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CalendarLetters to the Editor  COMMENT Remote Control The Supreme Court's greatest failing is not ideological bias—it's the justices' increasingly tenuous grasp of how the real world works by Stuart Taylor Jr. COMMENT Without Precedent Actually, the Supreme Court's problem is not merely disconnection from the real world—it's also arrogance, dishonesty, grandiosity, and a lack of respect for principle, history, or logic by Benjamin Wittes MEDIA On Condition of Anonymity by Walter Shapiro PHOTO OP "Blue Expects That Every Man Will Do His Duty" photograph by Stephen Hird BRIEF LIVES Waiting for Sarko Will Nicolas Sarkozy vanquish his mentor Jacques Chirac to become France's first "American" president? by Charles Trueheart THE LIST Assassination Attempts by Michael Slenske Primary Sources Terrorism tallies; do good grades cost minority kids popularity?; the long-term benefits of nonviolence; why athletes should wear red Compiled by Matthew Quirk and Ross Douthat THE WORLD IN NUMBERS Nature's Wrath A field guide by Matthew Quirk  In a Ruined Country How Yasir Arafat destroyed Palestine by David Samuels INTERVIEWS The Father of PalestineOne of Our Whales Is Missing In which Rick Renard, PR hustler par excellence, sets out to save Grimland's gentle giants of the deep. A short story by Christopher Buckley The Holy Cow! Candidate Mitt Romney, the governor of Massachusetts, loves data, hates waste, and reveres Dwight Eisenhower. He's also the Next Big Thing in the Republican Party. But can anyone so clean-cut, so pure of character, and (by gosh!) so square overcome the "two Ms"—Mormonism and Massachusetts—to be our next president? by Sridhar Pappu Lost Verizon Intercepted phone call outside the gates of Vienna, recently declassified by Evan Eisenberg  EDITOR'S CHOICE He Found It at the Movies James Agee: Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, A Death in the Family, Shorter Fiction and James Agee: Film Writing & Selected Journalism, edited by Michael Sragow; Louis I. Kahn, by Robert McCarter; Tired of Weeping, by Jónína Einarsdóttir; The Chosen, by Jerome Karabel by Benjamin Schwarz and Editor's Choice Hobbes in the Himalayas The situation in horrible, magical modern Kashmir—where East battles East in a war that fuses the psychopathic and the apocalyptic—defies political analysis. But Salman Rushdie's new novel captures it as nothing else can by Christopher Hitchens INTERVIEWS The Limits of ToleranceREADING LIST Gender Bending Men's books that women should read by Terry Castle The Great Escape A grudging salute to an absentee mom by Sandra Tsing Loh New Fiction Antwerp, by Nicholas Royle by Joseph O'Neill If Pigs Could Swim Why our farm animals would be better off on the other side of the Atlantic by B. R. Myers A Close Read Perfect Strangers and Other Stories, by Roxana Robinson by Christina Schwarz BEST SELLERS ABROAD India by Allen Salkin  PRIVATE LIFE The XY Files Forgoing a trip down the aisle, our correspondent heads straight to the sperm bank. But does she want the Truffaut aficionado or the mentor to underprivileged kids? by Lori Gottlieb FLASHBACKS The Varieties of Reproductive ExperienceTHE PUZZLER Lost and Found by Emily Cox and Henry Rathvon Word Court by Barbara Wallraff POST MORTEM The Pariah Guy Edward J. von Kloberg III (1942—2005) by Mark Steyn Who's Who A selective index to this month's issue Compiled by Benjamin Healy |
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