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The Fall of the House of Saud Can the U.S. disentangle itself from Saudi Arabia? Share your thoughts on Robert Baer's cover story. The Baby Experts Has raising children become more competitive and stress-inducing in recent years? Or has it always been that way? See the complete forum index. |
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Letters to the Editor What Now? A letter from Kuwait City by Michael Kelly What Whitman Knew Walt Whitman's "Democratic Vistas" is still the most trenchant explanation of American power and policies by David Brooks Let It Be The greatest development in modern religion is not a religion at all—it's an attitude best described as "apatheism" by Jonathan Rauch "I'm Right, You're Wrong, Go to Hell" Religions and the meeting of civilizations by Bernard Lewis Euphorias of Hatred The grim lessons of a novel by Gogol by Robert D. Kaplan Primary Sources Selections from recent reports, studies, and other documents The World in Numbers U. S. Military Logistics by Bruce Falconer The Fall of the House of Saud [At the request of the author, this article is not available online. It will be available as part of an upcoming book by Mr. Baer.] Americans have long considered Saudi Arabia the one constant in the Arab Middle East—a source of cheap oil, political stability, and lucrative business relationships. But the government is also deeply corrupt, and gives succor to terrorism. Now, a former CIA operative argues, the Saudi royal family is on the verge of collapse—and much of the global economy could collapse with it by Robert Baer An Interview With Robert Baer: Addicted to OilLong Shot An eccentric new company called Sea Launch is sending large rockets into space from a floating launch pad that sails to the Equator for blast-off. Has the era of private space travel begun? by Gregg Easterbrook Hitler's Forgotten Library In the spring of 1945, in a German salt mine, soldiers from the 101st Airborne Division discovered some 3,000 books belonging to Adolf Hitler. More than a thousand of them are now in the Library of Congress. Largely ignored, the books—and their marginalia—reveal Hitler's deep and disturbing interest in religion and theology by Timothy W. Ryback Coyotes A poem by Mark Jarman [audio] Literary Lives Ayn Rand A drawing by Edward Sorel A Good Country A short story by Geeta Sharma Jensen A Morris Dance A poem by Mary Jo Salter Amateur Iconography: Resurrection A poem by A. E. Stallings  New & Noteworthy A new biography of Lord Nelson; a study of the architect Raphael Soriano; essays by the critic Clive James; an anthology of writing on compassion toward animals; the historian A.J.P. Taylor's still matchless history of Germany; a reconstruction of the first day in the Battle of the Somme; an account of the anti-Semitic hysteria that swept France in 1898 reviewed by Benjamin Schwarz The Permanent Adolescent The vices of Evelyn Waugh are what made him a king of comedy and of tragedy by Christopher Hitchens Flashbacks: The Cruel Wit of Evelyn WaughThe Baby Experts "Loving gardeners who spend twenty-four hours a day straining to pick up ineffable clues from their developmentally delicate hothouse flowers," the author writes, "wind up exhausted and hysterical." Two new histories of U.S. child-rearing show that anxiety in parents is nothing new by Sandra Tsing Loh Other reviews Monkey Hunting, by Cristina García, reviewed by Margot Livesey; Bay of Souls, by Robert Stone, reviewed by Thomas Mallon An Interview With Cristina García:Not Green, Not Red, Not Pink Oscar Wilde cannot be simplified into an Irish rebel, a subversive socialist, or a gay martyr by Geoffrey Wheatcroft  INNOCENT BYSTANDER: The Olden Mean When the posthuman future meets our pre-posthuman selves by Cullen Murphy TRAVELS: Carbonaro and Primavera With gasoline prices in Cuba going up and up, it is once again an excellent time to have—and to be—an ox by Susan Orlean FOOD: Back to Grass The old way of raising cattle is now the new way—better for the animals and better for your table by Corby Kummer The Puzzler by Emily Cox and Henry Rathvon Word Fugitives by Barbara Wallraff
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