May 2003
In This Issue
Gregg Easterbrook, “Long Shot”; Timothy W. Ryback, “Hitler's Forgotten Library”; Jonathan Rauch, “Let It Be”; David Brooks, “What Whitman Knew”; Christopher Hitchens, “The Permanent Adolescent”; Bernard Lewis, “I'm Right, You're Wrong, Go to Hell”; fiction by Geeta Sharma Jensen; and much more.
Articles
The Permanent Adolescent
His vices made Evelyn Waugh a king of comedy and of tragedy
A Good Country
A short story
Euphorias of Hatred
The grim lessons of a novel by Gogol
What Now?
A letter from Kuwait City
Back To Grass
The old way of raising cattle is now the new way—better for the animals and better for your table
"I'm Right, You're Wrong, Go To Hell"
Religions and the meeting of civilization
New & Noteworthy
What to read this month
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.
Let It Be
The greatest development in modern religion is not a religion at all—it's an attitude best described as "apatheism"
Hitler's Forgotten Library:
You can tell a lot about a person from what he reads. The surviving—and largely ignored—remnants of Adolf Hitler's personal library reveal a deep but erratic interest in religion and theology
The Baby Experts
The high anxiety of child-rearing
Not Green, Not Red, Not Pink
Oscar Wilde cannot be simplified into an Irish rebel, a subversive socialist, or a gay martyr
The Fall of the House of Saud
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 country is run by an increasingly dysfunctional royal family that has been funding militant Islamic movements abroad in an attempt to protect itself from them at home. A former CIA operative argues, in an article drawn form his new book, Sleeping With the Devil, that today's Saudi Arabia can't last much longer—and the social and economic fallout of its demise could be calamitous
What Whitman Knew
Walt Whitman's "Democratic Vistas" is still the most trenchant explanation of American policies and ambitions
Long Shot
Defying the odds, even before the recent loss of the space shuttle Columbia, an eccentric company called Sea Launch has become the first private enterprise to send large rockets into space—from an enormous floating launch pad that sails to the equator for blast-off. Has the era of private space travel begun?
The Olden Mean
When the posthuman future meets our pre-posthuman selves
Letters to the Editors
Other Reviews
