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FALL 2002
Volum e LXIX , Numb er 4
CONTENTS
OUR COUNTRY, OUR CULTURE CONFERENCE
INTRODUCTION
Jon Westling
Edith Kurzweil
INTELLECTUALS AND WRITERS THEN AND NOW
Norman Podhoretz: "Our" Country? "Our" Culture?
Sanford Pinsker: Intellectuals and Mass Culture
John Patrick Diggins: From Anxiety to Academy
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THE ASCENDANCE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
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Ray Kurzweil: The Acceleration of Technology
Gerald Weissmann: The Year of the Genome
James Collins: Physics Meets Biology
THE MEDIA AND OUR COUNTRY' S AGENDA
Hilton Kramer: Mainly about the
New York Times
Michael Meyers: The Influence of Giant Media
Edward Rothstein: Democracy and Its Discontents
WHAT HAPPENED TO THE ARTS?
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Jules Olitski: Barley Soup and Art-High and Low
Robert Brustein : The Four Horsemen of the Anti-Culture
Cynthia Ozick: On the Loss of Hierarchy
EUROPEAN/AMERICAN RELATIONS : WHO LEADS?
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David Pryce-Jones: View from Europe
Liah Greenfeld: The Parochialism of "Globalization"
Conor Cruise O'Brien: America Leads, but Will Europe Follow?
INDEX TO VOLUME LXIX
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