How the Crash Will Reshape America
The meltdown will affect more than our economy. It will forever change our geography.
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March 2009
In This Issue
Richard Florida on how the crash will reshape America; Paul Elie on the Archbishop of Canterbury; Corby Kummer on cupcakes; Mark Bowden on rebuilding the Air Force; Christopher Hitchens on Samuel Johnson; Michael Hirschorn on the cheese-ification of network TV; and much more.
Features
The Last Ace
As American air superiority declines, and the age of fighter jocks returns, we're going to need more men like Cesar Rodriguez.
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Prison Blocks
Incarceration exacts a terrible toll on New Orleans
The Velvet Reformation
Can Rowan Williams save the Anglican Church from itself?
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Tragic Heroes
What today’s veterans can learn from tales of the Trojan War
Steven Vidler/Eurasia Press/Corbis Sayonara, Prada
Why Japan’s young consumers are turning away from luxury goods
Cops and Squatters
On the foreclosure beat in San Bernardino
Musical Chairs
Michael Pettis is a finance pundit by day, a Beijing rock impresario by (very late) night.
Iwan Bagus Not So Guilty Pleasure
If only somebody could get the cupcake right
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Scott Stuntz, right: Wayne Curtis All the Street’s a Stage
New Orleans still has a way of making you feel as if you’ve been tippling, even when you’re stone sober.
Michael Byers 2008 / Levy Creative Management, NYC Pipe Dreams
The quest for pure drinking water in an imperfect world
Books
Jacky Marshall From Designers’ Designers
Three books on three couturiers who rank among the greatest America has produced
Richard Thompson Class Dismissed
A new status anxiety is infecting affluent hipdom
Ryan Graber Demons and Dictionaries
A new book dissects Dr. Johnson’s pathologies and despair.
Rachel Ann Lindsay Cover to Cover
Dopes on a rope; northern lights; exhuming Fleming; classless etiquette; and more
Columns
Mark Hooper My Drug Problem
The cancer drug Herceptin saved the author’s life. It also cost ,000. Would health-care reform put it, and other expensive new drugs, out of reach?
Jeremy Traum School of Rock
What does Guitar Hero’s popularity mean for the future of rock and roll?
Dee Conway/Lebrecht Music and Arts The Future Is Cheese
Why the networks are surrendering prime time to Jay Leno and the Lord of the Dance
Also in this issue
Jason Ford/Heart Agency What's Your Problem?
Eat this magazine, and other advice
Other articles in this issue
Quick Study
Cyberwar is hell; paranormal psychology
Peter Arkle In a Word
Laundry as lingua franca; flow stoppers
