Vol. 4, No. 34
May 24, 1999
Cover Story
'Star Wars' and Its Critics
By John Podhoretz
Also in This Issue
- The New China? What I Saw in Beijing — Ethan Gutmann
- A Crisis of the Regime — Aaron L. Friedberg, Arthur Waldron
This issue featured John Podhoretz's critical examination of the Star Wars film phenomenon. The magazine also devoted substantial coverage to China, with Ethan Gutmann reporting on his observations from Beijing and Aaron L. Friedberg and Arthur Waldron analyzing what they characterized as a crisis within the Chinese regime. These pieces reflected The Weekly Standard's engagement with both popular culture criticism and geopolitical developments in Asia during the late 1990s.