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COMMENT Will Israel Live to 100? Don't be seduced by the recent hopeful signs: in the long run the Israeli-Palestinian conflict will remain a problem without a solution
by Benjamin Schwarz
THE MILITARY Gas Pains One of the U.S. military's greatest vulnerabilities in Iraq is its enormous appetite for fuel. The insurgents have figured this out
by Robert Bryce
BRIEF LIVES The Apocalypse, Rated PG Can a socially conservative Christian Republican succeed in Hollywood? Philip Anschutz is betting he can
by Ross Douthat
CARTOON Inflation
by Istvan Banyai
THE LIST White House Chefs
by Tyler Cabot
THE ART OF POLICY Freedom, Responsibility … and What? Social Security reform—an explanation
by P. J. O'Rourke
THE ODDS After Kim Jong Il
by Terrence Henry
POLITICS It Isn't the Message, Stupid A new kind of guru is convincing Democrats that they don't need new ideas after all—a snazzy new sales pitch will revive their fortunes
by Joshua Green
CROSS-EXAMINATION The Hapless Toad Amid all the liberal hysteria about the threats posed by a conservative Supreme Court, one threat tends to be ignored—and it happens to be the biggest one
by Benjamin Wittes
MATTERS OF SUBSTANCE How to Beat a Drug Test
by Marshall Poe
Primary Sources Why you shouldn't trust your real-estate agent; the financial cost of expelling gays from the military; how to spot a crooked CEO
In the Footsteps of Tocqueville
How does America look to foreign eyes? This year marks the bicentennial of the birth of Alexis de Tocqueville, our keenest interpreter. We asked another Frenchman to travel deep into America and report on what he found
by Bernard-Henri Lévy
INTERVIEWS America in Foreign EyesOn Becoming American
Bernard-Henri Lévy speaks with David Brooks about America—its patriotism, its religion, its ideology [Web only]
What does it take for an immigrant to shift from "you" to "we"?
by Christopher Hitchens
The Coming Death Shortage
Why the longevity boom will make us sorry to be alive
by Charles C. Mann
Hotel Baghdad
Fear and lodging in Iraq
by William Langewiesche
POETRY WYSSA
[with audio]
by Elizabeth Bradfield
POETRY Bat
[with audio]
by Mark Jarman
Boat Ride
A drawing
by Guy Billout
EDITOR'S CHOICE Eminent Domains
The Sky's the Limit, by Steven Gaines; London 1945, by Maureen Waller; The Command of the Ocean, by N. A. M. Rodger
by Benjamin Schwarz
A Bag of Tired Tricks
Blank pages? Photos of mating tortoises? The death throes of the postmodern novel
by B. R. Myers
READING LIST Retail Therapy
Five fictional reasons not to pay full price
by Sally Singer
The Man Who Ended Slavery
Slandered by craven abolitionists as unhinged, John Brown was in fact an eloquent, cool-headed tactician who succeeded in his long-range plan: launching a civil war
by Christopher Hitchens
FLASHBACKS John Brown in The AtlanticNew Fiction
A collection of writings—some by Brown's friends and collaborators—sheds light on the abolitionist who took a violent stand against slavery [Web only]
Never Let Me Go, by Kazuo Ishiguro
by Joseph O'Neill
INTERVIEWS Myths and MetaphorsNew Fiction
Kazuo Ishiguro on Jane Austen, adapting his work for film, and his latest novel, Never Let Me Go
by Jennie Rothenberg [Web only]
Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami
by Jon Zobenica
The Big Shill
Hollywood's need for hits creates a culture of misses
by Tom Carson
A Close Read
The Good Wife, by Stewart O'Nan
by Christina Schwarz
BEST SELLERS ABROAD China
by Sean Creehan
FOOD The Kosher Conversion
The market for kosher food is growing, for reasons both practical and spiritual
by Corby Kummer
THE PUZZLER Sightseeing
by Emily Cox and Henry Rathvon
Word Fugitives
by Barbara Wallraff
POST MORTEM The Marrying Kind
Owen Allred (1914-2005)
by Mark Steyn
Who's Who
A selective index to this month's issue
Compiled by Benjamin Healy