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IN MEMORIAM
A Life's Work Remembering Peter Davison
by David Barber [Web only]
Calendar
Letters to the Editor
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
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
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 CauseREADING LIST Was It Something I Said?
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]
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
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