The late Curtis Cate was the author of The Ides of August, devoted to the Berlin Wall crisis of 1961.
ARTICLES BY THIS CONTRIBUTOR: A No-Longer-Broken City Down to Earth—With a Thud! The Right to Blaspheme? Dynamic Paralysis How Cosmopolitan Can One Become? A Hydra With Two Heads Farewell to Indolence? Stakhanovism in Reverse Military Unintelligence Gigantic Weaknesses Islam in France Gigantic in Everything Monumental in Everything A Sentimental Return How Anti-American Are the French? The Tarantulas Mad Cow Madness Ethnicity as a Way of Life Exhibitionism as a Way of Life Europe's Kulturstadt for 1999 Illusion and Reality, Then and Now Letter From Paris: Diana—Goddess of Illusion The Revolt of the French Masses Germans in the Dock With the Nietzscheans of Naumburg Bulldozing into Trouble The Eunuchs of Yugoslavia Grasshoppers and Ants François Mitterrand: Metternich or Gladstone? There's No Stopping Progress The Grand Illusion More Verbal Panache Than Military Muscle Two Triumphs of 'Mediacracy' History Returning at a Gallop Modern Pyramids and Ancient Squares Socialist Nostalgia Just How Monarchical is Monsieur Mitterrand? But Why the "Red Flag" of Revolution? A Visual Atrocity Twenty Years After the Invasion of Czechoslovakia