November 2002

Articles

• The Kabul-ki Dance

  Inside the cockpit with the pilots and wizzos of the 391st Fighter Squadron, the top guns of America's air war in Afghanistan

  Mark Bowden

• Superiority Complex

  We have democratized elitism in this country. Now everybody can be a snob

  David Brooks

• The Fifty-First State?

  Going to war with Iraq would mean shouldering all the responsibilities of an occupying power the moment victory was achieved. These would include running the economy, keeping domestic peace, and protecting Iraq's borders—and doing it all for years, or perhaps decades. Are we ready for this long-term relationship?

  James Fallows

• A Seventeenth-century Modern

  Samuel Pepys did not, in fact, tell us everything

  Philip Hensher

• Political Animals

  A new book asks all the right questions about animal rights, even if it doesn't canvass all the possible answers

  Christopher Hitchens

• What Now?

  Developments, encouraging and otherwise

  Michael Kelly

• Quinoa Soup

  A traditional staple of the high, cool Andes

  Corby Kummer

• The End of the West

  The next clash of civilizations will not be between the West and the rest but between the United States and Europe—and Americans remain largely oblivious

  Charles A. Kupchan

• Notes from Antiquity

  Watching a play by Euripides or reading poetry by Sappho is perhaps as incomplete an experience today as watching a "play" by Wagner or reading "poetry" by Stephen Sondheim would be

  Toby Lester

• "Our Saint, Our Umpire"

  An appreciation of Mary McCarthy, whose literary and political writing is well represented in a new anthology

  Thomas Mallon

• My Way

  Getting in touch with your inner Turkmenbashi

  Cullen Murphy

• New & Noteworthy

  What to read this month

  Benjamin Schwarz

• No Apparent Motive

  A chilling characteristic of politicians is that they're not in it for the money

  P. J. O'Rourke

• Other Reviews

• Ranking the Movie Presidents

  Four distinguished historians rate our celluloid Chief Executives

• Primary Sources

  Selections from recent reports, studies, and other documents

• Varieties of Religious Experience

  A short story

  John Updike

• Word Court

  Barbara Wallraff

• A Post-Saddam Scenario

  Iraq could become America's primary staging ground in the Middle East. And the greatest beneficial effect could come next door, in Iran

  Robert D. Kaplan

• Sir David Brewster's Toy

  Richard Wilbur

• Letters to the Editors

• Home Thoughts From Abroad

  Travel is largely a matter of enjoying differences, but this is seldom a permanent pleasure 

  Jan Morris

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