In this special section, what we offer is not a summation but the beginning of an assessment of what we have to learn from the King years and of where we are as a nation 30 years after King's death.

Dark Nature
Philip Yancey

The Baroness in the Crime Lab
Interview by Martin Wroe

Jesus in Mississippi Charles Marsh The civil-rights movement as theological drama. Amistad Gives African Americans Their Due Peter T. Chattaway Abolitionists fare less well. Colorblind Glenn C. Loury What's wrong with the conservative line on race.

Narcissism, American Style
Laurance Wieder

Poetry for Dummies
Frederica Mathewes-Green

In Brief
Letters
Stranger in a Strange Land
  The Reading Cult
Commentary
  • My Farrakhan Obsessions
  • Give Me a Word