THE ATLANTIC | Volume 295 No. 3 | April 2005

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Atlantic cover IN MEMORIAM  A Life's Work  Remembering Peter Davison
by David Barber [Web only]

Calendar

Letters to the Editor

The Agenda
COMMENT  Getting Out Right  Warnings from many experts went unheeded before we entered Iraq. Let's listen as we prepare to "shape the exit"
by James Fallows

INTELLIGENCE  Inside Out  Why it's so hard to infiltrate al-Qaeda
by Michael Scheuer

POLITICS  The Air America Plan  Liberal talk radio is off the ground. Will the electorate turn blue, or just red in the face?
by Joshua Green

THE LIST  The Art of the Steal
by Michael Slenske

THE ART OF POLICY  Incumbent-Protection Acts  Campaign-finance reform—an explanation
by P. J. O'Rourke

CROSS-EXAMINATION  Confirmation Class  Most of what we learn from confirmation hearings for a Supreme Court chief justice will be misleading or irrelevant
by Benjamin Wittes

PHENOMENON  A Spouse in the House
by Chris Cillizza

Primary Sources  Smart women stay single; why religious Americans fear Muslims; Israel's surprisingly bright demographic future; are the left-handed better in a fight?

THE WORLD IN NUMBERS  Crude Politics  [This article is unavailable online.]
by Matthew Yeomans

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Host
"The key to the John Ziegler Show," says the angry, outraged, and apocalyptically gleeful talk-radio host John Ziegler, "is that I am almost completely real." A report from deep inside the mercenary world of take-no-prisoners political talk radio
by David Foster Wallace

Rehnquist the Great?
Even liberals may come to regard William Rehnquist as one of the most successful chief justices of the century
by Jeffrey Rosen

America's African Rifles
"Every time you fire, a bad guy should bleed!" At the heart of the U.S. military's imperial venture is the training of indigenous troops around the world—and at the heart of that training is the rifle range. A report from Niger
by Robert D. Kaplan

POETRY  To the Future
by Peter Davison

POETRY  Resin
[with audio]
by Geri Doran

SHORT STORY  Bullheads
"He wanted to thank God for his life, and he did. He didn't know what was next, but saw no point in being fearful now"
by Michael Lohre

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Books and Critics
EDITOR'S CHOICE  The Lost Crusade
Against the Beast, edited by John Nichols; War and the Iliad, by Simone Weil and Rachel Bespaloff; Understanding Dante, by John A. Scott
by Benjamin Schwarz

Thinking of Jackasses
Three recent books reveal the grand delusions of the Democratic Party
by Marc Cooper
INTERVIEWS  Rebels Without a Cause
Joseph Heath and Andrew Potter, the authors of Nation of Rebels, on how the myth of a counterculture derailed the political left
by Elizabeth Wasserman [Web only]
READING LIST  Was It Something I Said?
Five books by extremely engaging misogynists
by Cristina Nehring

A Close Read
Follies and New Stories, by Ann Beattie
by Christina Schwarz

Civilization and Its Malcontents
Alongside a "peace" demonstration in London, a crisis of micro-terrorism
by Christopher Hitchens

A Close Read
How We Are Hungry, by Dave Eggers
by Jon Zobenica

Tradecraft
Rightly championed for decades by genre and literary readers alike, John le Carré has written a novel that may appeal to neither camp
by B. R. Myers

New Fiction
March, by Geraldine Brooks
by Christina Schwarz

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Pursuits and Retreats
TRAVELS  The Hitler Shrine
A luxury hotel has opened next to the site of Adolf Hitler's notorious mountain retreat, the Berghof
by Timothy W. Ryback

THE PUZZLER  Running the Gamut
by Emily Cox and Henry Rathvon

Word Court
by Barbara Wallraff

POST MORTEM  The Fifth Nixon
Rose Mary Woods (1917-2005)
by Mark Steyn

Who's Who
A selective index to this month's issue
Compiled by Benjamin Healy