December 2001
In This Issue
David Brooks, “One Nation, Slightly Divisible”; Robert D. Kaplan, “Looking the World in the Eye”; Penny Wolfson, “Moonrise”; William Langewiesche, “Storm Island”; Marshall Jon Fisher, “Pixels at an Exhibition”; fiction by Lesley Dormen; Mona Simpson on Alice Munro; and much more.
Articles
Portrait of a Woman as a Young Boxer
Rosalie Parker began boxing before it became a chic female sport
The Old Economy Husband
A Short Story
Pixels at an Exhibition
It may be time to take a closer look at digital photography
Costumes from Camelot
Jacqueline Kennedy's true style lay in the ways she allied her femininity with her tremendous strength
Stranger in a Strange Land
The dismay of an honorable man of the left
One-Alarm Fire
U.S. counterterrorism may be overly preoccupied with biological weapons—which have a rather poor track record
All You Need Is Love
How the terrorists stopped terrorism
Looking the World in the Eye
Samuel Huntington is a mild-mannered man whose sharp opinions—about the collision of Islam and the West, about the role of the military in a liberal society, about what separates countries that work from countries that don't—have proved to be as prescient as they have been controversial. Huntington has been ridiculed and vilified, but in the decades ahead his view of the world will be the way it really looks
77 North Washington Street
Sweet and Intense
The wine that made Ontario famous
Storm Island
If you like extreme weather, the French island of Ouessant is a good place to find it
Letters to the editor
Walking Back the Cat
The culture of explanation
Police Powers
How the IRA leverages the peace process
Squishier than thou
Demonstrating against reality in London and Washington
Security Versus Civil Liberties
A distinguished jurist advises us to calm down about the probable curtailing of some personal freedoms in the months ahead. As a nation we've treated certain civil liberties as malleable, when necessary, from the start
Countering the Smallpox Threat
Even before the September 11 attacks heightened our fears of bio-terrorism, a biologist came up with a sensible strategy for coping with one of the most fearsome possibilities
Special Collections: Astronaut Laundry
A Quiet Genius
Alice Munro is the living writer most likely to be read in a hundred years.
Putin's Policy of Realpolitik
In pledging support to the West's fight against terrorism, the Russian leader is advancing the national interest of his country—and hedging his bets
Fourth-generation Warfare
Pentagon mavericks have been trying for decades to reorient military strategy toward a new kind of threat—the kind we're suddenly facing in the war on terrorism. Now that we've got the war they predicted, will we get the reforms they've been pushing for?
Word Fugitives
Moonrise
A mother writes about her teenage son, afflicted with muscular dystrophy, and the life he leads, and the one he can look forward to
Councils of War
Matching confusing new realities to historical experience
One Nation, Slightly Divisible
The electoral map of the 2000 presidential race became famous: big blocks of red (denoting states that went for Bush) stretched across the heartland, with brackets of blue (denoting states for Gore) along the coasts. Our Blue America correspondent has ventured repeatedly into Red territory. He asks the question—after September 11, a pressing one—Do our differences effectively split us into two nations, or are they just cracks in a still-united whole?
Delfina
Restaurants worth building a trip around
New & Noteworthy
Lots of new Irving Berlin; more of the same from John Barth; the ideal courier
(Some of) the best books of 2001
Suggestions for getting and giving
