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Letters to the Editor Lessons of Abu Ghraib One shocking thing about the photographs is that for some people they weren't shocking by Mark Bowden SECURITY Plan of Attack The United States is not just facing an insurgency in Iraq—it's facing "netwar," the newest kind by Bruce Hoffman BRIEF LIVES The Pragmatist The UN's Lakhdar Brahimi understands that neither peace nor justice may be possible in Iraq by Laura Secor THE LIST Olympic Elite The world's most athletic nations by Nathan Littlefield AT LARGE I Agree With Me When was the last time a conservative talk show changed a mind? by P. J. O'Rourke THE ODDS Saddam’s Fate Since his capture, last December, Saddam Hussein has been held by the U.S. military. He is no doubt wondering about his eventual fate, and so are others. by Marshall Poe All the President’s Memoirists A picture of life inside the Bush White House, as captured by former members of the Administration in recent books POST MORTEM Sell the Holbein, Keep the House The Duke of Devonshire (1920-2004) by Mark Steyn Primary Sources A report card on Iraq; why gambling is good for business; the Muslim passion for Mel Gibson; winners and losers in the modern marriage pool THE NATION IN NUMBERS Resegregation’s Aftermath by Brad Holst  When George Meets John A viewer's guide to this fall's version of "asymmetric warfare"— the presidential debates. by James Fallows Dumb and Dumber Why are campaign commercials so bad? by Joshua Green Pompadour With a Monkey Wrench Al Sharpton's goal has never been the presidency; he wants to become the leader of Black America. Problem is, that job no longer exists. by Mark Bowden Kerry Faces the World What would a John Kerry foreign policy look like? In some ways a lot like one the current President's father could endorse by Joshua Micah Marshall Five Days in Fallujah Our correspondent accompanied the first unit of Marines to assault Fallujah after the murder and mutilation last April of four American civilians. by Robert D. Kaplan INTERVIEWS In the Line of FireEnemy Americans Jose Padilla and Yaser Esam Hamdi are American citizens. The Bush Administration has claimed the right to imprison them indefinitely without charge or trial, on the grounds that they are "enemy combatants" in the war on terror. Does a new kind of war require new kinds of laws? by Benjamin Wittes Aweigh A master and commander decides, after a lifetime on the water, that he will no longer go down to the sea by William F. Buckley Jr. POETRY Gift by Brooks Haxton How to Pick the Winner ... by Seymour Chwast POETRY Denial [with audio] by Leonard Nathan  New & Noteworthy Landon Carter's Uneasy Kingdom, by Rhys Isaac; Hatchet Jobs, by Dale Peck; The North American Prairie, by Stephen R. Jones and Ruth Carol Cushman; The Crow Indians, by Robert H. Lowie; War Under Heaven, by Gregory Evans Dowd; Europe's Last Summer: Who Started the Great War in 1914?, by David Fromkin; The First World War, by Hew Strachan; Cataclysm: The First World War as Political Tragedy, by David Stevenson; The Killing Ground, by Tim Travers by Benjamin Schwarz The Kids Are All Right Teens aren't as warped as some of the books about them by Tom Carson The Old Man Even for educated readers, Leon Trotsky survives as part kitsch and part caricature. But the reissue of a majestic biography reveals him as he always was—a prophetic moralist by Christopher Hitchens Odd Couple Susan Sontag and Pauline Kael: a curious combination by David Thomson NEW FICTION Laff Tracks Four Souls, by Louise Erdrich. by Jon Zobenica The Terrors One of the foremost scholars of Soviet history assesses an ambitious new biography of Stalin by Robert Conquest  INNOCENT BYSTANDER Wonders Never Cease Updating Philon of Byzantium's famous list by Cullen Murphy PERSONAL FILE Organize Your Life! The modern condition is to be overwhelmed by everything. Now comes David Allen, who can teach even you how to stop stewing and start doing by James Fallows MUSIC One Swell Party Cole Porter's real secret was not the gay life a new film biography will highlight. It was how he made his songs by David Schiff FICTION The One in White "Captain," I say, "you've got about two hundred Mexican soldiers waiting for you in the plaza." by Robert Olen Butler INTERVIEWS Faraway VoicesTHE PUZZLER Room With a View by Emily Cox and Henry Rathvon Word Fugitives by Barbara Wallraff Proper-Name Index by Benjamin Healy |
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