February 23, 1998

This issue featured a major cover story by Alan Jacobs on Alexander Solzhenitsyn's moral philosophy and life in the gulag. The magazine also examined contemporary American politics through several lenses, including David Brooks on women critics of Bill Clinton, David Frum on sex and public virtue, and Carl M. Cannon's profile of Sidney Blumenthal as the chief White House conspiracy theorist. Additional coverage included Hannah Arendt's intellectual legacy, PBS's reassessment of Ronald Reagan, and analyses of Clinton administration figures and congressional skepticism toward the president's Iraq policy.