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CalendarLetters to the Editor
COMMENT Remote Control The Supreme Court's greatest failing is not ideological bias—it's the justices' increasingly tenuous grasp of how the real world works
by Stuart Taylor Jr.
COMMENT Without Precedent Actually, the Supreme Court's problem is not merely disconnection from the real world—it's also arrogance, dishonesty, grandiosity, and a lack of respect for principle, history, or logic
by Benjamin Wittes
MEDIA On Condition of Anonymity
by Walter Shapiro
PHOTO OP "Blue Expects That Every Man Will Do His Duty" photograph by Stephen Hird
BRIEF LIVES Waiting for Sarko Will Nicolas Sarkozy vanquish his mentor Jacques Chirac to become France's first "American" president?
by Charles Trueheart
THE LIST Assassination Attempts
by Michael Slenske
Primary Sources Terrorism tallies; do good grades cost minority kids popularity?; the long-term benefits of nonviolence; why athletes should wear red
Compiled by Matthew Quirk and Ross Douthat
THE WORLD IN NUMBERS Nature's Wrath A field guide
by Matthew Quirk
In a Ruined Country
How Yasir Arafat destroyed Palestine
by David Samuels
INTERVIEWS The Father of PalestineOne of Our Whales Is Missing
David Samuels, the author of "In a Ruined Country," on how Yasir Arafat conned the world and destroyed a nation
by Elizabeth Shelburne [Web only]
In which Rick Renard, PR hustler par excellence, sets out to save Grimland's gentle giants of the deep. A short story
by Christopher Buckley
The Holy Cow! Candidate
Mitt Romney, the governor of Massachusetts, loves data, hates waste, and reveres Dwight Eisenhower. He's also the Next Big Thing in the Republican Party. But can anyone so clean-cut, so pure of character, and (by gosh!) so square overcome the "two Ms"—Mormonism and Massachusetts—to be our next president?
by Sridhar Pappu
Lost Verizon
Intercepted phone call outside the gates of Vienna, recently declassified
by Evan Eisenberg
EDITOR'S CHOICE He Found It at the Movies
James Agee: Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, A Death in the Family, Shorter Fiction and James Agee: Film Writing & Selected Journalism, edited by Michael Sragow; Louis I. Kahn, by Robert McCarter; Tired of Weeping, by Jónína Einarsdóttir; The Chosen, by Jerome Karabel
by Benjamin Schwarz and Editor's Choice
Hobbes in the Himalayas
The situation in horrible, magical modern Kashmir—where East battles East in a war that fuses the psychopathic and the apocalyptic—defies political analysis. But Salman Rushdie's new novel captures it as nothing else can
by Christopher Hitchens
INTERVIEWS The Limits of ToleranceREADING LIST Gender Bending
Salman Rushdie talks about his new novel, Shalimar the Clown, the Islamic moral universe, and the crushing of Kashmir
by Katie Bacon [Web only]
Men's books that women should read
by Terry Castle
The Great Escape
A grudging salute to an absentee mom
by Sandra Tsing Loh
New Fiction
Antwerp, by Nicholas Royle
by Joseph O'Neill
If Pigs Could Swim
Why our farm animals would be better off on the other side of the Atlantic
by B. R. Myers
A Close Read
Perfect Strangers and Other Stories, by Roxana Robinson
by Christina Schwarz
BEST SELLERS ABROAD India
by Allen Salkin
PRIVATE LIFE The XY Files
Forgoing a trip down the aisle, our correspondent heads straight to the sperm bank. But does she want the Truffaut aficionado or the mentor to underprivileged kids?
by Lori Gottlieb
FLASHBACKS The Varieties of Reproductive ExperienceTHE PUZZLER Lost and Found
Atlantic writing from the 1960s to the present on cloning, in vitro fertilization, egg donation, sperm donation, and more.
by Sage Stossel [Web only]
by Emily Cox and Henry Rathvon
Word Court
by Barbara Wallraff
POST MORTEM The Pariah Guy
Edward J. von Kloberg III (1942—2005)
by Mark Steyn
Who's Who
A selective index to this month's issue
Compiled by Benjamin Healy