Vol. 43 No. 1-2, January 2011
Index
- The jiujitsu kid.
- Tilting at windmills.
- What he should say in the state of the union.
- A time against race: last year Mitch Landrieu became the first white mayor of New Orleans in three decades. He did so by garnering majority support from citizens of both races--the rarest of achievements in American politics. How long can he hold it all together?
- Get the energy sector off the dole: why ending all government subsidies for fuel production will lead to a cleaner energy future--and why Obama has a rare chance to make it happen.
- Goodnight moon: will America ever escape the shadow of Apollo?
- Solitary confinement: Tony Judt thought a great deal about dignity. His final book, written while the author was dying of ALS, is the epitome of it.
- Valley forged: early American counterfeiters and their heirs on Wall Street.
- Guerillas in the Mist: Peter Bergen blows away the political fog surrounding our war against al-Qaeda.
- The greater terror: in his masterful new history, Timothy Snyder portrays Stalin's and Hitler's mass exterminations as flip sides of the same genocide--one that was both more horrible and less unique than we thought.