The Wars of John McCain
Is there any war McCain thinks can’t be won?
October 2008
In This Issue
Jeffrey Goldberg offers a look inside the mind of John McCain; Ross Douthat assesses the relationship between porn and adultery; James Fallows tells the story of two businessman who sought to modernize rural China; Mark Bowden on Football; Andrew Bacevich on the counterinsurgency; Christopher Hitchens on Philip Roth; Jed Perl on the Metropolitan Museum of Art; Wayne Curtis pays a visit to Anne of Green Gables; and much more.
Features
How the West Was Wired
Two idealistic Taiwanese businessmen happened into the most rural part of China and thought: Let’s bring it from the 15th century to the 21st. [Web-only: Slideshow: China's Wild West narrated by James Fallows]
Innocence and Experience
Casanova’s first orgasm, Hitler’s famous mustache, Bob Hope’s last jokes: for every thing, there is a season. Herewith a compilation of great moments in precocity, endurance, and procrastination, organized instructively by age
Distant Replay
How the greatest game in football history looks 50 years later, through the eyes of a modern NFL head coach
Is Pornography Adultery?
It may be closer than you think.
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The Petraeus Doctrine
Iraq-style counterinsurgency is fast becoming the U.S. Army’s organizing principle. Is our military preparing to fight the next war, or the last one?
Calendar
What to watch for in the weeks ahead
Primary Sources
Why we love celebrities; sleepless soldiers; Pakistan's policing problems
Blowback
Is wind the new ethanol?
Planting the Rightroots
Can Republicans find a way to compete on the Web?
All Counterinsurgency Is Local
Prosecuting the war in Afghanistan from provincial capitals has been disastrous; we need to turn our military strategy inside out.
Books
Intolerant Chic
Editor’s Choice: The new “white people” are bigoted, but not the way you think—or they’ll admit.
The Man Who Remade the Met
Unlike most modern museum directors, Philippe de Montebello trusted the public to embrace his high standards—and it did.
Nasty, Brutish, and Short
The narrator of Roth’s Indignation may die off early and horribly—but it’s the reader of this adolescent work who ought to feel the most outraged.
Cover to Cover
A guide to additional releases
Land of Green Gables
[Web-only: Slideshow: Anne's Land narrated by Wayne Curtis]
Half a Loaf
When bakers break up, who gets custody of the recipes?
