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In an excellent analysis of the legal basis for the tragic American landscape printed in the September issue of Atlantic Monthly, James Howard Kunstler cites zoning codes as the source for our current civic discontent. Originally, zoning was a response to industrialization, a determination by the inhabitants of a town...

Author: By Joshua A. Kaufman, | Title: Zoning Degrades Society | 9/17/1996 | See Source »

This being an election year, Democrats and Republicans are highlighting their differences on the values front. (Does it take a village or just a family?) Still, much of the new moralism crosses party lines. Democracy's Discontent, the recent pro-virtue book by liberal scholar Michael Sandel, got a column...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CONVENTION '96: THE FALSE POLITICS OF VALUES | 9/9/1996 | See Source »

Beneath the energy and drama of his extremist life, though, discomfort began to gnaw at Leyden. For starters he was finding his social life to be cloyingly ingrown. "We usually stayed home to avoid contact with other races," Leyden explains. And as discontent seeped in, so did conflict. Leyden's...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CONFESSIONS OF A SKINHEAD | 8/19/1996 | See Source »

WASHINGTON, D.C.: Pat Buchanan will not be a part of next month's Republican National Convention program at the San Diego Convention Center. Buchanan, like the rest of Dole's primary challengers, had been offered the opportunity to address delegates and the nation via video presentation, and to appear with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Sidewalk Slugger | 7/30/1996 | See Source »

WASHINGTON, D.C.: Pat Buchanan will not be a part of next month's Republican National Convention program at the San Diego Convention Center. Buchanan, like the rest of Dole's primary challengers, had been offered the opportunity to address delegates and the nation via video presentation, and to appear with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Sidewalk Slugger | 7/29/1996 | See Source »

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