It is the idea that America is a corrupt and sinful nation that needs to be punished. Punitive liberalism fell out of favor in the 1980s, but crept back in the 1990s — and became a nasty ...

In The Last Supper: Art, Faith, Sex & Controversy in the 1980s (FSG, May), essayist Paul ... in-depth exploration of a turbulent time in American culture that seemed obsessed with secular freedom ...

In Latin America and sub-Saharan Africa, sustained growth proved elusive. If the wringing out of inflation and the global opening up of markets were expected to strengthen economic growth, most of the ...