August 18, 1997

This issue examined the cultural and political landscape at the end of the 1990s. David Samuels reported on how the nation's intellectual elite were increasingly drawn to Hollywood rather than traditional centers of power, while David Frum questioned whether the era of perpetual economic abundance would continue. Matt Labash critiqued diversity initiatives in the military, and the magazine covered topics ranging from the Clinton administration's Middle East policy to tobacco regulation debates.