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Download Issue a- THE WILSON QUARTERLY -- ummertime-and the listening is lively! Help keep your mind in shape this summer with thoughtful conversations on key international and domestic topics. Look for these upcoming programs in August on Dialogue: Week of July 31-August 06 "The Books of Anchee Min" Week of August 07-13 "Money Sings: The Changing Politics of Post-Soviet Urban Space" Week of August 14-20 "Her Excellency: America's Women Ambassadors" Week of August 21-27 "Theft of an Idol: Ethnicity, Communalism, and Violence in India" Week of August 28-September 03 "Stepfamilies and the Law" For stations and airtimes near you, contact: 202/287-3000 x325 (E-mail: [email protected]) from THE WOODROW WILSON CENTER FOR SCHOLARS Distributed by Public Radio International DIALOGUE, THE WOODROW WILSON CENTER, SUITE 704,901 D ST., SW WASHINGTON, DC 20024 SUMMER 1995 THE WILSON QUARTERLY Published by the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars 8 LEARNING FROM THE FIFTIES by Alan Ehrenhalt Many Americans long for the virtues of the 1950s-community, security, certainty. To retrieve them, they will have to reconsider their allegiance to other cherished values. 40 THECRISIS OF CONTEMPORARYSCIENCE Daniel J. Kevles David L. Goodstein J. Michael Bishop Science in America is in trouble. No longer assured of boundless federal support, scientists, our authors report, are also encountering redun- dancy in their ranks and hostility from a scientifically illiterate public. 30. The Death of Hume by Stephen Miller The philosopher's death in 1776 rekindled the debate, lasting to this day, over the link between morality and religion. 66. The Paradox of Yeltsin's Russia by S. Frederick Starr 100. From the Heart of the Heart Of the Former Yugoslavia by Ljiljana Smajlovic 114. How to Build a Suburb by Witold Rybczynski DEPARTMENTS 2. Editor's Comment 127. Periodicals 4. At Issue 154. Research Reports 74. Current Books 156. Commentary 94. Poetry 160. From the Center Cover: Elementary school students perform a daily ritual of the 1950s, pledging allegiance to the flag. Printed in the U.S.A. The views expressed herein are not necessarily those of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. USPS 346-670 AI',\ VOL. XIX NO. 3 TheWilson Quarterly (ISSN-0363-3276)is published in January (Winter),April (Spring),Jiily(Summer),and October (Autumn)by the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars at 901 D Street S.W., Suite 704, Washington, D.C. 20024. Indexed biennially. Subscriptions: one year, $24; two years, $43. Air mail outside U.S.: one near, $39; tzw wars, $73. Single copies mailed upon request: $7; outside U.S. and possessions, $8; selected back issues: $7, including postage and handling; outside P.O. Box 420406, Palm ~oast,"~~32142-0406. (subscriber hot line: 1-800-829-5108.)~ostmaster: Send all address changes to The Wilson ~uarterl;~.~.B& 420406, Palm Coast, FL 32143-0406. Microfilm copies are available from University Microfilms International, 300 North Zeeb Road, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48106. U.S. newsstand distribution by Eastern News Distributors, Inc., 2020 Superior Street, Saiidusky, Ohio 44870 (for information, call 1-800-221-3148). Editor: Jay Tolson Deputy Editor: Steven Lagerfeld Managing Editor: James H. Carman he Jefferson Lecture, sponsored annually by the Na- Senior Editor: Robert K. Landers tional Endowment for the Humanities, was delivered Literary Editor: James M. Morris this past May by the renowned architectural historian Associate Editor: Diantha Parker T Poetry Editor: Anthony Hecht Vincent Scully. It was a riveting master-class, alternately pas- sionate and witty, but many in the audience noted the piquant Copy Editor: Vincent Ercolano irony of the setting: the John F. Kennedy Center for the Per- Design Consultant: Tawney Harding forming Arts. The Center is a structure of formidable modernist Contributing Editors: Linda Colley, pretensions, and Scully's speech was, among other things, a Denis Donoghue, Max Holland, Walter devastating critique of the Modem Movement and its baleful Reich, Alan Ryan, Charles Townshend, influence on the fabric of American communities. Alan Wolfe, Bertram Wyatt-Brown Speaking with the self-deprecating wisdom of a lapsed Researchers: Genevieve E. Abravanel, modernist, Scully detailed the ways the great figures of the Jessica J. Cohen, Natalie C. Gill, movement, from Le Corbusier to Frank Lloyd Wright, elevated Robert G. Hargrove, Laura K. Smid originality above all concerns for physical and human context. Librarian: Zdenek V. David But as well as describing what the modernists did wrong, Editorial Advisers: K. Anthony Appiah, Scully pointed to the work of a younger generation of architects Mary B. 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