October 2002
In This Issue
Philip Jenkins, “The Next Christianity”; Joseph Stiglitz, “The Roaring Nineties”; William Langewiesche, “American Ground: Unbuilding the World Trade Center” (part three, excerpts); P. J. O'Rourke, “Anything Goes”; Caitlin Flanagan on working mothers; Christopher Hitchens on Lord Byron; fiction by Liza Ward; and much more.
Articles
On the Brink
The need for fundamental changes in politics and policy—and fast
Travail
Lions and Foxes
Different times call for different virtues
The Mother Load
Many of today's working mothers have upper-middle class lifestyles but middle-class aspirations
The Misfortune of Poetry
Byron's dramatic life has become indissoluble from his work
The Next Christianity
We stand at a historical turning point, the author argues—one that is as epochal for the Christian world as the original Reformation. Around the globe Christianity is growing and mutating in ways that observers in the West tend not to see. Tumultuous conflicts within Christianity will leave a mark deeper than Islam's on the century ahead
What Now?
Developments, encouraging and otherwise
Sole Cardinale
A variation on a Baltimore seafood legend
Excerpts From "American Ground: Unbuilding the World Trade Center"
Part Three: The Dance of the Dinosaurs
After nine months of unrivaled access to the disaster site, our correspondent tells the inside story of the recovery effort.Letters to the editor
Tragedy in Ireland
William Trevor's thirteenth novel tells perhaps his saddest story yet
The Utmost Measures
A word in behalf of subjectivity
New & Noteworthy
The best bets in a crowded autumn field
Anything Goes
For three decades the author searched fruitlessly for the perfect city. And then he found it
Reversing White Flight
Even if vouchers don't improve schools, they will almost certainly improve neighborhoods
Out of Our Dreams
Rodgers and Hammerstein's Oklahoma! and Carousel, a model comedy and a model tragedy, created a new theatrical genre
The Roaring Nineties
As the chairman of Bill Clinton's Council of Economic Advisers, and subsequently as the chief economist of the World Bank during the East Asian financial crisis, Joseph Sitglitz was deeply involved in many of the economic-policy debates of the past ten years. What did this experience tell him? That much of what we think we know about the prosperity of the 1990s is wrong. Here is a revised history of the decade, by the winner of the 2001 Nobel Prize in Economics
Word Fugitives
Dancing Lessons
A short story
The Defeat of the Left
On George Orwell, World Cup soccer, and the Queen
Help
Too Little Too Soon
Zadie Smith's new novel is "less felt on every level" than its predecessor; White Teeth
