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CalendarLetters to the Editor  COMMENT The New Nixon It'll be George W. Bush, if he doesn't change his economic policies soon by Jonathan Rauch PHOTO OP Peripheral Vision photographs by Christopher Morris FOREIGN AFFAIRS The Wrong Lesson Our counterinsurgency efforts abroad are starting to resemble the British Empire's. This could mean gains now—and trouble later by Caroline Elkins INTERVIEWS The Secret History Caroline Elkins, the author of Imperial Reckoning, talks about unearthing the sinister underside of Britain's "civilizing" mission in KenyaTHE LIST Local Realities by Marshall Poe and Abigail Cutler POLL Hillary in 2008? Political insiders weigh in on the presidential prospects of Hillary Clinton. by James A. Barnes and Peter Bell BRIEF LIVES The Show-Me Sheikh The grand mufti of Egypt, Ali Gomaa, is peddling a new kind of radical Islam—traditionalism without the extremism by G. Willow Wilson PHENOMENON Marathon Men by Chris Cillizza HYPOTHETICALS A Roll of the Dice The future of Iraq. A board game by Spencer Ackerman Primary Sources A liberal's case for the death penalty; can Iraq stop worrying about Iran?; bottomless appetites; congressional cheats Compiled by Marshall Poe and Ross Douthat THE NATION IN NUMBERS Pffffttt The U.S. real-estate bubble is likely to leak, not pop by Don Peck  Countdown to a Meltdown America's coming economic crisis. A look back from the election of 2016 by James Fallows Meltdown: A Case Study What America a century ago can teach us about the moral consequences of economic decline by Benjamin M. Friedman In the Footsteps of Tocqueville (Part Three) Death row and a brothel in Las Vegas; a pilot's lecture on creationism; genealogy and the Mormons; higher learning in Austin; a gun show in Fort Worth; and the rain-struck opening of the Clinton Library by Bernard-Henri Lévy North Korea: The War Game Some of this country's most prominent foreign-policy strategists recently conducted a Pentagon-style war game. Dealing with North Korea could make Iraq look like child's play by Scott Stossel Wolfowitz: The Exit Interviews As he prepared to leave office, the deputy secretary of defense engaged in a series of conversations with the author on Iraq, democracy, intelligence, 9/11, and how he believes America must make its way in the world by Mark Bowden POETRY Birthday [with audio] by Henri Cole  EDITOR'S CHOICE Elements of Style Sinatra, by Anthony Summers and Robbyn Swan; Chanel, edited by Harold Koda and Andrew Bolton; Edmund Wilson, by Lewis M. Dabney; The Lights That Failed, by Zara Steiner by Benjamin Schwarz Calamity Jane The incoherent life (so far) of Jane Fonda by Tom Carson Fidelity With a Wandering Eye Love is noble, love is hard, and women cheat just as readily as men by Cristina Nehring READING LIST The Lady Is a Tramp Five books about endlessly inspiring, morally vacuous women by Sally Singer New Fiction The Wonder Spot, by Melissa Bank by Elizabeth Judd A Breath of Dust "I wasn't even bothering whether I understood what I was saying," T. S. Eliot said of The Waste Land. A new guide to the poem inadvertently suggests we should take him at his word by Christopher Hitchens A Close Read Fascination, by William Boyd by Christina Schwarz BEST SELLERS ABROAD Japan by Makiko Kitamura You Might as Well Live Nick Hornby's characters could care less by Jon Zobenica  SPORT Masters of the Hunt So the British have banned the killing of foxes and other wild mammals with the aid of dogs. Now what? A report from the sponge-wet moors of Barmy Britannia by P. J. O'Rourke THE PUZZLER Code Pairs by Emily Cox and Henry Rathvon Word Fugitives by Barbara Wallraff POST MORTEM A Gentleman, of a Kind Prince Rainier of Monaco (1923-2005) by Mark Steyn Who's Who A selective index to this month's issue Compiled by Benjamin Healy |
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