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Letters to the Editor People Like Us We all pay lip service to the melting pot, but we really prefer the congealing pot by David Brooks Four More Years? The man who challenged the first President Bush considers the second President Bush—and the invincibility question by Patrick J. Buchanan The One-Term Tradition A second term has often proved to be the nemesis of presidential reputation. George W. Bush should beware by Jack Beatty What's My Next Setup? A cartoon by Steve Brodner Primary Sources Selections from recent reports, studies, and other documents. This month: Osama bin Laden and Jacques Chirac voted able "to do the right thing"; the coming suburban ghetto?; why the Vikings would have liked global warming The Nation in Numbers Up in the Air by Michael Calabrese and J. H. Snider Anarchy at Sea The sea is a domain increasingly beyond government control, vast and wild, where laws of nations mean little and secretive shipowners do as they please—and where the resilient pathogens of piracy and terrorism flourish by William Langewiesche Close-Up: The Age of Murdoch Many see him as a power-mad, rapacious right-wing vulgarian. What really drives Rupert Murdoch, though, is not ideology but a cool concern for the bottom line—and the belief that the media should be treated like any other business, not as a semi-sacred public trust. The Bush Administration agrees. Rupert Murdoch has seen the future, and it is him by James Fallows Founders Chic Interest in the Founding Fathers has risen and fallen over time, but it's probably fair to say that their stock is currently at an all-time high. And this should worry us by H. W. Brands An Interview With H. W. Brands: Ordinary PeopleE.T. and God Could earthly religions survive the discovery of life elsewhere in the universe? by Paul Davies Back to School A drawing by Edward Sorel TV A poem by John Updike Silent Heart Attack A poem by Stanley Plumly [audio] Mudlavia A short story by Elizabeth Stuckey-French To Smoke A poem by W. S. Merwin To a Tortoiseshell Lyre A poem by W. S. Merwin  New & Noteworthy What to read this month reviewed by Benjamin Schwarz Housewife Confidential "Lady, you are the problem," a member of the women's liberation movement once wrote to the syndicated columnist Erma Bombeck—a view that today has become conventional wisdom. "In fact, she was not," our author argues emphatically, in a tribute to Bombeck and the women she championed by Caitlin Flanagan "Loosie!" A new biography of Lucille Ball reviewed by Mona Simpson Encore Charles Baxter's new novel brings back some old friends reviewed by James Marcus Where the Twain Should Have Met Born into an Anglican Palestinian family, raised in Jerusalem and Cairo, educated at Ivy League universities, and well established as a professor of English and comparative literature at Columbia, the cosmopolitan Edward Said was ideally placed to explain East to West and West to East. What went wrong? reviewed by Christopher Hitchens California Catholics Maile Meloy's first novel uses gaudy old-time religion to string together a sweeping family narrative reviewed by Thomas Mallon  INNOCENT BYSTANDER: On Second Thought Ideas whose time has come, unfortunately by Cullen Murphy TRAVELS: Bad Debt Settling accounts in the vacuum of postwar Iraq by Tish Durkin The Puzzler by Emily Cox and Henry Rathvon Word Court by Barbara Wallraff
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