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CalendarLetters to the Editor  COMMENT News Judgment and Jihad Terrorists depend on the cooperation of the media. It's time to stop providing it by Mark Bowden BRIEF LIVES At the Gates of Brussels If Recep Tayyip Erdogan gets his way, Turkey will be more Islamic and Europe will be more Turkish. Both would be good news by Robert D. Kaplan VERBATIM How Not to Catch a Terrorist A ten-step program, from the files of the U.S. intelligence community FOREIGN AFFAIRS Strait-jacket December elections could edge Taiwan closer to a symbolic declaration of independence—and the United States toward military conflict with China. There's one way out by Trevor Corson THE LIST Holiday Cheer The world's most bibulous countries by Nathan Littlefield GENERIC COMMENTARY Hail to the _____ An all-purpose post-election editorial, offered free to news organizations across the United States by P. J. O'Rourke POLITICS Executive Assistance The split between "red" states and "blue" states has never been wider, but one type of candidate is bridging that gap: businessmen by Alexandra Starr THE ODDS Who's the Gay Simpson? by Nathan Littlefield POLITICS A Spectator's Guide to the Political Action Universe [This article is unavailable online.] by Byron York THE ART OF POLICY Pork With a Point The highway bill—a translation by P. J. O'Rourke Primary Sources Federal air marshals behaving badly; why women get less sleep than men; divorce among born-again Christians by Marshall Poe & Ross Douthat THE WORLD IN NUMBERS Russia's Loose Nukes [This article is unavailable online.] by Terrence Henry  Among the Hostage-Takers Twenty-five years ago in Tehran a group of Iranian students stormed the U.S. embassy and took hostage the entire American diplomatic mission. Now many of the leading hostage-takers speak candidly about their actions—which a surprising number deeply regret by Mark Bowden INTERVIEWS Into the Den of Spies The Iran Hostage CrisisWill Iran Be Next? Soldiers, spies, and diplomats conduct a classic Pentagon war game—with sobering results by James Fallows The Confidentiality Fetish The problem with attorney-client privilege by William H. Simon Leaks and the Law What happens when the journalistic principle of protecting confidential sources clashes with the public interest in prosecuting a crime? A cross-examination by Benjamin Wittes Nobel Prize Claim Form by Bruce McCall POETRY Loyal Carp by Gerald Stern SHORT STORY Harbinger Hall A section of the bookcase slowly swung out into the room—a secret door, straight from a monster movie by Bill Roorbach  EDITOR'S CHOICE Cheap at $13,000 Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, edited by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison; Encyclopedia of the Great Plains, edited by David J. Wishart; The Children's Blizzard, by David Laskin; The Encyclopedia of Chicago, edited by James R. Grossman, Ann Durkin Keating, and Janice L. Reiff; Chicago, by A. J. Liebling; Honored Guest, by Joy Williams by Benjamin Schwarz Books of the Year by Benjamin Schwarz Leave Them and Love Them In Alice Munro's fiction, memory and passion reorder life by Lorrie Moore Shakespeare in Love, or in Context If society creates art, as Stephen Greenblatt believes, then why was Shakespeare's achievement so singular? by Cristina Nehring The Minister's Tale Marilynne Robinson's long-awaited second novel is an almost otherworldly book—and reveals Robinson as a somewhat otherworldly figure herself by Mona Simpson INTERVIEWS Gilead's BalmREADING LIST The Wonderful, Horrible Life of Humankind From corruptibility to immortality, the human condition as revealed in four very different books by David O. Russell Survivor Victor Klemperer's meticulous diaries of daily life under East Germany's "soul-smashing" Communists reveal a man trying to convince himself not that the system was wrong but that it was right by Christopher Hitchens  INNOCENT BYSTANDER Knock It Off The art of the unreal by Cullen Murphy A LOOK BACK 100 Years Ago in The Atlantic "Remarks at the Peace Banquet" FOOD Flavorless No More Small batch by small batch, the makers of a new artisanal vodka have tapped into the market for America's best-selling spirits by Corby Kummer THE PUZZLER Cryptic Buffet by Emily Cox and Henry Rathvon Word Fugitives by Barbara Wallraff POST MORTEM The Paladin of Palimony Marvin Mitchelson (1928-2004) by Mark Steyn Who's Who A selective index to this month's issue by Benjamin Healy |
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