David Foster Wallace, "Host"; Jeffrey Rosen, "Rehnquist the Great?"; Robert D. Kaplan, "America's African Rifles"; James Fallows, "Getting Out Right"; Michael Scheuer, "Inside Out"; Joshua Green, "The Air America Plan"; Christopher Hitchens, "Civilization and Its Malcontents"; Timothy W. Ryback, "The Hitler Shrine"; fiction by Michael Lohre; and much more.
"The key to the John Ziegler Show," says the angry, outraged, and apocalyptically gleeful talk-radio host John Ziegler, "is that I am almost completely real." A report from deep inside the mercenary world of take-no-prisoners political talk radio
Even liberals may come to regard William Rehnquist as one of the most successful chief justices of the century
"Every time you fire, a bad guy should bleed!" At the heart of the U.S. military's imperial venture is the training of indigenous troops around the world—and at the heart of that training is the rifle range. A report from Niger
"He wanted to thank God for his life, and he did. He didn't know what was next, but saw no point in being fearful now"
Warnings from many experts went unheeded before we entered Iraq. Let's listen as we prepare to "shape the exit"
Why it's so hard to infiltrate al-Qaeda
Liberal talk radio is off the ground. Will the electorate turn blue, or just red in the face?
Campaign-finance reform—an explanation
Most of what we learn from confirmation hearings for a Supreme Court chief justice will be misleading or irrelevant
Smart women stay single; why religious Americans fear Muslims; Israel's surprisingly bright demographic future; are the left-handed better in a fight?
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Against the Beast, edited by John Nichols; War and the Iliad, by Simone Weil and Rachel Bespaloff; Understanding Dante, by John A. Scott
Three recent books reveal the grand delusions of the Democratic Party
Five books by extremely engaging misogynists
Follies and New Stories, by Ann Beattie
Alongside a "peace" demonstration in London, a crisis of micro-terrorism
How We Are Hungry, by Dave Eggers
Rightly championed for decades by genre and literary readers alike, John le Carré has written a novel that may appeal to neither camp
March, by Geraldine Brooks
A luxury hotel has opened next to the site of Adolf Hitler's notorious mountain retreat, the Berghof
Rose Mary Woods (1917-2005)
A selective index to this month's issue
Go-ahead at Gitmo; the People's economist; Caesar renders unto you
Remembering Peter Davison
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