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77 North Washington StreetCalendar Letters to the Editor  COMMENT Will Israel Live to 100? Don't be seduced by the recent hopeful signs: in the long run the Israeli-Palestinian conflict will remain a problem without a solution by Benjamin Schwarz THE MILITARY Gas Pains One of the U.S. military's greatest vulnerabilities in Iraq is its enormous appetite for fuel. The insurgents have figured this out by Robert Bryce BRIEF LIVES The Apocalypse, Rated PG Can a socially conservative Christian Republican succeed in Hollywood? Philip Anschutz is betting he can by Ross Douthat CARTOON Inflation by Istvan Banyai THE LIST White House Chefs by Tyler Cabot THE ART OF POLICY Freedom, Responsibility … and What? Social Security reform—an explanation by P. J. O'Rourke THE ODDS After Kim Jong Il by Terrence Henry POLITICS It Isn't the Message, Stupid A new kind of guru is convincing Democrats that they don't need new ideas after all—a snazzy new sales pitch will revive their fortunes by Joshua Green CROSS-EXAMINATION The Hapless Toad Amid all the liberal hysteria about the threats posed by a conservative Supreme Court, one threat tends to be ignored—and it happens to be the biggest one by Benjamin Wittes MATTERS OF SUBSTANCE How to Beat a Drug Test by Marshall Poe Primary Sources Why you shouldn't trust your real-estate agent; the financial cost of expelling gays from the military; how to spot a crooked CEO  In the Footsteps of Tocqueville How does America look to foreign eyes? This year marks the bicentennial of the birth of Alexis de Tocqueville, our keenest interpreter. We asked another Frenchman to travel deep into America and report on what he found by Bernard-Henri Lévy INTERVIEWS America in Foreign EyesOn Becoming American What does it take for an immigrant to shift from "you" to "we"? by Christopher Hitchens The Coming Death Shortage Why the longevity boom will make us sorry to be alive by Charles C. Mann Hotel Baghdad Fear and lodging in Iraq by William Langewiesche POETRY WYSSA [with audio] by Elizabeth Bradfield POETRY Bat [with audio] by Mark Jarman Boat Ride A drawing by Guy Billout  EDITOR'S CHOICE Eminent Domains The Sky's the Limit, by Steven Gaines; London 1945, by Maureen Waller; The Command of the Ocean, by N. A. M. Rodger by Benjamin Schwarz A Bag of Tired Tricks Blank pages? Photos of mating tortoises? The death throes of the postmodern novel by B. R. Myers READING LIST Retail Therapy Five fictional reasons not to pay full price by Sally Singer The Man Who Ended Slavery Slandered by craven abolitionists as unhinged, John Brown was in fact an eloquent, cool-headed tactician who succeeded in his long-range plan: launching a civil war by Christopher Hitchens FLASHBACKS John Brown in The AtlanticNew Fiction Never Let Me Go, by Kazuo Ishiguro by Joseph O'Neill INTERVIEWS Myths and MetaphorsNew Fiction Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami by Jon Zobenica The Big Shill Hollywood's need for hits creates a culture of misses by Tom Carson A Close Read The Good Wife, by Stewart O'Nan by Christina Schwarz BEST SELLERS ABROAD China by Sean Creehan  FOOD The Kosher Conversion The market for kosher food is growing, for reasons both practical and spiritual by Corby Kummer THE PUZZLER Sightseeing by Emily Cox and Henry Rathvon Word Fugitives by Barbara Wallraff POST MORTEM The Marrying Kind Owen Allred (1914-2005) by Mark Steyn Who's Who A selective index to this month's issue Compiled by Benjamin Healy |
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