>..nPERSPECTIVEnVIEWSnRestoring Family Autonomy in Education 16nby Edwin G. WestnWhy Uncle Sam is no Uncle Buck.nFreedom and Morality by Leonard P. Liggio 22nHow the Total State undermines both familynand religion.nPresidents’ Hill by Kit Reed 25nA short story.nOPINIONSnInventing History by John Wauck 30nAllan Carison: The Swedish Experiment in FamilynPolitics: The Myrdals and the Interwar PopulationnCrisis. The success and failure of Sweden’s mostnfamous social engineers.nA Representative Man by Eugene D. Genovese 33nGlyde N. Wilson: Carolina Cavalier: The Lifenand Mind of James Johnston Pettigrew. On thenSouth’s least appreciated universal man.nA Niagara of Print by Theodore Pappas 36nJan Cohn: Creating America: George HoracenLorimer and the Saturday Evening Post. Fornfour decades the voice of rural, small-town,nmiddle-class America.nREVIEWSnDisturbing the Nest is highly readable sociology,nsays Allan Carlson • Vineland is minor Pynchon,nwrites Gregory McNamee • J.O. Tatenpraises the new biography of Herbert von Karajann• Florence King finds Christopher Hitchens’nBlood, Class, and Nostalgia surprisinglynentertaining • James Tuttleton recommendsnthe new biography of Randall Jarrell •nChilton Williamson applauds the storytelling ofnTony Hillerman • Martin and Ruthe Battes-nChroniclesnA MAGAZINE OF AMERICAN CULTUREnThe Facts of Life by Thomas FlemingnMoral regulation — a sure sign of state despotism.n39n12ntin’s Henry Fielding will become the definitivenwork on this man, predicts Russell KirknCORRESPONDENCE -nLetter From Cincinnati:nStranger in Paradisenby Janet Scott BarlownLetter From the Lower Right:nIn This Corner . . .nby John Shelton ReednVITAL SIGNSnThe Myth of the Homeless Familynby Dan McMurrynAlone Among Strangers: Abortion andnParental Consentnby Anne Marie MorgannDick Tracy and the Bad Guysnby David R. SlavittnrrPA PT/i ris-iTCnL>Lr AK1 MLIN 1 onPOLEMICS & EXCHANGESnCULTURAL REVOLUTIONSnPRINCIPALITIES & POWERSnby Samuel FrancisnPOETRYnMusselsnby William M. GalbraithnThe Education of Henry Adamsnby Harold McCurdynThe Life Fittingnby Dick AllennCover illustration by Anna Mycek-Wodecki.nnn46n49n52n54n56n4n5n10n15n21n32nOCTOBER 1990/3n