Vol. 2, No. 46
August 4, 1997
Cover Story
Whole Math: A New Education Disaster
By Lynne Cheney
Also in This Issue
- Gingrich's Damaged GOP — Fred Barnes, Matthew Rees, The Editors
- Inside the Clinton Attack Machine — Thomas M. DeFrank & Thomas Galvin
- The End of the Academic Novel — J. Bottum
This issue examined education reform and conservative politics in mid-1997. Lynne Cheney criticized whole math curricula as a new educational disaster on the cover, while Fred Barnes and Matthew Rees assessed the state of Newt Gingrich's damaged Republican leadership following intra-party conflict. The magazine also investigated the Clinton administration's political attack apparatus in a major exposé by DeFrank and Galvin, alongside cultural criticism including J. Bottum's essay on the decline of the academic novel.