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Fall 2009 Articles

Dear Mr. President . . . Read Your Kipling Rudyard Kipling was the voice of British imperialism. Perhaps President Obama should read a few of his poems, lest he forget how well things went in Afghanistan 100 years ago. Fall 09 (abstract)
Feeble Critiques: Capitalism's Petty Detractors Last year's financial crisis has been touted as a cataclysm akin to the fall of Communism, but Jagdish Bhagwati argues that such comparisons exaggerate the problem--and free marketers need not apologize for liberal policies. Fall 09
Letter from the Editor: Fall 2009 The number of minutes the networks devoted each month to the war at its height amounted to roughly half of what it was in Vietnam. And, by 2008, that number had declined to a tenth of what it was in 2003. Fall 09
Mullahs on the Verge: Iran's People, Iran's Pulpits Despite the tension mounting between Iran's leaders and practically everyone else--at home and abroad--Abbas Milani argues that the West should address the problem with smart diplomacy, not smart bombs. Fall 09
Restraining Order: For Strategic Modesty The world may still need a lot of help, but as Harvey Sapolsky and his colleagues argue, it's time that we divvy up some of the work among our allies. Fall 09
Spoilers: The End of the Peace Process Elliott Abrams and Michael Singh show how the Middle East peace process has been fatally misguided—and what should be done to fix it. Fall 09
The Cosmopolitan Tongue: The Universality of English This century promises the death of most of the world's languages, but John McWhorter assures us we probably won't miss them. Fall 09
The Ugly American: A Rhodes Scholar Goes South The New Republic's James Kirchick chronicles the misadventures of a bobo abroad. Fall 09
American Brethren: Hebrews and Puritans From the first Thanksgiving to The Scarlet Letter, the Puritans are well known to most Americans. But as Jim Sleeper reminds us, Cotton Mather and his tribe took more than one of their strokes from the ancient Hebrews—and the influence lives on. Fall 09
Talibanistan: The Talibs at Home If you think the Talibs aren't the rainmakers in AfPak these days, try to collect a measly debt--much less win a war--without them. Journalist Nicholas Schmidle did (and he still hasn't heard from Western Union).
The Big Story: Our Embattled Media News coverage of the Iraq War will be studied by future journalists and officers alike. ABC's Marcus Wilford offers an initial assessment of what worked--and what didn't.

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