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Calendar Letters to the Editor  COMMENT The Perils of Primacy When too much power means not enough security by Benjamin Schwarz PHOTO OP Sects in the Cité by Alexandra Boulat POLITICS Company, Left There's something different about the latest crop of military veterans running for Congress by Joshua Green FOREIGN AFFAIRS Man Versus Mine Iraqi insurgents have perfected the use of lethal explosives, with profound implications for our military operations in Iraq by Robert Bryce THE LIST Invasion of the Privacy Snatchers by Matthew Quirk CROSS-EXAMINATION Whose Court Is It Really? John Roberts is the new chief justice, but the Supreme Court isn't his to lead just yet by Benjamin Wittes Primary Sources The religion effect; a less violent world; one (very good) reason to resist early retirement by Marshall Poe, Ross Douthat and Abigail Cutler THE NATION IN NUMBERS The Border Illegal immigration is once again a potent political issue by Ross Douthat and Jenny Woodson  The Year of two Popes How Joseph Ratzinger stepped into the shoes of John Paul II—and what it means for the Catholic Church by Paul Elie INTERVIEWS Behind the Scenes at the VaticanThe Point of No Return First Pakistan's A.Q. Khan showed that any country could have made a nuclear bomb. Then he showed—not once but three times—why the nuclear trade will never be shut down by William Langewiesche INTERVIEWS The World in Which We LiveThe George W. Bush Presidential Library An unauthorized preview, with never-before -seen drawings of the interior by Cullen Murphy and Edward Sorel 150 YEARS OF THE ATLANTIC Politics & Presidents The first in a series of archival excerpts in honor of the magazine's 150th anniversary. POETRY The Anthem If famous poets had written "The Star-Spangled Banner" by Garrison Keillor POETRY North and South Selections from the notebooks of Elizabeth Bishop COMING SOON A Conversation With Alice QuinnFarewell A drawing by Guy Billout STATE OF THE UNION The Values Racket by the Editors STATE OF THE UNION Why the Culture War Is the Wrong War It's time to challenge the metaphor—and the easy caricatures of left and right that sustain it by E. J. Dionne Jr. STATE OF THE UNION Tribal Relations How Americans really sort out on cultural and religious issues—and what it means for our politics by Steven Waldman and John C. Green STATE OF THE UNION Misfit America Is our evolving national character a liability in our foreign relations? by Paul Starobin STATE OF THE UNION Executive Privilege The CEOs of too many public companies enjoy the power and rewards of ownership without the risks. by Clive Crook STATE OF THE UNION Two Cheers for Hypocrisy As the Gallup Organization has discovered, the young are another country—and one day it's going to be ours by P. J. O'Rourke TIMELINE Milestones in the Culture Wars  EDITOR'S CHOICE The Not-So-Second City Chicago Architecture and Design, by Jay Pridmore and George A. Larson; Chicago Architecture: Histories, Revisions, Alternatives, edited by Charles Waldheim and Katerina Rüedi Ray; Building Jerusalem: The Rise and Fall of the Victorian City by Benjamin Schwarz Are You There God? It's Me, Monica How nice girls got so casual about oral sex by Caitlin Flanagan READING LIST Mommies Dearest Top literary reasons why it sucks to have chic parents by Sally Singer New fiction The Accidental by Ali Smith by Joseph O'Neill New Fiction Arthur & George, by Julian Barnes by Elizabeth Judd Downhill All the Way An adroit new history of the British Empire in the post-Victorian era by Christopher Hitchens NEW FICTION A Close Read Leaving Home, by Anita Brookner by Christina Schwarz BEST SELLERS ABROAD Turkey by Jeffrey Tayler  TRAVELS Nova Scotia, Mon Amour The province's quirks and inaccessibility are its very charms by Alex Beam MUSIC The Singing Epidemic All of a sudden everybody wants to be a jazz singer—and a few are actually good at it by Francis Davis FOOD Domestic Reserves Americans no longer need to look abroad to satisfy their need for oil—Tuscan-style olive oil, that is by Corby Kummer THE PUZZLER Mysterious Island by Emily Cox and Henry Rathvon Word Court by Barbara Wallraff POST MORTEM Moustapha, Messenger of Hollywood Moustapha Akkad (1935-2005) by Mark Steyn Who's Who A selective index to this month's issue by Benjamin Healy |
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