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February/March 1996

Time for a Wealth Tax?

Responses to Richard Flacks’ “Reflections on Strategy in a Dark Time.” Also: Edward Wolff asks, “Time for a Wealth Tax?” Rose Ryan on an abusive relationship, Alan Stone on Sense and Sensibility, Nguyen Ba Chung on Vietnamese poetry, reviews of Lucie Brock-Broido and Mario Vargas-Llosa, and more.

Time for a Wealth Tax?
Edward N. Wolff

Replies to Richard Flacks’ “Reflections on Strategy in a Dark Time”
John Walsh, Jeremy Brecher, Robert J. S. Ross, Frances Fox Piven, Archon Fung, Penn Loh, & Dara O’Rourke, Janice Fine, Colin Greer, Ronnie Dugger, Harry C. Boyte & Nancy N. Kari, Norm Fruchter, Charlotte Ryan & William A. Gamson, Danny Schechter, and Joel Rogers. Richard Flacks replies.

The Memory of New England
Donald Revell

Concord
Donald Revell

How I Remember Him
Rose Ryan

Imagining the Nation
Nguyen Ba Chung

Sense and Sensibility
Alan A. Stone

Poet’s Sampler
Elizabeth Spires introduces A. V. Christie

Poetry Reviews

The Master Letters by Lucie Brock-Broido
Bonnie Costello

Poems Collected and New by Denis Johnson
Karen Volkman

Alcools: Poems By Guillaume Apollonaire translated by Donald Revell
Marjorie Perloff

Fiction Reviews

Morality Play by Barry Unsworth
Marc Romano

Death in the Andes by Mario Vargas-Llosa
Joseph Lease

Jackson’s Dilemma by Iris Murdoch
Molly McQuade

Miss Molly Rockin’ in the House of Blue Light
Maureen Seaton

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