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Current Issue: Winter 2012
Lessons of the Great Depression
- Great Recession or Mini-Depression?
by Robert Z. Aliber - The Debt Bomb by Louis Hyman
- Revisiting the Great Depression by Robert J. Samuelson
Man as Machine
by Max ByrdA peculiar experiment inspired by the Enlightenment sheds light on the age-old question of what makes us human.
My Own Private Nietzsche: An American Story
by Jennifer Ratner-RosenhagenThe German philosopher whose ideas would leave an indelible mark on Europe was embraced by Americans eager to see in him a reflection of their own image.
Pakistan’s Most Dangerous Place
by Zahid HussainPakistan’s remote and poorly understood tribal region has emerged as key to the future of both Pakistan and Afghanistan.
In Essence
Being Muslim in America
THE SOURCE: “The Muslim-American Muddle” by Peter Skerry, in National Affairs, Fall 2011.Body of Proof
THE SOURCE: “Post-Mortem Imaging as an Alternative to Autopsy in the Diagnosis of Adult Deaths: A Validation Study” by Ian S. D. Roberts, Rachel E. Benamore, Emyr W. Benbow, Stephen H. Lee, Jonathan N. Harris, Alan Jackson, Susan Mallett, Tufail Patankar, Charles Peebles, Carl Roobottom, and Zoe C. Traill, in The Lancet, Nov. 22, 2011 (online).Brazil’s Popularity Problem
THE SOURCE: “A Leader Without Followers? The Growing Divergence Between the Regional and Global Performance of Brazilian Foreign Policy” by Andrés Malamud, in Latin American Politics and Society, Fall 2011.Capitalism, Chinese Style
THE SOURCE: “China’s Changing Guanxi Capitalism: Private Entrepreneurs Between Leninist Control and Relentless Accumulation” by Christopher A. McNally, in Business and Politics, Aug. 2011.Checkpoints, Not Checks
THE SOURCE: “Do Working Men Rebel? Insurgency and Unemployment in Afghanistan, Iraq, and the Philippines” by Eli Berman, Michael Callen, Joseph H. Felter, and Jacob N. Shapiro, in Journal of Conflict Resolution, Aug. 2011.Climate Patterns
THE SOURCE: “Climate on Cable: The Nature and Impact of Global Warming Coverage on Fox News, CNN, and MSNBC” by Lauren Feldman, Edward W. Maibach, Connie Roser-Renouf, and Anthony Leiserowitz, in The International Journal of Press/Politics, Nov. 2, 2011 (online).Democracy Deferred
THE SOURCE: “Morocco: In the Kingdom of Illusions” by Martine Gozlan, in World Policy Journal, Fall 2011.For Love or Money
THE SOURCE: “Big Criticism” by Evan Kindley, in Critical Inquiry, Autumn 2011.Harding’s Hidden Halo
THE SOURCE: “Time for Another Harding?” by Ronald Radosh and Allis Radosh, in The Weekly Standard, Oct. 24, 2011.Holy Rights
THE SOURCE: “The Church of Labor” by Lew Daly, in Democracy: A Journal of Ideas, Fall 2011.India's Musical Menace
THE SOURCE: “That Ban(e) of Indian Music: Hearing Politics in the Harmonium” by Matt Rahaim, in The Journal of Asian Studies, Aug. 2011.Indispensable No More
THE SOURCE: “The End of the American Era” by Stephen M. Walt, in The National Interest, Nov.–Dec. 2011.It Was the Economy, Stupid
THE SOURCE: “Free Trade, Sovereignty, and Slavery: Toward an Economic Interpretation of American Independence” by Staughton Lynd and David Waldstreicher, in William and Mary Quarterly, Oct. 2011.Mending Malpratice
THE SOURCE: “Dropped Medical Malpractice Claims: Their Surprising Frequency, Apparent Causes, and Potential Remedies” by Dwight Golann, in Health Affairs, July 2011.Polarization Without Parties
THE SOURCE: “The American Political Parties Are Breaking Down” by Walter Russell Mead, in Via Meadia (blog), Oct. 31, 2011.Protectionist Psych
THE SOURCE: “Explaining Mass Support for Agricultural Protectionism: Evidence From a Survey Experiment During the Global Recession” by Megumi Naoi and Ikuo Kume, in International Organization, Fall 2011.Retractions Under the Microscope
THE SOURCE: “The Trouble With Retractions” by Richard Van Noorden, in Nature, Oct. 6, 2011.Squawk Box
THE SOURCE: “Understanding the Rise of Talk Radio” by Jeffrey M. Berry and Sarah Sobieraj, in PS: Political Science & Politics, Oct. 2011.Stand By Taiwan
THE SOURCE: “Should the United States Abandon Taiwan?” by Nancy Bernkopf Tucker and Bonnie Glaser, in The Washington Quarterly, Fall 2011.Staying Put
THE SOURCE: “Internal Migration in the United States” by Raven Molloy, Christopher L. Smith, and Abigail Wozniak, in Journal of Economic Perspectives, Summer 2011.The Empty Threat of Cyberwar
THE SOURCE: “Cyber War Will Not Take Place” by Thomas Rid, in Journal of Strategic Studies, Feb. 2012.The Postpartisan Folly
THE SOURCE: “The Mirage” by Sean Wilentz, in The New Republic, Nov. 17, 2011.The Warhol Bubble
THE SOURCE: “A One-Man Market” by Bryan Appleyard, in Intelligent Life, Nov.–Dec. 2011.The Westphalian Mirage
THE SOURCE: “To Order the Minds of Scholars: The Discourse of the Peace of Westphalia in International Relations Literature” by Sebastian Schmidt, in International Studies Quarterly, Sept. 2011.Ukrainian Gloom
THE SOURCE: “Counterrevolution in Kiev” by Rajan Menon and Alexander J. Motyl, in Foreign Affairs, Nov.–Dec. 2011.Current Books
A Man of Conscience
ROGER WILLIAMS AND THE CREATION OF THE AMERICAN SOUL:Church, State, and the Birth of Liberty.
By John M. Barry.
Viking. 464 pp. $35.
Building Up
THE HEIGHTS:Anatomy of a Skyscraper.
By Kate Ascher.
Penguin Press. 207 pp. $35
Continental Rift
THE NORTH AMERICAN IDEA:A Vision of a Continental Future.
By Robert A. Pastor.
Oxford Univ. Press. 264 pp. $24.95
Jesus H. Jones
UNPRECEDENTED POWER:Jesse Jones, Capitalism, and the Common Good.
By Steven Fenberg.
Texas A&M; Univ. Press. 611 pp. $35
Mythical City
ROME:A Cultural, Visual, and Personal History.
By Robert Hughes.
Knopf. 498 pp. $35
New Life for Old Cities
SMALL, GRITTY, AND GREEN:The Promise of America's Smaller Industrial Cities in a Low-Carbon World.
By Catherine Tumber.
MIT Press. 211 pp. $24.95
No Man’s Land
GUANTÁNAMO:An American History.
By Jonathan M. Hansen.
Hill & Wang. 428 pp. $35
Papa's Beginnings
THE LETTERS OF ERNEST HEMINGWAY:Volume 1, 1907-1922.
Edited by Sandra Spanier and Robert W. Trogdon.
Cambridge Univ. Press. 431 pp. $40
Pointed Questions
GOD’S JURY:The Inquisition and the Making of the Modern World.
By Cullen Murphy.
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. 310 pp. $27
The Uncontainable Diplomat
GEORGE F. KENNAN:An American Life.
By John Lewis Gaddis.
Penguin Press. 784 pp. $39.95
Then She Came to the End
BLUE NIGHTSBy Joan Didion.
Knopf, 188p. $25.
True Believers
A THOUSAND LIVES:The Untold Story of Hope, Deception, and Survival at Jonestown.
By Julia Scheeres.
Free Press. 307 pp. $26
What's Next?
NEW:Understanding Our Need for Novelty and Change.
By Winifred Gallagher.
Penguin Press. 259 pp. $25.95