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Letters to the Editor COMMENT The Stakes in 2004 The coming presidential election may be the most important in generations by Michael Barone BRIEF LIVES The Natural Why is Barack Obama generating more excitement among Democrats than John Kerry? by Ryan Lizza POLITICS Dixie Chicks A new kind of Democrat is emerging in the South—and she's no shrinking violet by Alexandra Starr THE ODDS Who Will be the Next President? The market speaks by Nathan Littlefield PHENOMENON Nader Republicans by Nathan Littlefield FOREIGN AFFAIRS Ayatollah Democracy Arrogant, dogmatic, and anti-American, Iraq's Shiite clerics are the last people enlightened Westerners want to see in power. Let's hope they prevail by Reuel Marc Gerecht THE LIST Private Military Contractors A buyer's guide by Matthew Quirk VERBATIM Rumsfeld’s Rules Revisited by Ross Douthat CONVERSATION Adult-Male-Elephant Diplomacy Colin Powell talks about Iraq, the Cold War, his place in the Administration, and chilling "the ambitions of the evil" by P. J. O'Rourke INTERVIEWS A Conversation With Colin Powell Colin Powell and P. J. O'Rourke discuss foreign policy, Volvos, Elvis, and more. The full transcript of an interview from the September 2004 AtlanticPrimary Sources The U.S. prison system as a terrorist university; why the suburbs make you fat; the "happiness-maximizing" number of sex partners NATION IN NUMBERS The God Vote by Ross Douthat  Inside Al-Qaeda’s Hard Drive Budget squabbles, baby pictures, office rivalries—and the path to 9/11 by Alan Cullison The Hollywood Campaign Want big money to get elected to national office? If you're a Democrat, you need to head for the hills—Beverly Hills. by Eric Alterman In Search of a Pope Media commentators love to speculate about the power politics of the next conclave. They keep forgetting about the most important factor of all by Paul Elie More Nixon Tapes Fresh talk about the Irish, the Africans, the Ivy League, and Chairman "Mayo." A selection from recently released recordings in the National Archives. by James Warren FICTION Florence of Arabia How one woman (plus a disgraced Green Beret, a shameless PR lackey, and the wife of a sheikh) brought the Middle East to the brink of female emancipation. A short story by Christopher Buckley INTERVIEWS Veiled OptimismPOETRY Peaceable Kingdom [with audio] by Henry Taylor  NEW & NOTEWORTHY Wolves, Actors, Jihadis Vicious, by Jon Coleman; Who the Hell's in It, by Peter Bogdanovich; Imperial Hubris, by Anonymous; Heloise & Abelard, by James Burge by Benjamin Schwarz Policy Wank Bill Clinton's sodden memoir goes into all the wrong detail by Tom Carson Mother of All Mothers The leadership secrets of Kim Jong Il by B. R. Myers READING LIST Mirror, Mirror Astonishing memoirs by (and about) deeply repellent people by Terry Castle The Immortal A new biography reaches the heart of the labyrinth—the intense and wondrous life of Jorge Luis Borges by Christopher Hitchens  INNOCENT BYSTANDER Witless Protection Coping with the sixteenth minute by Cullen Murphy 50 YEARS AGO IN THE ATLANTIC “When Russia Is Ready” In the run-up to the invasion of Iraq, the question of whether protecting U.S. national security warranted a preventive war was fiercely debated. The question was not new. In the September 1954 Atlantic, Thomas K. Finletter, who had recently served as the Secretary of the Air Force, broached it in a very different context. FOOD Principled Pork "Sustainable farming" is now open to debate and commercial exploitation. But sustainable pork certainly tastes the way pork should by Corby Kummer THE PUZZLER Chain Links by Emily Cox and Henry Rathvon Word Court by Barbara Wallraff POST MORTEM The Lord’s Music and the Devil’s Words by Mark Steyn Proper-Name Index by Benjamin Healy |
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