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CalendarLetters to the Editor
COMMENT Does Oil Have a Future? Even the industry has its doubts
by Clive Crook
MARKETS Hundred-Dollar Oil
by James Hamilton
PHOTO OP A River Runs Through It
photograph by Richard Butler
BRIEF LIVES Mahmoud the Bashful For Iran's new president, running from the 1979 hostage-taking is like John Hancock's running from the Declaration. What's his problem?
by Mark Bowden
HYPOTHETICALS The Cascade of Proliferation
by Graham Allison
THE ODDS Who Will Be the Next Fed Chairman?
by John Sellers
CROSS-EXAMINATION The Executioner's Swan Song? The death penalty is not about to vanish overnight—but the Supreme Court's tolerance for it is diminishing rapidly
by Benjamin Wittes
Primary Sources The prospects for a united Korea; a new study of old studies; TV dads gain financial ground; AIDS in the Islamic world
Compiled by Marshall Poe and Ross Douthat
THE WORLD IN NUMBERS The World Is Spiky Globalization has changed the economic playing field, but hasn't leveled it
by Richard Florida
Lincoln's Great Depression
Abraham Lincoln fought clinical depression all his life, and if he were alive today, his condition would be treated as a "character issue"—that is, as a political liability. His condition was indeed a character issue: it gave him the tools to save the nation
by Joshua Wolf Shenk
INTERVIEWS Commander in GriefRoy and His Rock
Joshua Wolf Shenk on how melancholy both tore Abraham Lincoln apart and gave him strength
by Katie Bacon [Web only]
Roy Moore, the "Ten Commandments Judge," has embarked on an odyssey that is taking him and his controversial monument far beyond his home state of Alabama. He wants the Republican Party to bow down
by Joshua Green
Imperial Grunts
With the Army Special Forces in the Philippines and Afghanistan—laboratories of counterinsurgency
by Robert D. Kaplan
In the Footsteps of Tocqueville (Part IV)
From the storm systems of Florida to those of Washington, D. C.
by Bernard-Henri Lévy
POETRY Asiatic Lilies
[with audio]
by Joyce Peseroff
Step
A drawing by Guy Billout
by Guy Billout
POETRY Prayer
[with audio]
by Ellen Bryant Voigt
EDITOR'S CHOICE Another World
The Stripping of the Altars, by Eamon Duffy; The Mind of the Master Class, by Elizabeth Fox-Genovese and Eugene D. Genovese; Crazy Horse, by Mari Sandoz
by Benjamin Schwarz
The Secret of the Old Saw
Nancy Drew has two mommies
by Sandra Tsing Loh
READING LIST Gender Bending, Part 2
Women's books that men should read
by Terry Castle
Triumph at Trafalgar
In his victory over the French and the Spanish, Admiral Horatio Nelson's biggest guns were the Protestant ethic and the spirit of capitalism
by Christopher Hitchens
New Fiction
On Beauty, by Zadie Smith
by Joseph O'Neill
INTERVIEWS Zadie, Take ThreeA Close Read
The author of White Teeth and The Autograph Man talks about her new comedy of manners-cum-campus novel and the pitfalls of literary celebrity.
by Jessica Murphy [Web only]
Willful Creatures: Stories, by Aimee Bender
by Christina Schwarz
Latex Conquers All
A revised compendium of the curses and clichés that beset modern feminism
by Cristina Nehring
BEST SELLERS ABROAD Israel
by David Hazony
TRAVELS The Old Man and the Daiquiri
A pilgrimage through Hemingway's Havana
by Wayne Curtis
FOOD Sweet Home Louisiana
Sampling artisanal rum from New Orleans—and one of the city's signature desserts
by Corby Kummer
THE PUZZLER Alien Invasion
by Emily Cox and Henry Rathvon
Word Fugitives
by Barbara Wallraff
POST MORTEM Great Scott
James Montgomery Doohan (1920—2005)
by Mark Steyn
Who's Who
A selective index to this month's issue
Compiled by Benjamin Healy