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CalendarLetters to the Editor  COMMENT Managing China's Rise Contending effectively with China's ambitions requires a better understanding of our own by Benjamin Schwarz PHOTO OP Shanghai Rising [This article is unavailable online.] a photograph by Alessandro Digaetano INTELLIGENCE Truth Extraction A classic text on interrogating enemy captives offers a counterintuitive lesson on the best way to get information by Stephen Budiansky PHENOMENON Baby Names by Tyler Cabot BRIEF LIVES The Odd Couple Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid, old-fashioned Democrats, have the charge—but so far few signs of the ability—to sell their party to America by Joshua Green THE LIST The Next Plague? Contagion through history by Michael Slenske HYPOTHETICALS Democratic Dominoes [This article is unavailable online.] by Daniel Byman Primary Sources Grade inflation at Cornell; what the Saudis are teaching Muslims in America; what the UN does better than the United States  How We Would Fight China The Middle East is just a blip. The American military contest with China in the Pacific will define the twenty-first century. And China will be a more formidable adversary than Russia ever was by Robert D. Kaplan FLASHBACKS This American LifeZiad for the Defense When Saddam Hussein goes on trial, he will not lack for legal defenders. Heading his team at the moment is a man named Ziad al-Khasawneh by William Langewiesche Road Trip: Part II What would Tocqueville say? A journey continues, from Seattle to San Diego via Alcatraz and an obesity clinic by Bernard-Henri Lévy Being Geraldo Yes, he knows exactly what he is. But he still can't help it. (And anyway, it's not quite what you think) by Sridhar Pappu The Flirty Dozen The field testing of Agent Mauve by Christopher Buckley POETRY Ishi [with audio] by Louis Simpson POETRY The Tattered Dress [with audio] by Ellen Bryant Voigt  EDITOR'S CHOICE Golden State The Golden West, by Daniel Fuchs; California Rising: The Life and Times of Pat Brown, by Ethan Rarick; The Singapore Grip, by J. G. Farrell; The Survivor, by John F. Harris; Carry Me Back, by Steven Deyle by Benjamin Schwarz Kiddie Class Struggle One mom's breast-milk-curdling tour of lower education's higher end by Sandra Tsing Loh READING LIST Strange Butterflies Recent collections from the photographic fringe by Terry Castle New Fiction Specimen Days, by Michael Cunningham by Joseph O'Neill A Doomed Young Man No, he was not Byron. But he certainly tried. A new look at Mikhail Lermontov and his classic work, A Hero of Our Time by Christopher Hitchens A Close Read Ideas of Heaven, by Joan Silber by Christina Schwarz TEMPEST A Letters Exchange After School The mind-boggling coincidences, boundless energy, and cheerful capaciousness of Jonathan Coe's new novel, The Closed Circle by Elizabeth Judd  ORAL HISTORY The Kissinger Transcripts A selection from recently released material in the National Archives by James Warren FLASHBACKS The Craft and Craftiness of Henry KissingerTHE PUZZLER Central Intelligence by Emily Cox and Henry Rathvon Word Court by Barbara Wallraff POST MORTEM The Chap on Duty James Callaghan (1912-2005) by Mark Steyn Who's Who A selective index to this month's issue Compiled by Benjamin Healy |
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