The Meridian Archive
MER
May 1992
The End of History

The End of History

Closed mid-April 1992 · On stands late April 1992

The Front

Index of the Quarter

Numbers of the spring lists — weeks on the bestseller charts, argument books published, rebuttals commissioned

The Essay

The End of History

Francis Fukuyama's The End of History and the Last Man, published this year by Free Press, and the argument's reception a year after the essay that preceded it

The Foreign File

The Stringer's Notebook

A season of dispatches assembled into a short, discursive column

The Feature Well

The Landlord's Ledger

A profile of a mid-size property manager navigating the spring rent rolls in a Sun Belt apartment market

The City

Subject: A morning at a Village stoop sale, the spring circuit

The Back

Books: A roundup of the year's bestselling political nonfiction — five titles in one paragraph each, Rush Limbaugh's The Way Things Ought to Be, now 24 weeks on the list, among them, unsigned, no author interview · Art: A Texas museum's spring loan show, the crowds arriving by chartered bus from three states · Film: The season's pictures, briefly, and a leading man's second act as a producer with his own money on the table