
  Jordan's King Hussein: a team player he ain't
- Only Correct
  Ken Emerson
  , p. 18
  Banning free speech at the University of Wisconsin
- Hate Mail
  Jeff Rosen
  , pp. 19-21
  Yale Law School vs. the First Amendment
- Thin Skins
  Jacob Weisberg
  , pp. 22-23
  Oberlin students' long, wacky search for 'racism'
- Get Back
  Stephen R. Barnett
  , pp. 24-25
  Berkeley's plantation for minority scholars
- In the Mix
  Jim Sleeper
  , pp. 26-27
  Surprising racial harmony at New York's City Colletge
- Psyched Out
  Tamar Jacoby
  , pp. 28-29
  Black students in a seminar on race relations
- Sins of Admission
  Dinesh D'Souza
  , pp. 30-31
  The trauma of affirmative action on campus
- Mea Culpa
  Richard Blow
  , pp. 32-33
  World's most politically incorrect human speaks
- The Cult of Multiculturalism
  Fred Siegel
  , pp. 34-38
  What seems at first to be an affirmation of pluralism is actually the reverse
- Ugh! Oops
  Fred Siegel
  , p. 39
  A lexicon of P.C. no-nos
- The Value of the Canon
  Irving Howe
  , pp. 40-47
  The attack on the corpus of the Western literary tradition by the 'cultural left' isn't...
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  On Films: Gluttons for Punishment (2 Reviews)
  Stanley Kauffmann
  , p. 48
  The Silence of the Lambs (1991 Film), by Jonathan Demme
  1. The Silence of the Lambs (1991 Film) by Jonathan Demme
  2. Heaven and Earth (1991 Film) by Haruki Kadokawa
- On Theater: As the Globe Turns
  Robert Brustein
  , pp. 49-52
  Multiculturalism has a powerful friend in The Boston Globe and its campaign against ser...
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  Destiny Is Anatomy (Review)
  Katharine Park and Robert A. Nye
  , pp. 53-56
  Making Sex, by Thomas Laqueur
  1. Making Sex by Thomas Laqueur
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  Beyond Sentimentality (Review)
  Christopher Lasch
  , pp. 57-60
  Feminism Without Illusions, by Elizabeth Fox-Genovese
  1. Feminism Without Illusions by Elizabeth Fox-Genovese
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  The Generals in the Labyrinth (4 Reviews)
  Alfred Kazin
  , p. 61
  Ulysses S. Grant: Memoirs and Selected Letters, by Mary D. McFeely, William S. McFeely,...
  1. Ulysses S. Grant: Memoirs and Selected Letters by Mary D. McFeely, William S. McFeely, and Ulysses S. Grant, ...
  2. The Memoirs of General W.T. Sherman by Charles Royster and William Tecumseh Sherman
  3. Fighting for the Confederacy by Gary W. Gallagher and Edward Porter Alexander #2, ...
  4. The Civil War: An Illustrated History by Geoffrey C. Ward, Ric Burns, and Ken Burns
- Gospel of Declarations by John the Theologian
  Willis Barnstone
  , pp. 62-65
- Nantucket Diarist: No Man Is An Island
  Robert Wright
  , pp. 66-68
  The war from afar
- Cover painting
  Jack Pardue