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Letters to the Editor The Forgotten Millions Communism is the deadliest fantasy in human history (but does anyone care?) by Jonathan Rauch A Stepford for Our Times To work as social satire today, a remake of The Stepford Wives should be as much about perfecting children as about perfecting wives by Margaret Talbot BRIEF LIVES: Abizaid of Arabia General John Abizaid has driven big changes in the American military. Now, as he commands U.S. forces in the Middle East, his ideas are being put to the test by Sydney J. Freedberg Jr. POST MORTEM: The Crucible of Hollywood's Guilt Elia Kazan (1909-2003) by Mark Steyn Primary Sources The White House's environmental "science"; how to make Iraq more like Kosovo; the dubious constituency of anti-globalization protesters; Kansas versus a pancake (Kansas wins) THE WORLD IN NUMBERS: Nuclear Iran by Terrence Henry Tour of Duty Senator John F. Kerry often cites his service in Vietnam as a formative element of his character. A new account of his time there—based on interviews with those who knew him well, and on his never-before-published letters home and his voluminous "war notes"—offers the first intimate look at a traumatic and life-altering experience by Douglas Brinkley The Thoughtful Soldier: An Interview Douglas BrinkleyThe Bubble of American Supremacy A prominent financier argues that the heedless assertion of American power in the world resembles a financial bubble—and the moment of truth may be here by George Soros The Backside of War How I saved Iraq's modern art, and other confessions. A noncombatant's diary by P. J. O'Rourke Man on the Street: An Interview With P. J. O'RourkeHow to Kill a Country Turning a breadbasket into a basket case in ten easy steps—the Robert Mugabe way by Samantha Power Life in Mugabe-Ville: An Interview With Samantha PowerScrutiny on the Bounty Captain Bligh's secret logbook by Christopher Buckley Literary Lives Lillian Hellman A drawing by Edward Sorel The Apparition A poem by Maxine Kumin [audio] Childlight A poetry anthology Children, Singing A poem by Sydney Lea [audio]  New & Noteworthy The Gay Talese Reader, introduction by Barbara Lounsberry; The Life You Save May Be Your Own, by Paul Elie; Brick Lane, by Monica Ali; The Constant Circle, by Sara Mayfield; Theology in America, by E. Brooks Holifield; Chicago's Famous Buildings, Fifth Edition, by Franz Schulze and Kevin Harrington reviewed by Benjamin Schwarz The Supreme American Novelist A tribute to Saul Bellow, fifty years after he published one of the great novels of all time by Martin Amis Second Puberty The later years of W. B. Yeats brought his best poetry, along with personal melodrama on an epic scale reviewed by Christopher Cahill Pictures From an Inquisition The work of the writer Victor Serge faultlessly captures the labyrinth of bureaucratic incrimination into which the Soviet Union descended reviewed by Christopher Hitchens Burgher Deluxe Trading Up, by Michael J. Silverstein and Neil Fiske; and Living It Up, by James B. Twitchell reviewed by Sandra Tsing Loh Other Reviews: Old School, by Tobias Wolff, reviewed by Thomas Mallon; The Towers of Trebizond, by Rose Macaulay, reviewed by Brooke Allen; Jenny and the Cat Club, by Esther Averill, reviewed by Christina Schwarz The Writing Obsession: An Interview With Tobias WolffThe Lonely Passion The Between Boyfriends Book, by Cindy Chupack reviewed by Caitlin Flanagan  INNOCENT BYSTANDER: Setting the Bar When our standards don't live up to our standards by Cullen Murphy TRAVELS: The Holy Mountain Intimations of the geopolitical future in a place where time stands still by Robert D. Kaplan FOOD: Pride of Place Oregon's artisan Pinot Noir growers are the garagistes of the Pacific Northwest by Corby Kummer FICTION: The Red Carpet A short story by Lavanya Sankaran The Puzzler by Emily Cox and Henry Rathvon Word Fugitives by Barbara Wallraff
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