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Letters to the Editor The Hollow Army It's only a slight exaggeration to say that the entire U.S. military is either in Iraq, returning from Iraq, or getting ready to go by James Fallows Madonna Wants Me Every political candidate now needs a "celebrity wrangler" by Joshua Green BRIEF LIVES: Marriage Counselor The conservative activist Matt Daniels opposes gay marriage. So why do many conservatives oppose him? by Franklin Foer The Southern Cross What defenders of the Confederate flag should know: the man who created it would have been the first to get rid of it by Joshua Green POST MORTEM: The Imperfect Spy Michael Straight (1916-2004) by Mark Steyn THE LIST: America's Most Wanted by Christopher Shea Primary Sources A suppressed European report on anti-Semitism; how Republicans gain from high taxes; Al Sharpton's taste in hotels THE WORLD IN NUMBERS:
The Unfree World Democracy's faltering progressby Jen Joynt and Marshall Poe The Man Who Would Be Khan Meet Colonel Tom Wilhelm, one of a new breed of soldier-diplomats that has come into being since the end of the Cold War by Robert D. Kaplan The Armageddon Plan During the Reagan era Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld were key players in a clandestine program designed to install a new "President" in the event of a nuclear attack by James Mann We Will Bury You The caretakers of Lenin's corpse have made a killing in post-Soviet Russia by Keith Gessen How Jefferson Counted Himself In Something was funny about the Georgia ballot. Did Thomas Jefferson act properly in making himself President in 1801? by Bruce Ackerman and David Fontana Would Shakespeare Get Into Swarthmore? How several well-known writers would be graded on the new essay portion of the SAT by John Katzman, Andy Lutz, and Erik Olson Rewrite Shakespeare The Diamond Cutter A poem by Thomas Lux [audio] Light Years A poem by Joan Swift The Bell Zygmunt A poem by Jane Hirshfield [audio]  New & Noteworthy The Origins of the Final Solution, by Christopher R. Browning, with contributions by Jürgen Matthäus; Report From a Parisian Paradise, by Joseph Roth; Dresden, by Frederick Taylor; Burying Caesar, by Graham Stewart; Inside Hitler's Bunker, by Joachim Fest; London: Life in the Post-War Years, by Douglas Whitworth reviewed by Benjamin Schwarz An Insidious Evil: An Interview With Christopher BrowningGreat Scot Between Kipling and Fleming stands John Buchan, the father of the modern spy thriller by Christopher Hitchens Fortress of Solitude The Rules of Engagement, by Anita Brookner reviewed by Elizabeth Judd Life Sentence The Amateur Marriage, by Anne Tyler reviewed by Christina Schwarz How Serfdom Saved the Women's Movement Because of "the unmade beds, the children with their endless questions, the tendency of a good fight over housework to stop the talking and the kissing," the author writes, "one of the most profound cultural revolutions in American history came perilously close to running aground." But then the forces of global capitalism solved the problem: America's newly liberated class of educated professional women found itself presented with an army of poor, easily exploited women from other countries who could take care of their children and clean their houses by Caitlin Flanagan The Mother's Dilemma: An Interview With Caitlin FlanaganFICTION: Dependents by Mona Simpson  INNOCENT BYSTANDER: The Next Testament If the Bible were being compiled for the first time right now, what would we put in it? Making the case for a NEW new revised standard version by Cullen Murphy MUSIC: God's Lonely Man Johnny Cash was a Christian who didn't cast stones, a patriot who wasn't a bully by Francis Davis MOVIES: When the Front Page Meets the Big Screen Hollywood is not a reliable moral arbiter of anything, so it's not surprising that when it holds a mirror up to journalism, Shattered Glass is the result by Mark Bowden The Puzzler by Emily Cox and Henry Rathvon Word Fugitives by Barbara Wallraff
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