1. Social science and the citizen

   Departments Pages: 2 - 3

2. Defense without purpose

   • Harry G. Summers

   Vietnam As Unending Trauma Pages: 4 - 17

3. Distorting history

   • Gareth Porter

   Vietnam As Unending Trauma Pages: 18 - 22

4. Lessons yet to be learned

   • Thomas J. Bellows

   Vietnam As Unending Trauma Pages: 23 - 26

5. Ideological guerrillas

   • Franz Michael

   Vietnam As Unending Trauma Pages: 27 - 29

6. The open society at war

   • Robert A. Scalapino

   Vietnam As Unending Trauma Pages: 30 - 33

7. Inner-city woes

   • William Julius Wilson

   The Urban Underclass Pages: 34 - 34

8. Racial and class boundaries

   • Elijah Anderson

   The Urban Underclass Pages: 35 - 40

9. Caught in the web of change

   • John D. Kasarda

   The Urban Underclass Pages: 41 - 47

10. Slicing the political pie

    • Ira Katznelson

    The Urban Underclass Pages: 48 - 53

11. The managerial class and surplus population

    • William Darity

    The Urban Underclass Pages: 54 - 62

12. Liberal rhetoric and the welfare underclass

    • David Whitman

    The Urban Underclass Pages: 63 - 69

13. The feminization of ghetto poverty

    • Diana M. Pearce

    The Urban Underclass Pages: 70 - 74

14. Schooling the inner city

    • John U. Ogbu

    The Urban Underclass Pages: 75 - 79

15. Inner-city dislocations

    • William Julius Wilson

    The Urban Underclass Pages: 80 - 86

16. Vocabularies of elementary education

    • Bruno Bettelheim

    Interview Pages: 87 - 90

17. Varieties of Cons

    • Arthur Asa Berger

    Visual Essay Pages: 91 - 94

18. Silent knife: Cesarean section in the United States

    • Nancy Wainer Cohen
    • Lois J. Estner

    Special Feature Pages: 95 - 111

19. Social science books of the month

    Departments Pages: 112 - 112

20. Books in review

    • Nick Eberstadt
    • Abraham Edel
    • J. Bowyer Bell

    BookReview Pages: 112 - 125